X1V MEMOIR vert’s entering the Presbyterian Ministry are, again, best expressed in his own subsequent words: ‘The change in my inner, brought a corresponding change in my outer life. I resolved, instead of devoting myself to literature, to devote myself to the study of theology, and to enter the service of the Church. Of ‘Church questions’ I knew absolutely nothing. They did not as yet arise. I had only learned the doctrines of Christianity from the New Testament, and the only outward church which I really knew (t.e. in the sense of being practically acquainted with it) was that of my teachers, the Scottish ministers. . . . Just at that time Dr. Duncan was called to occupy the Chair of Oriental Languages in the newly formed ‘‘ New College”’ of Edinburgh ; and thither I accompanied him, to study theology in Edinburgh. It was thus naturally and unconsciously (so far as Church questions are con- cerned) that I became identified with the Presbyterian Church.’ Living under the roof, and working under the personal direction, of Professor Duncan, Alfred Eders- heim pursued not only the ordinary branches of theological study, but read exhaustively in dogmatics