XX MEMOIR more a stranger in a strange land, with broken health, with little or no means beyond what lay in his own powers, and with a family dependent on his exertions. His confidence in God as the Father, however, never failed him, and was shortly to be amply justified. At the request of the proprietor of the hotel in which he lodged he consented to take a Sunday afternoon service. The attendance at this on the first day of meeting numbered some half-dozen persons. By the third Sunday the congregation was so large that it had overflowed into the passages and down the stairs. Friends speedily gathered round him. The want of a church for the Scottish residents of, and visitors to, Torquay was specifically felt and formulated; a site was given, funds were collected, and a graceful church, dedicated to St. Andrew, shortly stood in the centre of the pleasure-gardens. Here, once more, Dr. Edersheim’s influence as a preacher was widely felt and acknowledged, and here for some years he continued working and giving of his best for the service of God. Here also it was that he lost his first wife, who left him seven daughters and one son, and that he subsequently married Sophia, youngest daughter of the late Admiral John Hancock, C.B.