226 LORD LILFORD 



outdoor and a roving one, this limitation must 

 have been especially trying. But through 

 constant wearying attacks of illness, through 

 years when the discomforts of a helpless con- 

 dition gradually grew upon him, he possessed 

 his soul in patience ; his mental strength grew 

 with the curtailment of physical power, and 

 his endurance was fortified by the carrying 

 out of an extremely old-fashioned prescrip- 

 tion a simple faith in God. He asked for 

 patience, and he received it. In the prayer-book 

 he constantly used, where the fly-leaf contains 

 the Lord's Prayer in Spanish, the last page but 

 one has a brief petition in the following words : 

 ' Merciful Father, teach and strengthen me to 

 ]pow without complaint, or inward repining, to 

 Thy chastening hands, for the sake of Thy 

 beloved Son.' Many passages in the Psalms 

 and Collects are underlined, and on his Church- 

 less Sundays he never omitted to read the 

 services for the day. There grew upon him, in 

 the later years of his life, a reverent love for the 

 Church in which he had been brought up, coupled 

 with a large-heartedness which that love does 

 not always adopt as its yokefellow. 



