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About the same time, a Mr. B. had sent for a New Testament advertised in Dupuis Brothers catalogue. On receipt of this he found that it contained an address to which one could write, asking questions about this book and its teaching. The community gathered together and decided that it would be a good idea to send for a French-speaking minister to come to preach to them, seeing as they could not have their church where they wanted it. An advertisement was printed in ''Le Soleil'', the French newspaper of Quebec City, asking for a Protestant minister who could speak French.

The first Sunday they were there, Mr. Spreeman preached in the little Catholic chapel and all the community gathered to hear these English ministers who spoke French and who were going to teach them what they had read in this New Testament. His subject was that of the much-adored Virgin Mary of the Catholic church. This being a very tender spot to the Catholics, many went home feeling he had spoken against the one thing that would get them into Heaven. Others were quite taken with what they heard but could not consider accepting him or his teaching because he did not make the sign of the cross. Others, pretending to be quite in favour in their presence, gathered their children around them on arrival home and went through the beads that they might not lose sight of the fact that salvation came, as they believed, through the Virgin Mary.

The following summer, 1934, several were baptized and a small group of ten or twelve gathered to remember the Lord in the breaking of bread. The assembly had officially begun.