Sketches from Formosa.

MEMORIALS OF SOME WHO HAVE GONE BEFORE 375
death of Mrs. Ferguson, L.R.C.P. and S. Edin. on 17
January 1901 at the close of an illness of some weeks,
incurred while on a visit to Bak-sa. Mrs. Ferguson came
to Formosa in the year 1892, her whole term of service
thus extending to about nine years. Her speedy
acquisition of the language enabled her to enter early
upon work, in which her full medical qualifications put
her in a position to render a unique service to the Mission.
Both in the City and throughout the country she carried
on an extensive and highly valued medical work in which
her services were rendered freely to the Mission; the
Women's Missionary Association, at the request of the
Council, making a small annual grant towards defraying
the expense of the drugs employed. In accordance with
the earnest and repeated request of the Chinese, authorisation
was sent from Home for the opening of a Women's
Hospital to be carried on by Mrs. Ferguson. Owing to
various circumstances this object, to the regret of many,
was not accomplished. The result in one way was to
leave her more time for visits to out-patients, un-
grudgingly paid with no thought of self, and at all hours
of the day and night, whereby she endeared herself to the
hearts of very many in the City and neighbourhood, as
was evidenced by the sorrow so widely expressed at her
death, and the large concourse of Christians and others
who followed the funeral to the grave. The Council
return thanks to God for the services thus rendered by
her to the members of the Mission during her too brief
life amongst us ; they express their profound sympathy
with her husband and children, and with her parents and
other friends at home, praying God to give them all
needed comfort and direction."
As I happened to be on duty in the Chiang-hoa region
when Mrs. Ferguson passed away I should like here to
add my cordial endorsement to the above testimony.