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he di seribed in the words of one who kindly shared in 

 this and in all the other anxieties of that time. 



' I shall, as requested, endeavour to give you in this 

 letter a few particulars of the journey home from Hye 

 made by the Principal and his family in May 1868. It 

 throughout a most remarkable one. Of those who 

 witnessed our departure from Hyeres, there were, I 

 am sure, few who anticipated that both invalids for 

 his eldest daughter was also suffering from long-con- 

 tinued and dangerous illness would reach England in 

 life : and fewer still, who had the slightest expectation 

 that in little more than a week we should have ac- 

 compli si ud the journey in safety. But so it was ; and 

 1 believe that our doing so was in a great degree owing 

 to the inn-use desire which the Principal had to be 

 once more, and as soon as possible, within reach of 

 I h\ Symonds, of Clifton. The distance from Hyeres to 

 the station is about five miles. This part of the journey 

 he had to perform in an omnibus and over a rough road, 

 and this, in his weak state, was perhaps the most anxious 

 part of all. A return of the hemorrhage was very likely 

 to occur, and had it occurred would in all probability have 

 proved fatal. So fully was he aware of this himself, that 

 the day before we started, he wrote in pencil, and placed 

 in his wile's hands a paper with clear and distinct direc- 

 tions as to how she was to act in such an event ; and 

 having done this, and feeling that he was in God's hands, 

 he quietly left himself in them. Nothing during his long- 

 suffering illness proved more completely his entire acqui- 

 escence in whatever mi^ht le ordered for him. There 

 was no shrinking fear or dread of the future. I have 

 seldom Been anyone who had the same simple and almost 

 childlike confidence that all wa> ri-lit. so long as he 

 submitted and trusted himself entirely to his heavenly 

 Father'- (hie L:iv;it les~oii \\;i^ to be learned from 



him in this: he knew what a wonderful gift of (Jod life 



lie could not but be aware of the JJTeat intellect 



which li i i/iv.-n to him ; and therefore lie did all 



in hi- p.\\vr to continue that life the least tiling whieh 



