MEMOIR Xl Writing himself subsequently on this subject, Dr. Kidersheim says: ‘The purity and holiness of life of these men attracted me; their earnestness and con- victions aroused me to inquire into the views which had made them so quite other from those whom I had hitherto known, and from what I knew myself to be. Our acquaintance soon ripened into friendship... .’ And again: ‘I had never seen a New Testament till I received the first copy from the hands of the Presbyterian ministers. I shall never forget the first impression of ‘‘ the Sermon on the Mount,’’ nor yet the surprise, and then deep feeling, by which the reading of the New Testament was followed. That which I had so hated was not Christianity; that which I had not known, and which opened such untold depths, was the teaching of Jesus of Nazareth. I became a Christian, and was baptized by the pastor of the Reformed Church at Pesth.’ That this stage was followed as well as preceded by long and anxious thought and struggle, is testified to by a corre- pondence (in Latin) which ensued between the newly baptized one and Dr. Duncan, then resident at Leghorn. The circumstances which led to the young con-