356 REVEREND EZRA FISHER toral labor and personal sympathy for me and my family may perhaps sway their judgment. If there is any reasonable pros- pect of a pastor for this place soon, I am quite sure I shall be the last man to preoccupy the place. The mail must leave before I shall have time to write more. The good work of Grace has been progressing through the winter in the Shilo church under the labors mostly of Br. Davis 343 from Indiana. Clackamas 344 church had an addition of five last Sabbath by baptism. Elder Hubbard will probably settle with that church. Affectionately your afflicted brother, Received April 10, 1854. EZRA FISHER. Oregon City, O. Ter., Mar. 9th, 1854. Rev. Benjamin M. Hill, Cor. Sec. A. B. H. M. Soc. Dear Brother: Yours of Jan. 18, '54, was received by last mail. I regret to learn that the principal bill ordering goods was lost, as it will occasion some ten months' delay from this time before my family supplies will reach us, some of which are now needed. But God's ways are all right and we shall soon enough find it true. I will now proceed to order another bill as near like the other as I can by my old memorandum.
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Respectfully yours, EZRA FISHER. Oregon City, O. Ter., Mar. 10, 1854. Rev. Benjamin M. Hill, Cor. Sec. A. B. H. M. Soc. Dear Brother: Herein I send you an application for reappointment as Exploring Agent and General Itinerant for Oregon Ter., with 343 This was Rev. William M. Davis, who came to Oregon in 1853 from Indiana, and settled near Turner. Mattoon, Bap. An. of Ore., I:io. (See note 352.) 344 The Clackamas Church, about six miles north of Oregon City, was or- ganized Nov., 1853, by the author and Rev. David Hubbard. The latter was born in Kentucky in 1795, moved to Oregon in 1853, and died in 1866. Mattoon, Bap. An. of Ore., 1:14, 104.
