Sketches from Formosa.

MEMORIALS OF SOME WHO HAVE GONE BEFORE 373
words, although holding no office in the Evangelistic or
Educational branches of the work, he acted faithfully
for many years by carr ying letters, books, and sums of
money
over our wide field at a time when there was no
Postal service in Formosa ; and St. Paul's Epistles show
what an important place is given to those brethren who
rendered such service to the Church. Others besides
Ka-pau were also called to be our messengers elsewhere,
but we were occasionally placed at a disadvantage when
reports reached us of their letters having miscarried,
or sums of money they carried having failed to reach
their destination. It was never so with Ka-pau, whose
duties took him over the six days' journey from Tainan to
Lai-sia. He was always up to time, always full of good
humour, and always very exact in carrying out the little
commissions with which he was entrusted. Our friend
was baptized on 24th March, 1872, when he was 44 years
of age, acted as Deacon to the Lai-sia congregation for
more than ten years, and died on igth August, 1887.
Even yet, the brethren have a very kindly remembrance
of Brother Ka-pau.
9. REV. W. THOW. Soon after his graduation at Aberdeen
University, Mr. Thow joined the English Presbyterian
Mission, and arrived in Formosa on 20th of November,
1880. At the close of one furlough in the Homeland, he
returned to his post, and died at Tainan on 24th June,
1894.
Mr. Thow was both a capable and a most helpful
fellow-worker, and perhaps I cannot do better here than
copy out the notice which was inserted in our Minutes
when he was called away to be with Him whom he had
loved and served. It runs thus :
" In entering upon our Minutes a note of the death of
Mr. Thow, we desire at the same time to record our sense
of the great loss which, as individuals and as a Mission,