Tainan
Council Minutes, August 1, 1894.
Revs. Campbell and Barclay； Mr.Ede.
1. The Minute
regarding Mr. Thow which was agreed to at last meeting is as
follows；---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 both as individuals and as a mission we have
sustained in his removal from among us. Mr. Thow arrived in
Formosa in November 1880, his term of service thus extending o
thirteen-and-a-half years. None who laboured with him during
that time, whether Chinese or Foreigner, could fail to be
impressed with the entire single-heartedness of his character in
relation to God and man； with his willing consecration to his
Saviour, and his wholehearted devotion to the work to which from
his youth he had given himself. While qualified by his gifts and
attainments to undertake any part of our Mission work, his
memory will probably be mostly associated with his self-denying
labour in the country among our various congregations. There he
visited with ceaseless diligence, often with much personal
discomfort, performing among them with loving firmness the
duties of a faithful Pastor, and longing and praying for the
development in them of a higher type of Christian life and
character. He laid much stress also on the duty of preaching the
Gospel to the heathen, in which connection he prepared sheet
tract on Saving Truth, which has already been distributed in
tens of thousands throughout the Island. We desire to express
our sympathy with his relatives in their sudden bereavement at a
time when we were looking for many years of increasing
usefulness from him. Especially do we sympathize with his
Parents in this deep sorrow, asking for them at tis time the
consolation of the God of all comfort, that they may find peace
in looking back over the record of the noble life now ended, and
looking forward in sure hope of a glorious resurrection.
《台灣府城教會報》第115卷，1894年10月）
數念涂牧師
編輯室
（Ti7下底所記hit幾句是對傳道先生兩人e5批引起。）
今仔日我接來這張公批，內中是講起涂牧師（涂為霖，Rev.William
Thow）過往e5情形。人聽見這號e5消息真thang憂悶，因為教會有失落1支手骨。今koh較thang憂悶e5，是ti7這世間無koh
thang看見先生e5面。想到伊ti7這二月間kap我ti7
chia相kap講話，教示我e5言語，kap相kap去探hhoe7兄弟，chiah
e5事情，甚至到流目屎，無thang
koh受先生這號e5痛疼。
總是我知先生平生有出力著磨服事主，無嫌厭，才今仔日咱e5主疼伊。先接納伊去得著hit號永遠無窮盡e5福氣。這時ti7主e5身邊，ti7
hia享受平安快樂；m7使ko有嘴礁、枵、sian7
e5艱苦。因為伊已經離世間，因為主e5道理盡力跑走，來盡伊所應該行e5路站。Gau5審判e5主ti7這時自然有賞賜伊義e5報賞，親像戴冕旒，這m7但
beh賞賜伊，也beh賞賜凡若欣慕主顯明tu3現e5人。
今我若會盡本份，學先生做盡忠e5好模樣，主ti7
hit時也beh賞賜我ti7伊身邊相kap得著這齊備e5福氣，是我所teh向望e5。
論到涂牧師e5過往，我有時家己teh坐，想著伊e5好交陪，be7禁tit幾若擺著流目屎，是伊e5疼我常常感動我e5心肝。有時koh提伊寄hou7我e5批來看就koh較傷心。
