The officer of the Emir Beshir, finding in his hands a testimonial from Mr.Smith, that he was a Christian, respected him in this character, while he was seizing all his Druze neighbors for soldiers; but he had not then been admitted to the church, for want of sufficient evidence of true conversion.
Kasim was at length apprehended by the governor of Beirut, beaten to make him confess that he was a Moslem, and cast into prison.

Mr.
Smith visited him, and urged him to make the profession he intended to abide by, that the mission might know what to do.

In the presence of a dozen Moslems, he professed himself a Christian, and declared that he would die a Christian, if they burned him at the stake.

The governor, on hearing this, ordered him to be thrust into the inner prison, and loaded with chains.

Here his persecutors renewed their promises and threats, but his firmness remained unshaken, and they left him in prison.