XV1 MEMOIR ministry was greatly blessed. In six months’ time a regular congregation had gathered round him, and shortly a pretty church and ‘manse’ were built. But now a great longing for work among the Jews came upon him. His task in that part of Scotland seemed accomplished, and he believed that he recog- nised God’s call elsewhere. Accordingly he resigned his Scottish post, and travelling through France, Italy, and Greece, he reached Constantinople, from whence he proceeded to Roumania. Here he remained for upwards of a year, teaching and preaching to Jews and Germans in and about Jassy in connection with a Scottish mission there established. Here also he met with Mary Broomfield—one who, like himself, was deeply interested in mission-work, and a woman of large and refined intellect. On returning to Scotland in 1847 he was married to her at the begin- ning of the following year, and at its close became assistant minister at Woodside, near Old Aberdeen, and evening lecturer in the largest church in Aberdeen. His success as a preacher can scarcely be exaggerated. Speedily the empty town-church was filled to over- flowing—pews, aisles, even pulpit-steps were densely