MEMOIR XX Under the continual exertion of preaching, and the exhaustion consequent upon it, his health, how- ever, once more gave way. A couple of winters on the Riviera, one spent at Mentone and the other at San Remo, only partially restored him; the im- patience of some of the members of his congregation followed and continually harassed him, and it was thought best that he should retire again from active work to a repose which might be utilised to God’s service in literature. In 1872, therefore, he resigned his church at Torquay, and removed to Bournemouth, where he built a villa, which he called Heniach, signifying: ‘ The Lord will give rest.’ During his years of active ministry at Torquay Dr. Edersheim had not enjoyed much leisure for writing. A small collection of hymns, mostly trans- lated from the Latin (‘The Jubilee Rhythm of St. Bernard and other Hymns’), had, indeed, appeared, as had also a devotional work entitled, ‘The Golden Diary of Heart Converse with Jesus in the Book of Psalms.” He had likewise published a series of lectures on ‘ Elisha the Prophet: his Life and Times,’ and during periods of illness had written several children’s stories, of which the best known are: