Lady Victoria Campbell

216 "THE FAIR HAVENS"
" Lady Victoria needed to be known to be under-
stood. There was a side of her character and life that
many, even of her friends, never seemed to find out.
She was not without faults, but no one knew it better
than herself. She was not apt to confess mistakes,
but she felt them, and did not forget them. She was
sometimes impatient with others, but she never
spared herself. She might say the word not too
well considered or too gently put, but a ' Celt of the
Celts, 5 she was a warm-hearted woman, and a loyal
friend. She seldom spoke of her Christian experience,
but it was often plain how really she lived in the
presence of a personal Saviour. It was the explana-
tion of a faith and a courage and a hopefulness not
very common among Christ's disciples. It was the
secret of a service that never seemed to tire, and of
a devotion that grew more intense. ' Instant in
season and out of season.' Bent on doing ' what she
could.'
" Allowed to see her for a few moments, in a sickness
nigh unto death, after prayer that she might be
spared to us, she whispered to me in her weakness :
' If He will, perhaps I may do something more for
Him before I see Him face to face.'
" Some two weeks before she was taken from us
I saw her. She was full of the great World Missionary
Conference which she had been attending in Edin-
burgh, and greatly lifted with the hope of the Union
of the Churches in Scotland.
" Little did I dream then that we should never
meet in this world again. I had promised to visit