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The movement spread rapidly thanks to the untiring efforts of its “apostle” ''par excellence'', [[John Nelson Darby]]. In England and throughout Europe, Darby built up the movement through his preaching and voluminous writings. French-speaking Switzerland <sup> </sup>was an object of his particular attention. Even today, there is to be found there a significant concentration of brethren who seek to practice the same New Testament principles.
Canada was not neglected. Swiss and English immigrants brought the movement to these shores in the middle of the nineteenth century. Darby himself visited North America no less than six times beginning in 1862 and consecrated a good deal of his time to Canada. Thanks to his efforts, by 1878 there were more than one-hundred local New Testament assemblies of believers throughout the Dominionof Canada. Of course, as far as we know, these were all English assemblies.
==French work==