rength terribly. He seemed sinking, and said, 'I
will not live to see my parents again.' I said, 'You will, if
you trust in God, and if it is His will.' When we came to see
lights of the Irish coast we felt joy and comfort. Arrived in
Londonderry he had scarcely any strength to stand. When
Newtownstewart was reached his relations and I knew each other
by our troubled and anxious faces."

His sister wrote that on the last two occasions that his mother talked
to him of his sufferings his reply each time was, "If we suffer with Him
(Jesus), we shall reign with Him." Again, he said he left himself in the
hands of his Lord, to take him or leave him as He pleased. He breathed
his last in the arms of his brother John, on Friday, the 5th of June, at
10.30 p.m. The end was so peaceful that they could not tell when the
last breath was drawn.

The funeral took place on Monday, the 8th, when the long procession of
vehicles, some forty or fifty in number, bore testimony to the love and
respect with which he was regarded in his own neighbourhood. Next after
the chief mourners walked Samuel Carrigan and young M'Causland, two deaf
mutes who loved and honoured him. Many others would have been present
also, had it been in their power, for Robert had the love and regard of
all the deaf and dumb who knew him.

_Copy of a letter given to R. S. Lyons on leaving America, by Dr.
Gallaudet, President of the College:--_

National Deaf Mute College, Kendal Green,
Near Washington.

MY DEAR ROBERT,--I want to give you more than a mere "good-bye"
in words, as you take your leave of us. I want to tell you how
much I have been pleased with your course here as a student,
how gratified I have been to see your pleasantness in your
work, and how thoroughly you have won my respect and esteem;
and then want to add that your patience and cheerfulness under
the heavy cross of extreme illness has made you seem a real
hero. It is an added pleasure to think that this heroism is of
that sort which those sons of men alone exhibit who are filled
with the spirit of our good and glorious leader, Christ. I
believe, dear Robert, that you have that spirit, truly and
fully, and I am sure it will sustain you in all future work. As
you go far away over the ocean to your home, to your loved
ones, and to that work which God will give you to do, my
p