Mrs. Eddy Mentioned Them March 24, 1956 Issue

Arebella Catherine Hankey, 1834-1911

[Mentioned in The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p. 15]

Miss Hankey came by her interest in religious training naturally, for her father was a banker member of the Clapham Sect, that group of evangelical philanthropists in England who wished to see the teachings of Christianity more widely practiced in public life. While still in school, she was a Sunday School teacher. Later she went to the shops and invited business girls to become members of a Bible class she taught. Some of its members became lifelong friends and took up religious work. When she taught girls from her own social set, she aroused the same enthusiasm. A trip to South Africa resulted in a lasting interest in missions, and she gave to them all the royalties from her writings.

The work which had the widest circulation and which was translated into several languages was "The Old, Old Story and Other Verses." It was written in 1866 and consisted of three parts: "The Story Wanted," "The Story Told," and "The Story Welcomed." "I love to tell the story" is taken from the second part. In one edition, pictures accompany the text, and a drawing of a gentleman reading at the bedside of a down-and-out man illustrates "I love to tell the story."

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