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was love, peace and harmony and the prospects were brightening before them.

The farm, which had been brought under cultivation and well stocked with cattle, was becoming very produc- tive, furnishing the mission family with abundance as the reward of their labors, and the school consisting of upwards of thirty children, was exerting a most salutary influence on the children themselves, and on the sur- rounding community.

Though it makes no part of the object of the society to found a colony in that region of the country, but simply to send the blessings of the Gospel to those who are or may be there, yet we doubt not that this mission will contribute greatly to build up a Christian colony in the Oregon territory, which will tell favorably on the future destinies of its inhabitants.

Twenty-second Anniversary, Broadway Tabernacle, May 24, 1841.

OREGON MISSION. The Rev. Jason Lee is still the superintendent of the mission, assisted by his nephew, Rev. Daniel Lee, and other missionaries, who are now spreading themselves abroad through that interesting country on the shores of the Pacific Ocean and diligently laboring to plant the Gospel literally upon these ends of the earth. The expedition named in our last report, which accompanied Brother Lee on his return voyage to his field of labor, arrived in safety and found the work of God prospering among the Indians to such an extent that greatly cheered them in entering upon this distant field. Five hundred Indians have been converted during a single revival, and at a camp meeting which was subse- quently held, upward of a thousand of these sons of the forest were assembled for divine worship, all of whom have become humble and devout worshippers, renouncing heathenism and embracing Christianity. Including the reinforcements furnished by the last expedition, there