In view of the present and prospective importance of this Institution, to the interests both of the mission and the community, the Board have instructed the new Superintendent to avail himself of an early opportunity, after his arrival in Oregon, to inquire into the expediency and practicability of a re-purchase of the premises, and to transmit the result of his inquiries at his earliest convenience. They have also instructed him to use his influence, immediately upon the organization of a territorial government, for that country by the United States, to secure a charter for the Institute, containing, in substance, all the provisions embraced in the above document. It is confidently believed that the Oregon Institute, which has been struggling for existence these several years, will yet, under the fostering care of the Missionary Society, and that of the Church, be rendered a great and lasting blessing to that far off western region. Should the report of Brother Roberts concerning it be favorable, it is probable a competent teacher will soon be sent out as Principal. It is ardently hoped that this institution is destined to wield a powerful influence in molding the mind and heart of the medley mass with which the Valley of the Columbia is so rapidly filling up.
Twenty-ninth Annual Report,
Forsyth Street Church,
June 19, 1848.
OREGON MISSION. Brother Gary and his lady left Oregon in July, 1847, in the ship Brutus, for the Sandwich Islands, to which they have an unusually short voyage. On their arrival at Honolulu they were led to expect a long detention at that place for want of a passage home. But on learning that the whale ship, William Hamilton, of New Bedford, bound to the United States, had put into that port Brother Gary resolved to procure a passage in her, and made immediate application to Captain Fisher accordingly.
