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CORRESPONDENCE 163 Board, although I am unprepared to say how much till I visit the place and see for myself. He is pious, modest, studious and unassuming and wishes to know nothing else among the people but Jesus Christ and Him crucified. He wants no land claim, if he can live as a minister and avoid it and be honest. He tells me the church proposed; to ask the Board to appropriate $500 to his support, but he persuaded them to ask for but $400. Should this little church build the coming year, probably that sum should be appropriated to him. $700 is a small salary for a man in that place and I think in a very few years the church will be able to sustain their own minister entirely. Respectfully yours, EZRA FISHER, Exploring Agent. N. B. The church at Marysville needs immediate atten- tion. They are able to support a minister, if they fully understood the value of the ministry. But they are young members, mostly from the western states. Yet they have paid Br. Stevens during the last nine months. One brother told me two months ago that he had paid him in money and otherwise $209 and he still expected to help him. The same brother told me that he had paid the past year over $500 for building their meeting house and supporting the ministry. Another brother told me he had paid Br. Stevens $140 since last October. Yours EZRA FISHER. Received July 30, 1853. (Continued from Page 480 in Quarterly for December, 1016.)