Memoir of the Chisholm

WITH HIS MOTHER. 157
when we rise up,' ' to our children 1 also, and
to our friends.
" Begin this gradually, and ask God for His
blessing ; it will not only tend to create a
feeling of affection and mutual confidence,
such as ought to exist between a parent and
a child, but it will induce meditation in your-
self and her, for we cannot speak easily of that
we do not often think of : and, besides, it is a
positive duty to take all the care you can that
she knows the real truth, and that you are
yourself able to set it before her : and you
should often and regularly pray together alone.
May God Almighty bless you, my dearest
mother, and her.
" In haste, your ever dutiful son,
" Alexander W. Ohisholm."
The next extract is one of the many evi-
dences which are to be found throughout his
letters, of the pleasure he felt in keeping up
the friendships he had formed at Eton.
June 3rd, 1836.
" I am going down to Eton to-morrow
(Saturday), the 4th of June, to stay with
Coleridge. There is no house on Saturdays."