the divine nature, apart from which those filial qualities which God demands from man could have no sanction; by _faith_ as used in Scripture he understood to be meant a certain moral or spiritual activity or energy which virtually implied salvation, because it implied the existence of a principle of spiritual life possessed of an immortal power. This faith, he believed, could be properly awakened only by the manifestation, through Christ, of love as the law of life, and as identical with an eternal righteousness which it was God's purpose to bestow on every individual soul. As an interpreter of the mystical side of Calvinism and of the psychological conditions which correspond with the doctrines of grace Erskine is unrivalled. During the last thirty-three years of his life Erskine ceased from literary work. Among his friends were Madame Vernet, the duchess de Broglie, the younger Mdme de Stael, M. Vinet of Lausanne, Edward Irving, Frederick D. Maurice, Dean Stanley, Bishop Ewing, Dr John Brown and Thomas Carlyle. His wide influence was due to his high character and unassuming earnestness. He died at Edinburgh on the 20th of March 1870. His principal works are _Remarks on the Internal Evidence for the Truth of Revealed Religion_ (1820), an _Essay on Faith_ (1822), and the _Unconditional Freeness of the Gospel_ (1828). These have all passed through several editions, and have also been translated into French. He is also the author of the _Brazen Serpent_ (1831), the _Doctrine of Election_ (1839), several "Introductory Essays" to editions of _Christian Authors_, and a posthumous work entitled _Spiritual Order and Other Papers_ (1871). Two vols. of his letters, edited by William Hanna, D.D., with reminiscences by Dean Stanley and Principal Shairp, appeared in 1877.