Amherst,  S.J.,  then  in  charge  of  the  church  at  Gala-
shiels.  After  he  had  left  the  Bellerophon  he  had
a  talk  with  Father  Amherst  about  his  vocation,  in
which  the  latter  at  first  took  the  same  view  as  that  of
Schoinberg's  other  friends,  who  saw  the  good  he  was
able  to  do  in  his  profession.
"When  Schomberg  first  spoke  to  me  about  joining
the  Society  of  Jesus,"  says  Father  Amherst,  "  we  were
walking  on  the  road  to  Galashiels ;  he  did  not  speak  of
it  as  a  thing  settled.  I  am  sure  of  this,  because  if  he
had  done  so  I  should  not  have  taken  the  line  I  did  in
speaking  to  him.  He  was  so  fine  an  example  of  a

1  Letter  from  Admiral  Beaumont  to  Mrs.  Maxwell  Scott.
