He wanted to return to his people and tell them in their own tongue the Gospel which he had found so beautiful.
The London committee meditated on his request, and before they arrived at a conclusion his mother died, having at the last moment made a tardy submission to the Church she had denied.

Her apostasy--so the missionaries called it--confirmed the resolution of her son, and the committee at length agreed to allow him to return to his native village as the first Rector of the newly-created parish of Carrowkeel.

He was provided with all that seemed necessary to insure the success of his work.

They built him a gray house, low and strong, for it had to withstand the gales which swept in from the Atlantic.

They bought him a field where a cow could graze, and an acre of bog to cut turf from.