Lady Victoria Campbell

128 " ONE, THE MARCH IN GOD BEGUN "
in that direction. Her own desire to render personal
service was behind all her deep and lifelong interest
in foreign missions, and she never understood reluc-
tance on the part of those who seemed fitted for that
particular task in the vineyard, in not coming
forward.
When her diaries record " rebellions and storms "
in her inner life, it was mostly when she felt her
bodily conditions limited the scope of her service.
She was a born traveller ; at one time she thought
it right to contemplate going out to India with her
brother. When her father allowed her to consider
the scheme a possible one, she writes : "It was not
all self-denial. I have a passion for seeing new
countries, and have long had a dream of Zenana
work."
She was a fearless traveller, and would have gone
through discomforts in foreign lands, as hardily as
she encountered the discomforts of crossing her native
seas. There was no greater rest to her than to feel
that " duty " led her to go abroad. She prepared
for a winter in Rome or Geneva, or a journey to see
an old friend in Brussels, and she went off to survey
Kaiserwerth and its deaconesses with much less fuss
than many people make in a journey from London to
Edinburgh.
When the news of Lord Colin's illness came, she
writes of that event : —
As I was preparing to go to him, the telegram
to say all was over arrived.