Were not refused his skills, pills, and knowledge.
For years he was at the heart of his community.
“I should have been at his funeral,”
The man told the pharmacist’s wife with embarrassment,
Because he had worked for him as a boy.
“I thought there would have been lots of people there.”
“There were three,” she replied.
He turned to me with a word of revelation:
“When ministers say at large funerals,
‘The crowd here today represents
How great a person this was,
How well respected in the community,’
They are lying,” he said.
Was not the man right?
A life is never truly represented by a crowd.
I reckon that fewer than fifty people turned up at C. S. Lewis’s funeral service. Even Warren didn’t make it. The Times mentions twenty-two by name. Yet the Ulsterman got it right: ultimately it is not in a crowd that a man’s greatness is represented, for crowds are fickle. The important thing is what endures from a life. Millions upon millions of people have recognised what endures from the life of C. S. Lewis. What, then, is his enduring legacy? What has he given to us? Lots of things! Yet, what he has given is ultimately that shiver of wonder we get at times when we read his writing. He enables us to see beyond it, to the living God he is writing about. He makes us look away to the time when the term is over, and the holidays really have begun; when the dream has finally ended and we have arrived at the eternal morning; when the vista won’t be Belfast Lough and the Holywood Hills, or Carlingford Lough and the Cooley or Mourne Mountains. Rather the vista will be of that celestial shore, into which Jack has already helped give us more than an inkling.
END NOTES
PREFACE
1.The Listener, 72 (16th July 1964), p.97.
2.See 1 Corinthians 14:23.
3.Just as I am, Billy Graham, Harper Collins Publishers, 1997, p.224-225.
4.“God’s Funeral,” Hardy, Collected Poems, p.307
5.Lubbock, p.259.
6.“Christian Apologetics,” quoted by Walter Hooper in C. S. Lewis: A Companion and Guide, Harper Collins, 1996, p.30.
7.Jack: A life of C. S. Lewis, George Sayer, Hodder and Stoughton, 1997, p.282.
8.Walden Media, New York, 31st July 2002.
9.The Dairies of Kenneth Tynan, edited by John Lahr, Bloomsbury, 2001, pp.194-5.
10.Ibid, pp.405-6.
11.Ibid, p.37.
12.Ibid, p.322.
13.The Path To Power, Margaret Thatcher, Harper Collins Publishers, 1955, p.40.
14.The Horse and His Boy, p.11.
15.The Song of Solomon 1: 3; 4:10.
CHAPTER 1
1.2 Samuel 23:4.
2.The Belfast and Province of Ulster Directory for 1905: Ref 244, PRONI. Compiled by The Belfast News Letter Office. Copyright secured at Stationary Hall, London.
3.Belfast, An Illustrated, Jonathan Bardon, The Blackstaff Press Ltd., 1982, p.156.
4.Jack, George Sayer, Hodder and Stoughton, 1997, p.42.
5.Surprised by Joy, Inspirational Press, by arrangement with Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Inc., 1991, p.11.
6.Ibid, p.11.
7.2 Corinthians 12:2-4, The Message. Copyright Eugene H. Peterson, 1993, 1994, 1995. Used by permission of NavPress Publishing Group.
CHAPTER 2
1.Surprised by Joy, Inspirational Press, by arrangement with Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Inc, 1991, p.8.
2.Romans 8:28.
3.The Lewis Papers: Memoirs of the Lewis Family, 1850-1930 (eleven volumes), Leeborough Press. A typescript of the original is in the Wade Collection, Wheaton, Illinois.
4.Light on C. S. Lewis, “The Approach to English”, ed. Jocelyn Gibb, London, Geoffrey Bles, 1965, p.64.
CHAPTER 3
1.Jack, George Sayer, Hodder and Stoughton, 1997, p.57.
2.Nicholas Nickleby, Wordsworth Classics, 2000, p.148.
3.The Last Battle, Fontana, 1980, p.173.
CHAPTER 4
1.The Times, February 20th 2004.
2. Permission to quote from the C. S. Lewis News given by James O’Fee, former Chairman of the C. S. Lewis Centenary Group, which is now dissolved.
3.From Representative Poetry Online, A UTEL (University of Toronto English Library) Edition.
4.Ibid.
5.The Poems, Matthew Arnold, Oxford University Press, 1930, p.401.
CHAPTER 5
1.W. B. Yeats and His World, Thames and Hudson, London, 1971, p.30.
2.Ibid, pp.27-29.
3.Surprised by Joy, Inspirational Press, by arrangement with Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Inc, 1991, p.34.
4.Quoted in Parents and Teenagers, Victor Books, a division of SP Publications, Inc., 1984, p.316.
5. The Desert Wings, 3rd March 1978, AFFTC, History Office.
6. Jack, A Life of C. S. Lewis, George Sayer, Hodder and Stoughton, 1997, pp.67-68.
7.Ibid, p.68.
8. Surprised by Joy, Inspirational Press, by arrangement with Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Inc., 1991, p.41.
CHAPTER 6
1.Quotation taken from an essay on James Hilton on the Exxon Mobil Masterpiece Theatre website.
2.The Collected Poems of Wilfred Owen, edited by C. Day Lewis, Chatto and Windus Ltd., 1963, p.31.
3.Ibid., p.44.
CHAPTER 7
1.Source, George MacDonald, Scotland’s Beloved Storyteller, Michael R. Phillips, Bethany House Publishers, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1987, p.335. Mr. Phillips gives his source for this poem as Greville MacDonald, op.cit., p.559-560.
CHAPTER 8
1.Surprised by Joy, Inspirational Press, by arrangement with Harcourt Brace and Javanovic Inc., 1991, p.86.
2.See Narnian Ulster by Mary Rodgers on the C. S. Lewis Centenary Group website.
3.A scutcher was involved in the dressing of retted flax by beating it.
4.In the local dialect “oul” means “old”; “wheen,” a “lot”; and “axed” means “asked”
5. Livin’ in Drumlister, The Collected Ballads and Verses of W. F. Marshall, The Blackstaff Press Limited, 1983, p.50.
6. The Pilgrim’s Regress, C. S. Lewis, Fount paperbacks, William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd., 1977, p.6-7.
CHAPTER 10
1.Quoted in Violets from Oversea, by Tonie and Valmai Holt, Leo Cooper, 1996, p.219.
2.Ibid, page 211.
3.Ibid, page 143.
4.See 1 Kings chapter 10.
CHAPTER 11
1.Surprised by Joy, Inspirational Press, by arrangement with Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Inc., 1991.
2. Acts 10:43.
3.Letters of C. S. Lewis, Edited, with a memoir by W. H. Lewis, Fount, An Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers,1988.
4.1 John 4:14, 15; 5:10-12.
5.Matthew 7:13, 14.
CHAPTER 12
1.A Witch’s Brewing, F. W. Boreham, The Epworth Press, London, 1932, p.27-28.
2.The Pilgrim’s Regress, Collins, Fount Paperbacks, 1977.
3.Ibid., p.216.
4.Matthew 10:39.
5.Jack, A Life of C. S. Lewis, George Sayer, Hodder and Stoughton, 1997, p.226.
6.The Pilgrim’s Regress, Collins, Fount Paperbacks, 1977, p.216.
7.Proverbs 27:19.
8.Quoted in C. S. Lewis, A Companion and Guide, Walter Hooper, Fount, An Imprint of Harper Collins Publishers, 1997, p.25.
9.The Problem of Pain, Collins, Fontana Books, 1957.
CHAPTER 13
1.The Peverel Papers, Flora Thompson, Century Hutchinson, 1986, p.181-182.
2.Fern-seed and Elephants, C. S. Lewis, Fontana, 1975, p.26-38.
3.1 Corinthians 10:31.
4.Hebrews 13:14.
5.Matthew 5:39.
6.Christian Counter-Culture, J. R. W. Stott, IVP, 1979, p.108.
7.Ibid., p.108-109.
8.Ja
ck, George Sayer, Hodder and Stoughton, 1997, p.311.
9.James 4:7.
10.Quoted in C. S. Lewis at the BBC, Justin Phillips, Harper Collins Publishers, 2002, p.51-52.
11.Quoted in The Caged Lion, Winston Spencer Churchill, 1932-1940, William Manchester, Cardinal, 1988, p.686.
12.Foreword by J. W. Welch, to Dorothy L. Sayers’ The Man Born To Be King, Victor Gollancz, London, 1943, p.11ff .
13.BBC Handbook, 1942, p.59.
CHAPTER 14
1.“Common Decency” by C. S. Lewis, Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford.
2.Esther 4:14.
3.The Cross of Christ, John Stott, IVP, p.334.
4.Ibid., p336-337.
5.C. S. Lewis at the BBC, Justin Phillips, Harper Collins Publishers, 2002, p.151.
6.Ibid., p.297.
7.John 4:14.
8.Matthew 24:22.
9.Genesis 11:1-9.
10.That Hideous Strength, C. S. Lewis, Pan Books, 1955, p.13.
11.A. C. Scupholme, Theology L, (October 1947), pp.395-7.
12.From St. Andrews Citizen, 29th June 1946.
CHAPTER 15
1.Northern Ireland, text by Ian Hill, The Blackstaff Press, published with the assistance of the IDB, 1986, p.62.
2. See C. S. Lewis: A Companion and Guide, Walter Hooper, Fount, An Imprint of Harper Collins Publishers, 1997, pp. 64, 92.
3.The Horse and His Boy, C. S. Lewis, Collins, An imprint of Harper Collins Publishers, 2001, p.180.
4. Psalm 34:19.
5.Quoted in C. S. Lewis: A Companion and Guide, Walter Hooper, Fount, An imprint of Harper Collins Publishers, 1997, p.36-37. These thoughts were originally written down by Lady Freud for Stephen Schofield to use in his book, In Search of C. S. Lewis (1983).
6. Isaiah 40:29-31.
7.Romans 8:28.
8.The Oxford Magazine LXX111, Review by J.B.L., 2nd December 1954, p.134.
9.Commander of the British Empire.
10. C. S. Lewis, Letters, Edited by W. H. Lewis, Fount, An imprint of Harper Collins Publishers, 1988, p.40.
CHAPTER 16
1.These Found the Way: Thirteen Converts to Protestant Christianity, Ed. David Wesley Soper, Philadelphia, The Westminster Press, 1951, pp.15-16.
2.C. S. Lewis, A Companion and Guide, Walter Hooper, Hodder and Stoughton, 1996, p.77.
CHAPTER 17
1.C. S. Lewis, Letters, Fount, An Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 1988, p.470.
2.Ibid., p.44-45.
3.Ibid., p.466.
4. Ibid., p.44-45.
5. Ibid., p.474.
6.The Four Loves, Collins, Fount Paperbacks, 1977.
7.Reflections on the Psalms, Inspirational Press, by arrangement with Harcourt, Brace Jovanovich Inc., 1991.
8.C. S. Lewis, A Companion and Guide, Fount, An imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, p.96.
CHAPTER 18
1.C. S. Lewis, A Companion and Guide, Walter Hooper, Fount, An Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, p.108-109.
2. Jack, A life of C. S. Lewis, George Sayer, Hodder and Stoughton, 1997, p.402.
3. First published by Geoffrey Bles in 1964.
4.1 John 3:2.
5.Called druggist in the United States.
The author wishes to thank his typist, Dorothy, for her patient and dedicated work in typing the manuscript for this book. She professes to have found the life of C. S. Lewis to be a truly inspiring journey.
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