Sketches from Formosa.

MEMORIALS OF SOME WHO HAVE GONE BEFORE 367
unexpectedly come in upon them at a meal-time, to find
that his object was to have a little quiet talk with them
about some servant whose ideas of rule and order were
a little less strict than theirs, and who had carried his
grievances to the worthy Elder. He himself was very
forbearing and gentle. Only once in the course of six
years' constant intercourse did the writer see Bun
thoroughly vexed and angry. Our brother was earnestly
addressing an audience in the Taiwan-fu chapel when a
man quietly leant over the table and gave him a violent
blow on the chest. The mean way in which the blow
was dealt nettled the old man, and some of the friendly
bystanders having seized the offender, he was held in
rather a firm grasp till the missionary was sent for.
On Bun himself being quietly appealed to, however, as to
what course was most likely to advance the Lord's Cause,
he at once calmed down and willingly consented that,
with a word of caution, the man should be dismissed.
The man had meanwhile become rather ashamed of his
conduct, and promised not to repeat it.
When Elder Bun left Formosa, the well-thumbed
Testament which he had so often used in chapel was given
to Mr. Campbell as a parting remembrance. It is before
me as I write, and I see that underneath Mr. Campbell's
name he has indicated two texts, 2 Cor. i. 8-n, and
2 Cor. xii.
9. If the reader will take the trouble
to consult them, and call to mind the very marvellous
deliverance from " so great a death " and " in Asia"
which Mr. Campbell had just experienced, he will realize
the aptness of the old Elder's choice of the first text, and
the preciousness also of its union with the second.
There are many in Formosa, and two or three in England,
to whom the remembrance of Elder Bun will ever
be as a sweet savour of Christ, and there are not a few
some already gone up higher, and more still living who