AMONG CANNIBALS ON FOTUNA 99 
But in the midst of this sorrow new evidences of the power 
of the gospel were afforded the lonely missionary. Fifty 
men cut off their hair, and thus declared themselves finished 
with their savagery. More and more the people were de- 
sirous of being clothed, and still more did they manifest an 
interest in learning. 
At last, broken in health, and with all that he held dearest 
in the world left behind him on Fotuna, Mr. Copeland re- 
turned to Australia. His labors had proved Fotuna to be a 
hard place, where savagery was hard to break. No church 
had as yet been formed. Not even one person had been bap- 
tized. Indeed, no one had as yet come so far from dark 
heathenism as to be ready for baptism. “But the backbone 
of heathenism had been broken. . . . The seed sown with 
many tears was yet to bear fruit.” Those interested in the 
mission were to learn the truth of that promise which assures 
the missionary who lives and labors in these dark lands, that 
what one sows, another shall reap with great joyfulness. 
