What seemed to crown with God's favor, Shiblon's determination to serve the Lord completely, was Shiblon's fixed conclusion to walk undaunted in the path of duty and fidelity to his Maker even though it might cost him all that was near and dear to him. Imprisonment could not deter him in the fulfillment of his commitment to declare the Word of the Lord; and when stoned because of his testimony of Christ, he bore all obloquy with patience and never, in spite of threats, retracted his words. When Shiblon's mission among the apostate Zoramites was ended, and he, in retrospect, viewed again the scenes of his travail among them, he rendered thanks unto God, his Preserver, for he knew that no power but the Lord's kept and delivered him from the hatred of such blood-thirsty men as those who had forsaken the truth, and now were seeking to destroy the Church of God.