Lady Victoria Campbell

42 FROM DEATH UNTO LIFE
In the Disruption of 1843 she was one of those who
" came out," and she upheld the cause of the Free
Church of Scotland with singular fervour and zeal.
It was a great disappointment to her that the Duke,
having sympathised and understood the case for the
Free Church, had withdrawn himself from the party
when he saw that schism was inevitable. He has
left it on record that the controversy made him
retire for the rest of his life from Church Courts and
their politics, as far as was possible. This was not
the case with Lady Emma. She threw in her lot
with the Disruption leaders, and urged them forward
with all the ardour of her brave and truth-loving
spirit. The bitterness which was unfortunately the
distinguishing mark of that unhappy controversy
was not absent from the attitude Lady Emma took
towards the National Church, and those who re-
mained within its walls. She was essentially a
fighter for the truth as she saw it, and her zeal swept
her vehement spirit into many sayings and actions
which seemed at the time extreme, and are, like so
many other extinct volcanoes, difficult to reconstruct
amid the cold ashes of a day that is dead.
It says much *or the warm and generous love which
was the keynote of her character, that these ecclesi-
astical controversies never separated her from her
brother and his wife. If the^ could not see eye to eye
they agreed to differ, and the Duchess had a wide
tolerance and a deep, trustful love for Lady Emma.
Half the year was spent by her with the family at
Rosneath or Inveraray. Special rooms were always