At Bhamdun, the summer residence for the brethren of the Beirut station, there were a number of decided Protestants, who declared that they found persons to sympathize with them wherever they went.

Even in Zahleh, the hot-bed of fanaticism, there were men who openly argued from the Gospel against the prevailing errors.

Mr.Smith wrote of a village on Mount Hermon, that sixty men were known to be standing ready to follow the example of Hasbeiya, as soon as the Protestants in that place had made good their position.

He also declared the movement in Hasbeiya the beginning of what would doubtless have been a great revolution, had persecution been delayed.
Mr.Lanneau's health constrained him to retire from the field in 1846.

In the same year, Dr.Van Dyck, having acquired an extraordinary facility in the use of the Arabic language, was ordained to the work of the Gospel ministry..