Lady Victoria Campbell

44 FROM DEATH UNTO LIFE
was the feeling that those who remained were
shunted out of the current of Evangelical life and
interest.
Oh ! if I could tell you how intensely I echoed
in my heart Prepensed strong expression yesterday :
" II faut que les Eglises d'Etat perissent afin que
FEvangile triomphe." Mark you — as Eglises d'Etat.
That is simply that they be set free from bands and
ties that hinder and hamper and divide from
brethren.
But patience — each where we are have to seek a
present God, and seek to be a means of blessing.
I have looked out of that turret window and
longed to see a field-preaching in the field beyond
the river. Suppose we pray for that ? Why not
agree to do it, if it be His will, or He may send
the blessing another way.
To you I say — Be strong and of a good courage,
and believe in God. Believe in His Son. Believe
in the Holy Ghost, not only as a creed, but in
life. He knows all — can do all. Look at the three-
fold blessing (Num. vi. 24).
I have been revelling in Dr. Buchanan's " Life."
It stirs me as a trumpet might an old horse.
There is pain too, not small, mixed up with it,
but I am thankful to have lived through these
days.
I wish people would ponder the fact that the
conditions of membership in Church and citizenship
in State was essentially different. I am involun-
tarily a subject and citizen.