Winning the Wild Rewans 
THE spirit with which all this work was wrought is re- 
vealed in the words of John Hunt as he was leaving Rewa 
to begin work for God in Somo Somo. Facing the perils 
of that great undertaking, he said: “The difficulty of leav- 
ing Rewa and going to Somo Somo only affected us as men; 
as missionaries, we thought nothing of the privations or trials 
we might have to endure. We expect to sow in tears as con- 
fidently as we hope to reap in joy; and therefore trials and 
privations are words seldom used by us, and things that are 
thought much more of by our dear friends at home than by 
ourselves.” 
The king at Rewa was well disposed toward the worship, 
but his brother, Ratu Nggara, hated Christianity with bit- 
ter hatred, and resolutely opposed all that the missionaries 
did. The king promised that a chapel would be built, but 
because of his brother’s opposition, this promise was not 
kept. Services were therefore held in the open air, but both 
preacher and congregation were often pelted with stones. 
On one occasion, as a number of the people were being 
instructed, several muskets were discharged through the thin 
reed walls of the house in which they were, but God’s pro- 
tection was about both teacher and people, and none of them 
were injured. Amid constant dangers and ever-present perils 
the missionaries labored on, and though often in a state of 
alarm, their hearts were encouraged by seeing the number 
of Christians steadily increased. The heathen, however, 
were becoming more and more daring in their opposition 
to the mission, and sometimes the missionaries were com- 
pelled to view the horrors of cannibal feasting, for the feasts 
were brought right to their doors. 
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