Lady Victoria Campbell

96 "PASTORS AND MASTERS"
communion with more churches than almost anyone
of her generation. Very many, and scattered over a
wide field, were the pulpits from which the Sunday
after her death words of thankful remembrance were
uttered from the heart for this strong daughter of
the faith.
Loyalty to the minister was her first demand from
all church-workers with whom she was associated.
She was not destitute of the true mark of Scottish
Presbyterians, and she knew how to criticise the
minister. " How can he give anything out if he puts
nothing in," was a comment she would make on a
sermon destitute of study. Her criticisms were
always to the minister, and not on him to others, and
in friendly confabulation she communicated to him
her mind without reserve. One minister relates how
she once arrived at his door on behalf of one of his
parishioners, for whose welfare she was at the moment
deeply concerned. " Be quick ! The man will be
dead while you are waiting to go to him." " I knew,"
said another when the record was closed, " that she
always kept me up to the mark ; I did not realise
she was keeping fifty others."
She had the strongest dislike to the petty and dis-
loyal backbitings, however Christian their site and
environment, which too often sap the vitality of
Church organisation.
Certainly no minister had ever cause to complain
of her absence from ordinances. Occasionally they
joined their brethren of the healing art, in recom-
mending less strenuous church-going. They were not