XV. OUR LORD'S TREATMENT OF ERRING FRIENDS 267 SUNDAY READINGS. I. Read Ps. cxxxviii., and John xiii. 1-17. THE SELF-ASSERTING.—John xiii. 4, 5. II. Read Job xvi., and Matt. xxvi. 31-46. THE UNSYMPATHETIC.—John xiii. 1-3. III. Read 2 Sam. xxiv., and John xxi. 15-23. THE WILFUL.—John xiii. 6-10. IV. Read 1 Sam. xxiv., and Luke xxii. 47-62. THE FAITHLESS.—John xiii. 11. V. Read Isa. xl., and 1 Cor. xiii. THE SECRET OF MAGNANIMITY.—John xiii. 12-17. XVI. A HYMN OF HEART'S EASE 284 SUNDAY READINGS. "Lord, my heart is not haughty, Nor mine eyes lofty: Neither do I exercise myself in great matters, Or in things too high for me. Surely I have behaved And quieted myself; As a child that is weaned of its mother, My soul is even as a weaned child. Let Israel hope in the Lord From henceforth and for ever."—Ps. cxxxi. I. Read Job xxvi., and 1 Cor. xiii. THE SOURCE OF UNREST. "Things too high for me." II. Read Ps. xxxvii., and Matt. xi. THE SECRET OF REST. "Lord my heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty." III. Read Ps. lxxiii. and Heb. xii. CALM AFTER STORM. "Surely I have behaved and quieted myself." IV. Read Ps. xlvii. and Phil. ii. VICTORY BY SURRENDER. "As a child that is weaned of his mother: my soul is even as a weaned child." V. Read Gen. xxxii. and Rev. vii. THE RECOMPENSE OF FAITH. "Let Israel hope in the Lord from henceforth and for ever." XVII. THE FIRST CHAPTER OF GENESIS 302 MEMOIR. Although Dr. Elmslie was not destined to a long career, and died with the greater purposes of his life work almost entirely unfulfilled, very few men in the Nonconformist churches of Great Britain were better known and loved. The expectations of many in his native Scotland were fixed on him from the first; in England no preacher of his years had a larger or more enthusiastic following. Among students of the Old Testament he was beginning to be known as a master in his own subject, and as one likely to accomplish much in the reconciliation of criticism and faith. Add to this that he possessed the rarer charm of an almost unique personal magnetism—that many were attached to him by the chain which is not quickly broken, the bond of spiritual affinity, and it becomes necessary to apologise only for the imperfections, not for the existence, of this memorial. * * * * *