The number of disciples was large.

They had a large amount of wealth at their disposal, and were not averse to using it to promote the advancement of the cause.

But the children of this world are, in their generation, wiser than the children of light, and there is a certain practical wisdom that has been abundantly learned by other religious communities that has only come to our churches through a sore and bitter experience; and it was through the fire of this experience they were passing at the time of which we write.

"Billy Brown" had been a notable evangelist among them.

Indeed, he had been the father in the gospel of the churches in Brown and Schuyler Counties.