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bring them to God was his chief delight. "Are we not," he 

 writes, " most happy when we are doing good ? Are we not 

 truly happy in the hope of teaching the children what may lead 

 them nearer to the happiness of heaven ? And are we not 

 happy in exchanging with them that love which savours of the 

 spirit of Christ ? . . . What if the children are sometimes im- 

 patient and discontented ? Are we never to endeavour to 

 follow Him, who was 6 firm, yet mild ' ? I speak my own narrow 

 experience when I say that, when the children are most trouble- 

 some, it is because I have not sufficiently walked with them in 

 the spirit of love." He concludes with expressing his gratitude 

 for all the kindness he had experienced from his fellow 

 teachers. 



In October, 1836, his brother William was entering his last 

 session at Edinburgh, and it was resolved that Philip should 

 accompany him, that he might benefit by the great advantages 

 which that university offered to a lover of science : and it was 

 felt to be a good thing that the two brothers, who had many of 

 the same tastes and pursuits, should be together. His mother 

 writes : " Philip has been everything to us, and exceedingly 

 beloved by every one, as well as a great cheerer of our grave 

 circle by his cheerfulness." His sisters were then working hard 

 at an exhausting profession — that from which home seems no 

 refuge ; for in a boarding-school the responsibility is always 

 pressing— and his lively, sportive ways, as well as his ready 

 helpfulness and sympathy, made his company very refreshing 

 to them. Their letters show in how many ways he was missed. 



