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ed members, lie enjoyed a large share of the public patron- 

 age ; and his devoted attention at the bed-sides of his 

 patients, and the uniform kindness and gentleness which, 

 characterized his treatment of them, would in time have 

 assuredly gained him an extensive practice. A constitu- 

 tion naturally delicate, and ardent devotion to his scientific 

 and professional pursuits, conspired to invite and hasten 

 the inroads of disease ;but, unwilling to abandon his cher- 

 ished fields of usefulness and study, he held out to the last, 

 and worked until the night had come. He then resigned 

 himself meekly to the will of God. His sufferings at times 

 were very severe ; but he bore them with resignation ; and 

 his end was peace. He was a member of the Church 

 of England ; and was cheered by the prayers of its Priests, 

 and received at their hands the Holy Communion shortly 

 before his last hour came. He leaves behind him a young 

 wife, to whom he had been married scarcely a year,, and an 

 infant daughter. It were vain in us to attempt to con- 

 sole them under their sad bereavement. But God tempers 

 the wind to the shorn lamb. The husband and the father 

 is not lost, but gone before. He cannot return to us ; but 

 if we strive, and watch and pray, we shall assuredly go 

 to him : — 



" ' Tis sweet, as year by year we lose 

 Friends out of sight, in faith to muse 

 How grows in Paradise our store. 



" Then pass ye mourners cheerly on, 

 Through prayer unto the tomb, 

 Still, as ye watch life's falling leaf, 

 Gathering from every loss and grief 

 Hope of new spring and endless home." 



Dr. Barnston's remains were interred on the Monday 

 following his decease. The Principal, many of the Profes- 

 sors and Students of McGill College, the Dean and a large 

 number of the Medical Faculty, and a great concourse of 

 friends, followed him to the grave. He sleeps in a quiet 

 nook in our new Cemetery — on the side of that Mountain 

 he has so often traversed, in order to gather fresh specimens 

 of plants and flowers, to illustrate and adorn the science 

 he loved so well. a. n. r. 



