The cause was greatly advanced by the labors of an earnest and devoted Bible-woman, whom the women of Bansko helped to support.
[1] See _Missionary Herald_, 1871, p.

53.
Bansko will have the ecclesiastical distinction, hereafter, of being the place where the first evangelical Bulgarian church was formed, and fully organized.

This was in August, 1871.

The candidates were fifteen, nine men, and six women.

In accordance with a written invitation from the people, Messrs.