Memoir of the Chisholm

PROMOTES EDUCATION, &C. 83
their care, a note is found, subjoined to the
advertisement from the Clerk of Supply for
Schoolmasters at those places, in which the
Ohisholm intimates his intention of giving, in
addition to his legal assessment, a gratuity of
twelve pounds ten shillings to each school-
master, at the annual examination of their
respective pupils, — provided that he were
formally satisfied with their general conduct,
and with their attention, particularly to the
religious instruction of the children 2 .
Upon the necessity and vital importance of
a religious education, the Ohisholm always
held but one opinion, a deeply-rooted and
sincere conviction, that this process of train-
ing the young mind in the knowledge and
practice of Christian truth, was the only
means by which, through God's blessing,
any one who had been received into the con-
gregation of Christ's flock in Baptism, could
be enabled to meet the high and holy require-
ments to which he was thereby made subject.
It was a matter in which he felt, that, as a
Christian, he had no choice. For he con-
sidered, that, on the one hand, the ignorance
2 Inverness Journal, November 28th, 1834.
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