Sketches from Formosa.

EDUCATION AND WORK FOR THE BLIND 255
arrangement ; its twenty-four letters being all of full-
space size, so as to conserve the Braille numeral and
punctuation signs for their original purpose, and there-
also as word-
by avoid the confusion of using those signs
symbols.
During my furlough soon after, and while visiting
some of those congregations in Scotland which for many
years have been helping our English Presbyterian
foreign mission work, an invitation reached me to address
the Glasgow Free Church Students' Missionary
Society, and I had no difficulty in readily complying ;
with the result that the handsome sum of 525 was
sent by that Society to assist our work among the sightless
17,000 people of Formosa.
On returning to my post at Taiwan-fu (now called
Tainan), our Mission Council approved of my taking
a five years' lease of rooms adjoining the Ang-kong
Memorial Hall, where we entered upon more systematic
work than had hitherto been possible. My chief
assistant during most of that time was Mr. Lim Ang,
whose mere glimmering of sight made him wholly
dependent on embossed books and the Braille method
of writing. He rendered good service while in charge
of the School, and his pupils still cherish his memory
with gratitude and affection.
A further little development took place about this
time. Miss Graham (of our Amoy Mission, and a
daughter of the late Walter Graham, M.P. for one of
the districts of Glasgow) wrote to me stating that she
was often meeting with blind people, was interested
to hear about what we were doing, and would be thank-
ful to know if we could send over some one to begin
similar work in the city of Chin-chiu. Our correspondence
resulted in my sending Mr. Lim Ang, who remained
for several months at that important centre, and gained