Many of the people came several miles to welcome them, and crowds escorted them into the city.

"Nine years ago," says Mr.Wheeler, "I made my first visit here in company with brother Dunmore, and we were hooted at, stoned, and at last driven from our room, in the pouring rain and splashing mud of a dark night." Now, every house seemed open to receive them.
"Their new place for Protestant worship testified to the remarkable change.

The men had brought all the timber, by hand, a distance of from three to five miles, and it sometimes required thirty men to bring one piece.

Women and children brought water, earth, and stones; and women were still busy in plastering the walls, so that a meeting might be held there before we left!"[1] [1] _Missionary Herald_, 1867, p.

108.
The foreign missionary spirit was being developed.