"Within the last five years," she said, as it was reported in the January 6, 1906, issue of the Christian Science Sentinel, "there have been organized fifteen churches and societies in the larger towns of the north of England, and in each case the work started through healing."
But the north of England had not warmly welcomed Lady Victoria Murray's first attempts to form a church a few years earlier. In a long letter to Mary Baker Eddy explaining the challenges she and her friends had faced, she wrote: "It was two years of one failure after another, and crowned with a triumph at last that was only won after nights & days of prayer, for Love to reign in place of the malice. When we decided to build a little church of our own, we had no membership, and a congregation of about 40 to 50. No hall, no room, would allow us to hold services, we were turned out of each place, and so the only alternative left was to build.... We go into the church [in Manchester] in four weeks...." Victoria Murray to Mary Baker Eddy, March 1, 1904, Incoming Correspondence to Mary Baker Eddy, The Mary Baker Eddy Library for the Betterment of Humanity.
In a grandmotherly tender reply (Lady Victoria was in her mid-20s at the time, Mrs. Eddy in her 80s), Mrs. Eddy thanked her for sending the "ripened sheaves and harvest song.... what joy is ours in Christian Science, infinite Love all our own, tireless Love watching our waiting, pointing the path ... as wisdom directs—then when the lesson is learned supplying the need and ending the warfare.
