The story, with its singular incidents, was repeated by one and another, and money began to flow in from many sources, some ingenious play of imagination serving constantly to keep up the interest. Friends in Philadelphia said: “We often visit Burmah in imagination, and when we reach there we are tired enough to sit down; may we not rent pews in ‘Frankie’s Chapel’?” The suggestion was so reasonable, that a plan of a church was drawn, and sittings were rented rapidly. Clergymen who contributed had their names written on the platform. From Philadelphia Mrs. Vinton went to Cincinnati, where the people said to her: “Why, you have rented all your pews, and we Western people are crowded out.” So they drew a larger plan and began renting more pews. Meanwhile, a communion service, a beautifully bound pulpit Bible, a fine-toned bell, pulpit lamps and a communion table were presented by one and another in the different localities visited. In 1850 the Vintons sailed for Calcutta, with the purpose to build the chapel in Maulmain. On their arrival they found that their English friends and the Karens were as deeply interested in the welfare of “Frankie’s Chapel” as their American friends had been. An English officer sent 200 rupees, with the message, “In America they gave money to keep ‘Frankie’ warm. In view of the high state of the thermometer I send this to keep him cool.” Another sends 100 rupees “for legs for ‘Frankie’ to stand on,” alluding to the custom of building houses on posts in Burmah. Still another officer sent 1,000 rupees. It transpired, however, that an overruling Providence had greater plans for “Frankie’s Chapel” than those which had yet been conceived of by the Vintons. During the four or five years after they left America with “Frankie” there were serious troubles in Burmah, and the affairs of the country were such that they were unable to settle down permanently until 1855. At that time plans were furnished for a building much more elaborate and substantial than had been contemplated at first. A beautiful location had been selected at Kemmendine, and the land necessary made a free gift by the Governor-General of India.