It must have been pleasant to Livingstone in after-years to recall the circumstance when he became a friend and correspondent of the Bishop of Oxford.
[Footnote 16: _Life of Bishop Wilberforce_, vol.i, p.

160.] Notwithstanding the dear postage of the time, Livingstone wrote regularly to his friends, but few of his letters have survived.

One of the few, dated 5th May, 1839, is addressed to his sister, and in it he says that there had been some intention of sending him abroad at once, but that he was very desirous of getting more education.

The letter contains very little news, but is full of the most devout aspirations for himself and exhortations to his sister.

Alluding to the remark of a friend that they should seek to be "uncommon Christians, that is, eminently holy and devoted servants of the Most High," he urges: "Let us seek--and with the conviction that we cannot do without it--that all selfishness be extirpated, pride banished, unbelief driven from the mind, every idol dethroned, and everything hostile to holiness and opposed to the divine will crucified; that 'holiness to the Lord' may be engraven on the heart, and evermore characterize our whole conduct.