Lady Victoria Campbell

FROM DEATH UNTO LIFE 57
As Dr. Dykes once said about David's word,
" I will trust and not be afraid." Evidently he
was afraid, and was setting his face, as he elsewhere
says, "encouraging himself in the Lord His God";
and all lower props and comforts fail. The one is
enough, never failing, ever sure.
Cannes, 1880.
Light has been on the hills of Grasse most of the
day. Everything is beginning to grow. The heavy
rain and the warmer air have set the life stirring in
all the plants, and it is a comfort to see the leaves
look clean and fresh : they had been so dusty and
so parched.
Some anemones are coming up just below our
window, and one of them the genuine red ; and the
yellow crocuses are also opening their eyes.
Oh, dear V., He who reneweth the face of the
earth each year hath much better in store for
us, and not withered leaves of the dead past, but
flowers and fruit, of the life to be, are our portion.
It is written, we are saved by Hope, and in that
Hope let us live, so this life, though brief, shall not
be vain — only the sorrow of it need not crush us.
Spring had nearly passed into summer before the
convalescence was assured. The Easter message of
Risen Life came with new meaning to those who saw
that health was restored, and the mind and spirit
were ready to acknowledge the supreme call for a life
of dedication.