Lady Victoria Campbell

48 FROM DEATH UNTO LIFE
when weak health made a personal share in such
activities impossible, her means and influence were
most generously at the disposal of every good cause
which came under her notice.
" Possessed of great gifts of mind and heart, like so
many of the members of the ancient and noble house
to which she belonged, she kept close watch on the
theological movements within the Church, reading
the literature of modern questions in various Euro-
pean languages; and while conservative in her own
theological views, she had the fullest sympathy with
every earnest attempt of accredited scholars to set
the old faith in a better light. In matters of worship,
too, whilst having her own preference for what
was simple — for her whole manner of life was simple
— yet her natural generosity of disposition made her
ever ready to adjust herself, in matters non-essential,
to the prevalent need ; and she was ever ready to
adopt, even to her own discomfort, anything which
could be shown to be likely to make the Church a
more effective weapon to influence the greatest
number to a new or fuller interest in Christ. si sic
omnes !
" But of all that she was the Church at large, and
the congregations at Cannes and at Liberton in par-
ticular, were deprived with startling suddenness.
Those present at the close of our Jubilee Assembly
will remember the fitting reference in the Modera-
tor's prayer at the opening of the evening sederunt
to the loss which the morning of a day bright with
much promise had brought to the Church. It was