Calvinistic creed to something which suited her. For example, she
fully understood what St. Paul means when he tells the Thessalonians
that BECAUSE they were called, THEREFORE they were to stand fast.
She thought with Paul that being called; having a duty plainly laid
upon her; being bidden as if by a general to do something, she OUGHT
to stand fast; and she stood fast, supported against all pressure by
the consciousness of fulfilling the special orders of One who was her
superior. There is no doubt that this dogma of a personal calling is
a great consolation, and it is a great truth. Looking at the masses
of humanity, driven this way and that way, the Christian teaching is
apt to be forgotten that for each individual soul there is a vocation
as real as if that soul were alone upon the planet. Yet it is a
fact. We are blinded to it and can hardly believe it, because of the
impotency of our little intellects to conceive a destiny which shall
take care of every atom of life on the globe: we are compelled to
think that in such vast crowds of people as we behold, individuals
must elude the eye of the Maker, and be swept into forgetfulness.
But the truth of truths is that the mind of the universe is not our
mind, or at any rate controlled by our limitations.

This has been a long digression which I did not intend; but I could
not help it. I was anxious to show how Mrs. Butts met her trouble
through her religion. The apostle says that "they drank of that
spiritual Rock which followed them, and that Rock was Christ." That
was true of her. The way through the desert was not annihilated; the
path remained stony and sore to the feet, but it was accompanied to
the end by a sweet stream to which she could turn aside, and from
which she could obtain refreshment and strength.

Just about the time that we began our meetings near Drury Lane, I