Lady Victoria Campbell

"THE FAIR HAVENS" 203
the hearts — while too many of God's children
forget that He requires them sometimes to be
" valiant for the Truth," and to fight.
" Truth and righteousness have perished," were
the words ringing in my ears.
Inveraray, Sep., 1887.
Many a time have I written to you in my heart,
and rejoiced to think of you being abundantly
fed with manna, and rivulets from the Water of
Life, while seeking physical health. May God
grant you both in rich abundance.
During the last trying weeks the thought has
come with a great sense of rest, that if we are
wholly given up to God we really shall not, cannot
lack anything. All will really and truly work
together for our good. Too often, I fear, we believe
all this only in a kind of head-knowledge way.
The news that my father had another relapse
of gout reached me at Tobermory. I got through
my work there, at Oban, and in dear little Lismore,
with a tug at my heart. I did not wait at Dunstaff-
nage over the Sunday, but after the Lismore
meeting took the 6.30 p.m. train from Oban,
and came on here at night. A lovely drive it has
been, with a brilliant starlit sky, and the night air
fragrant with the scent of heather, bog myrtle, a
general sense of greenness and trees !
Ever since I have been immersed in home duties,
taking the watch by him, and seeing to relatives
in the Castle.