Lady Victoria Campbell

116 "PASTORS AND MASTERS"
life. She had seen the islands of her future love.
As she drove to the ancient chapels in Tiree, she
little thought of the home that was to be built
beside them for her life's work, and when she drove
along " the reef " there was no vision of the many
journeys across its sandy road it was to be her
lot to make. She had only seen the promised land,
and for a time other cares and thoughts were to
engross her life. Courage she ever possessed, but she
was always anxious and troubled, and needed the
words sent her by the minister of Rosneath on the
eve of the New Year.
Xmas, 1878.
The passing of the old year must have been full
of trying associations, which gather and do not
diminish as time advances. " We are saved by
Hope," and, as what lies behind us darkens,
the horizon of the future should expand and
brighten.
She had begun the year, fraught with so many
changes, by recording the words of promise ; in the
close of that time, she drew up, for her own guidance,
the days and subjects for her own intercessory
prayers.
Sundays. 1878.
For members of my union and clergy in par-
ticular. A deeper realisation of that rest in Christ,
which He has promised.