Their prejudices and narrow dislikes, their raw vanity and sullen distrust of all who were better schooled than they, count for little when weighed against their intense earnestness and heroic self-sacrifice.

They proved their truth by their endeavor.

They yielded scores of martyrs, nameless and unknown men who perished at the hands of the savages, or by sickness or in flood or storm.

They had to face no little danger from the white inhabitants themselves.

In some of the communities most of the men might heartily support them, but in others, where the vicious and lawless elements were in control, they were in constant danger of mobs.