The poor man received his food daily from his missionary friend, with messages of cheer, and he never wavered.
On the arrival of the Pasha, the prisoner's wife immediately sought access to him, and this she did day after day; but the governor of Beirut threw every obstacle in her way.

The Pasha wished to set him free, without seeming to yield to Frank dictation, or stirring up Moslem fanaticism.

At length the governor, threatened by the agent of the European consuls with deposition, presented himself in person at the door of the prison, and told Kasim to go free.
Thus terminated, after an imprisonment of seventeen days, the first case of a converted Druze called to confess Jesus Christ before a Moslem tribunal.

This was in the early part of the year 1836.
Kasim was kept by the mission two years on probation, but on the first Sabbath in 1838 he and his wife were admitted to the church, and were baptized, with their six children, receiving Christian names at their own request.

Mr.Thomson took occasion to preach on the subject of baptism, explaining the true meaning and intention of the ordinance.