No Protestant community had been formed, and in those days of fierce opposition very few were ready to face the consequences of an open acknowledgment of what they were convinced was the truth.

But he found all this passed away, on his visit there in 1866.

There was then a church of fifty members, and a Protestant community of one hundred and fifty, chiefly young men of enterprise, and a Sabbath congregation of one hundred and fifty.

They had a beautiful house of worship, a prosperous day-school, and an excellent native pastor.

There were many whose beards made them venerable.