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64 LIFE OF ARCHBISHOP TAIT [CH. in.
that the views of Christian truth and practice which I know you
to hold are such as I have long been, I trust, sincerely attached
to, however far short I have fallen in carrying them out."
The proposal, however, came to nothing, as it was
found that there would be the greatest difficulty in per
suading any one to undertake the work at Baldon, and
also that the duties in Balliol would clash with those in
St. Peter s.
"I look upon my College duties as paramount,
and I think
that for many reasons I should do wrong in withdrawing from
the tutorship at Balliol. For the next two terms I am positively
engaged to deliver a lecture each Sunday evening in the College
Chapel."
The beginning of the year 1838 seemed likely to be
marked by a very important change
in his life. News
reached him that the Professorship of Moral Philosophy
in his old University of Glasgow was about to be vacant,
and his friends urged him to become a candidate. The
position was one of great importance and large emolument.
But there was in the forefront a religious difficulty.
Certain subscriptions were required of the Glasgow
Professors, and among them was one expressing ad
herence to the Westminster Confession of Faith. Sir
Daniel Sandford, though son of the Bishop of Edinburgh,
and himself a decided Episcopalian, had not found in the
subscriptions any obstacle to his own tenure of the Greek
Professorship, and to him accordingly, as an old friend and
trusted counsellor, Tait wrote as follows :-
" MY
The Rev. A . C. Tait to Sir Daniel Sandford.
"BALLIOL COLLEGE, y>th Jany. 1838.
DEAR SIR DANIEL, I have lately been informed that
there is likely, at no distant period, to be a contest for the Moral