Lady Victoria Campbell

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her deep regret to find herself in her last year in
London, at Eastertide, with no Communion service
in St. Columba. The desire she then expressed
helped Dr. Fleming to institute the keeping of the
feast, and since her death the Easterday celebration
has become the established custom.
Her attitude was one of loyalty and not of preju-
dice. She believed for herself, and for all those
who were privileged to be Scots, that the National
Church was the one they should uphold, and live
under its organisation and discipline. She knew its
history. The blood of its martyrs was drawn from
her own race ; and by every tie patriotic, patriarchal,
and clannish, she clung to its landmarks and its
services.
Fortunately, loyalty in Presbyterians leads to no
narrowing of the channels of grace. For them the
gates are open in all the Reformed Churches, and
Lady Victoria found her spiritual food quite as often
in the liturgy of the Church of England, and in the
thoughts of the Church Universal, as in the Church of
her fathers.
"Ah me ! " she writes to Lady Mary at Peter-
borough, " what a golden link it is which binds strong
fibres of one's heart to our mother's Church."
As well used as her Bible and her Psalm-book
were Keble's Christian Year, the Confessions of
St. Augustine, the Imitation of Christ, the works
of St. Francis of Sales, and Dean Goulburn.
The year 1890 has the words : " Island of Tiree
quieted down. A good earnest minister appointed."