On November 20 and 21, 1898, Mary Baker Eddy taught her last Normal class. During that instruction, she asked each class member a pointed question: “If you were called to some one who was apparently dying, what would you do?”
Lida Stocking Stone was in attendance, listening as each student answered earnestly—but technically. And she recalled Eddy’s reply: “Yes, you have all answered scientifically but that would not meet the case. You must have lived love.” In Stone’s words, Eddy “always taught that mere intellectualism would never heal the sick, cleanse the sinner or raise the dead” (see Lida Stocking Stone reminiscence, p. 4, August 13, 1935; The Mary Baker Eddy Library; © The Mary Baker Eddy Collection).
