Dr. Anita Davies (3 October 1932-17 July 2018)
Dr. Anita Davies was a protégé of Dr. Margery Blackie, the homeopathic physician to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. Dr. Davies was a qualified medical doctor and a perceptive practitioner of homeopathy. Whereas homeopathy is often disdained –especially in America, it has been given respect in the UK owing to the Royal Family’s well-known support of it. Dr. and Mrs. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, both medical doctors, were great users of homeopathy.
In many ways Dr. Anita was our physician. She came to our London flat regularly to check my blood pressure. Anita rang our door one evening – the night before Louise was prepared to go into hospital to have a breast removed. Louise had already bought a special gown for the hospital. Her mind was made up to get it over with! But Anita pleaded with Louise: “You don’t have cancer”. “But how do you know I don’t have cancer ?”,Louise asked. “Because you don’t!”, said Anita. Anita had a gift of perceptiveness that went beyond medical training. Anita canceled the surgery for Louise and took Louise personally to the top consultant surgeon in London that deals with breast cancer. After examining Louise, the consultant said to me: “I would not operate on your wife today or tomorrow”. That was thirty years ago.
Although Dr. Anita attended Westminster Chapel from the first day I arrived, she claims she was not truly converted until she enrolled in the Evangelism Explosion course – designed by the late D. James Kennedy. After the sixth week into the course the light broke through on her for the first time – that Jesus the God-man had by Himself paid her debt on the cross. She subsequently asked me to baptize her. Shortly after that she took me to meet her mother, then in her eighties. I had the privilege of leading her mother to Christ.
We went through many trials and tribulations at Westminster Chapel – those twenty-five years being “the best of times, the worst of times” – to quote Charles Dickens. Dr. Anita Davies stood firmly behind our ministry – even when it led her slightly outside her comfort zone! During the past sixteen years since our retirement Dr. Anita would always come to hear me preach – and managed to spend time with us year after year.
She is now in Heaven. She is there because Jesus Christ the God-man paid her debt on the cross—and Anita transferred her trust in her own good works to the finished work of Christ. She would want all who read these lines or hear these words to know this – and do what she did.