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236 ROBERT MOULTON GATKE

Yours in Christ,

Wm. Roberts.

P. S. I have engaged your passage in the above vessel and Mr. Holden will inform you as to time.

To the corresponding Secy of the Missy Socy of the M. E. Church.

Oregon City, April 1, 1848. REV. DR. PITMAN.

Dear Bro.: I learn a party of men intend starting for the states on the first of May and I desire to send by them [a] duplicate, or second Edition rather, of our annual report. The annual meeting of the Mission was held at the Institute on the llth & 12th instant. It was deemed proper to have the business corespond in its general arrangment with the order persued in our annual conferences so far at least as our infant state would allow. The examination of Character, the re- spective claims of the Missionary, Bible, Sunday School, and Temperance Societies with the interests of Education. Reports of numbers in Societies togather with the extension of our work and appointment of our scanty labourers to their re- spective fields of labour ocupied two days of close and diligent attention. Nor were our religious services without their interest. It was a season of great spiritual profit and up to this moment all is harmony and peace. There are eight per- sons in the employ of the Mission including those sent by the board and four others employed by the Superintendent to do regular pastoral work. I might add a ninth which is a young man of promise living in my family and employ'd partly as an assistant in travelling and partly with a view to direct pastoral labour. David Leslie resides in this city. His family con- sists of five persons, Himself, wife, and three children one over 14 one under 14 and over 7, and another under 7 years of age. He has charge of the pulpit here and sometimes preaches in the village of Clackamas 2 miles distant ; But the laps of years makes it almost imposible for him to travel and he claims to be almost Supernumerary. We have here 47 members in Society and 1 Sabbath School with nine officers and teachers. 60 scholars and 150 volumes in the Library.

James H. Wilber lives at the Oregon Institute 4 and has charge of the Salem circuit. His family consists of himself, wife and daughter. There is on the same circuit and living

4 Located at what is now Salem.