Lady Victoria Campbell

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thought was that she should not be far away from
the church with the name so full of every sacred
association in her mind.
When " Professor Pax," with energy and clear-
sightedness, brought into being the Guilds of Life and
Work to revivify the Church of Scotland, Lady Victoria
never rested till all the churches with which she was
connected had started this powerful machinery of
Church life.
The connection with St. Columba's carried her
back to Crown Court, and she was in helpful relations
with both the ministers who succeeded Dr. Macleod
when he went to the Church of St. Columba. She
was President of the Crown Court Guild and regularly
addi 3ssed its mothers' meetings ; when her lodging
for ti^e time being was at Stafford House, her ways
led her, almost by tradition, to Crown Court Church.
" Go," she wrote to one whom she thought slack in
recognition of the Scottish Church, " and see that
congregation of young men in the evening, and hear
Mr. Macrae preaching on the characters of the Old
Testament." She clung to the traditions of the old
site, and when, a quarter of a century after the
building of St. Columba, the old Kirk of the Crown was
rebuilt she was full of regrets. She desired that the
church furniture should be sent to her for her island
churches, and she only admitted the renovation
was right when she entered for the first, and
as it proved, the last time, the newly dedicated
building.
In the new church, among the monuments of the