Sketches from Formosa.

Ill
BROUGHT INTO A WEALTHY PLACE
I FEEL deeply thankful for being able to say that I have
just had the great privilege of dispensing the Sacraments
in the city and at our four hill-stations.
At Taiwan-fu two men and two women were added to
the number of Christ's professing people. They had
been hearers of the Gospel for nearly two years, and
such evidence of their knowledge and behaviour was
given that the Session cordially approved of Elder Bun's
proposal to admit them.
Brother la was formerly a wicked man, persecuting
God's people and revelling in every form of evil. He has
now brought no small trouble upon himself by refusing
to open his shop for trading on Sunday. His neighbours
have annoyed him, but he manifests a spirit of meek
forbearance. He has made considerable progress in the
knowledge of Christian doctrine. Ong Kia is a much
younger man a native of Chin-chiu and was brought
under religious impression through the preaching of
Mr. Douglas of the Amoy Mission, although he could not
say it was during his residence on the mainland that he
was led into the enjoyment of spiritual peace. He has
been under our eye for more than a year ; and what we
have seen of him, especially during the past six months,
is all in his favour and constrains us to believe in the
sincerity of his profession. He is an intelligent reader
of the Bible in Chinese characters, and a man who may
yet become most useful in the Church.
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