Missionary Series 3 C.S. Lewis

Clive Staples Lewis, or Jack as he liked to be called, was born on November 29, 1898, in Belfast, Ireland. Jack was a boy with a lively imagination. When he was a child, he wrote stories about King Bunny, Sir Peter Mouse, and Sir Ben, all talking animals from an imaginary land, called Boxen, that he and his brother Jack had made up. 
Flora, Jack's mother, started having health problems after the death of her father-in-law, in 1908. Even though the Lewis family was not very religious, Jack prayed for his mother to get well again. God said no to the little boy. Only ten days after the funeral, Jack's father's brother died, leaving him distraught, with two sons to care for. So he sent them both to a boarding school. The school master was abusive to all the boys who went there. It got so bad that Jack turned to Christianity. The school closed down and Jack was sent to live with a tutor, Professor Kirkpatrick, while Warren trained to be an officer in the army. Jack found living with the professor was very agreeable. But, for the first time in his life, Jack did not go to church on Sunday mornings. Professor Kirkpatrick was an Atheist and he challenged Jack's belief in Christianity. Eventually, the professor changed Jack's once firm belief in God and set him on the track of Atheism. Jack stayed with Kirkpatrick for a little more to brush up on science and math. But he spent most of his time reading and he failed the entrance exams for college. The college master of Oxford felt bad for the young man and let him in. But as Jack entered the doors of Oxford College, the World War 1 was starting.
Jack was called to the army in May to fight for England. After training, Jack helped with some new men coming to the army. It was now time to be sent to France.Jack lived in the trenches with other soldiers. During that time, he began to see that there really was a God. He turned back to Christianity. Finally, in 1918 the war was over. Jack graduated from college and became an English professor, like Kirkpatrick. As he got older, he moved to the country. Then in 1941, England started to get bombed. Parents in the cities were moving their children to the countryside, were they hoped that it would be safer. Since Clive (as he was now called) was not married, he invited many children into his home. One day, the children were amusing themselves by exploring the big, old house and a little girl found a spare room with a wardrobe in it. She climbed in and found heavy, winter coats. Later, she told Clive what she had found. "Wouldn't it be nice if there was a whole world behind the wardrobe?!" she asked him. Those words brought Clive back to his chilhood days, playing with Warren in the attic. Then he had an inspiration for a book. Called "The Chronicals of Narnia. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe". 

C.S. Lewis wrote the book and through it, portrayed an image of Christ that young childeren could understand. Though C.S. Lewis did not travel to India, or China, he was a missionary in his own way. 
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