In a letter to one of her students, Mary Baker Eddy wrote: "A real scientific Healer is the highest position attainable in this sphere of being. Its altitude is far above a Teacher or preacher; it includes all that is divinely high and holy" (Mary Baker Eddy: A Life Size Portrait by Lyman P. Powell, 1950 Edition, p. 316).
Many who are healed through the teachings of Christian Science are early inspired to enter its public practice in order to devote their entire time to the healing work. Those contemplating this highest of all callings will want to consider prayerfully the demands of the work and their own spiritual preparedness for it.
An unswerving conviction of good's allness and omnipotence must outweigh for the practitioner the mortal belief in the existence and reality of evil and in a power and an action which are opposed to God and which are called mortal mind or physical force. Indispensable also to the practice and demonstration of Christian Science healing is a knowledge of the system of Christian Science prayer or treatment, which affirms the allness and perfection of God and His creation and denies the reality of matter and its effects, sickness, sin, and death.
