Ezra Hall Gillett quotes:

The closing period of the fifteenth century witnessed the slow but sure increase of the churches of the Brethren. Although far from being unmolested, they yet enjoyed comparative rest. At the commencement of the sixteenth century their churches numbered two hundred in Bohemia and Moravia.

We are always looking to the future; the present does not satisfy us. Our ideal, whatever it may be, lies further on.