196 ADVENTURES IN THE SOUTH SEAS 
him with awe and amazement. The four-roomed cottage 
was a palace in comparison with anything he had ever 
seen. 
“A piece of bread was examined cautiously and thor- © 
oughly, and then tasted, found very good, and devoured. 
“A few Bible pictures gave him his first glimmerings of 
spiritual truth, and he went away excited and happy, to 
return almost daily. Gradually, as he grew accustomed 
to our surroundings and took them as a matter of course, 
he began to think more of the news we told him. He learned 
the ten commandments in his own language, and fourteen 
gospel texts; and soon the thought of the wonderful God- 
Man who died for his sins and rose again, became a great 
reality to him. 
“One day he came up beaming to tell of a dream. He 
said that as he slept, he saw the Lord in the porch of our 
little church. His body was very bright and shining, and 
His feet did not touch the ground, but were above it in 
the air. He was running away in fear, when one of the 
Christians said, ‘Don’t be afraid; that is our Master.’ And 
he turned to go back to Him, and He was gone. Fotewane 
fully believed that he had seen a vision of the Lord, and 
his eyes glistened as he said: 
~“*T want to go to Him. Is there any ship that can take 
me? I do not mind how far away His country is. Can’t 
you put me on a ship so that I can go? I do trust Him, 
I do love Him, and I want to go to Him.’ 
“So I told him the old story of the ascension into heaven, 
and of the angels who told the disciples that He would 
come back again some day in the same way as He went. 
And I told him how we are all waiting for that coming. 
He is near us now, and He guards us and hears our prayers, 
and His Spirit teaches us, but by and by we shall see Him 
and be like Him. I told him his face would shine, too, and 
his poor little body would be tall and straight and strong. 
And I told him that if he dies before that coming, it will 
