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 : 

 1 Merciful Father, teach and strengthen me to 

 bow 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. 



