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would have cared to risk building a second time in view of the fate of the Missionary's house at the hands of Agent Norris.

In 1885 the church built at Lapwai under the treaty stipulation of 1863, was thought to be too small, the site had become inconvenient and the people were alarmed about the Langford claim, they therefore determined to raise the money and build a new and larger church and to erect it near the north line of the old Military reservation, as a site better adapted to the needs of the people who were scattering out along the creeks tributary to the Lapwai.  Their wise choice of location was defeated by the Agent, who removed the old treaty church & placed near the shops and Agent's house and it has been used ever since as a warehouse for government stores.  The Indians were constrained to erect their new church on the old site where it stands today, inconvenient and unhealthy in location.  Meanwhile their church has been without a parsonage