160 OBITUARY NOTICE.-EEV. GEORGE GUNN 



And a marked feature in his character was his unselfishness. 

 He would go out of his way to serve another, not thinking 

 of his own convenience, sparing himself no pains or trouble, 

 if he could oblige or gratify another in any way. He might 

 be busy, or he might be tired, but he was always ready to 

 do for a friend what he would not have taken the trouble 

 to do for himself. At the meetings of the Club he was a 

 delightful companion, intelligent, genial, humorous, anxious 

 that every meeting might be a success, and contributing 

 much by his own presence to make it so. The Club has 

 lost one who was not ouly an efficient and devoted Secretary, 

 but one whose influence went far in the direction of binding 

 it together, both as a scientific society and as a brotherhood 

 of friends. There could be only one feeling among its 

 members when the announcement of his death was made, 

 a universal feeling of regret, joined in the case of many to 

 the pain of a genuine sorrow. To the great majority it 

 came as a surprise. He had been working up to within 

 little more than two months of his death, and those who 

 had heard of his illness had little reason to apprehend that 

 it would terminate fatally. He had fallen, however, into 

 such a state of weakness from inability to take nourishment 

 that, though more favourable symptoms appeared towards 

 the end, he was unable to rally. His thoughts during his 

 last days were much occupied with the affairs of the Club, 

 and with his parish and his friends. He died as he had 

 lived, thinking of others. Desiderandus quidem i^iteriit, sed 

 non lugendus. He had led a true, useful, honourable, God- 

 fearing life, and he has left a fragrant memory behind him 

 that will long be cherished by all who knew him. 



