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from this place in the opening- of the spring. 377 But I cannot communicate with you officially on that subject till the committee visit him and report to the trustees. Yours very affectionately,
EZRA FISHER. N. B.
Holy
The
Spirit
school
upon
is
now
May God
full.
pour out His
it.
E.
Received Nov.
Oregon Rev. Benjamin M. Cor. Sec.
FISHER.
14.
City,
O. Ter., Nov. 27th, 1855.
D. D., Bapt. Home Mission Society,
Am.
Hill,
New
York.
Dear Brother: Yours of Sept.
1st, containing draft No. 8650, $376.24, was here think that Br. Post has very little duly received. reason to complain respecting support. The school, according to his statement last spring, has been a paying concern
We
three weeks after he commenced teaching, sure it has paid better since that time than quite did before, if he succeeds as well in collecting as he did
ever since the
and it
I
first
am
formerly. Private.
His course with us as a board has been rather has from time to time avowed his intention to singular. an independent school about two miles from town. Last open
He
May
the
Board of Trustees met
to take into consideration
him
to meet with us. The did he not attend. committee was appointed meeting to wait on him and inquire into sundry reports which we thought unfavorable to the prosperity of the Oregon City
the state of the school and invited first
A
That he had changed the College, such as the following: his in school the of advertisements; had proposed to
name
take females as scholars, which he has since done; had privately expressed his determination to open an independent 377 This school was opened and ran for a time just outside the present southern limits of Oregon City.
