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364 CHARLES HENRY CAREY

Willamette Falls, 25, and one local preacher, East Willamette, 66, and six local preachers, West Willamette, 40, and seven local preachers.

To this must be added the three white members at the Dalls; making in all a membership of 148. From forty to fifty of these have experienced religion in Oregon, and are to be reckoned as part of the fruit of our missionary labors in that country ; and we are warranted in the hope that a still greater number have already passed to their rest in heaven.

In view of these facts, and taking into account the priceless value of an immortal spirit, who will dare to pronounce the Oregon Mission a failure?