On February 22, 1895, Mary Baker Eddy wrote to her student Laura E. Sargent, evidently answering a question as to how one could best make progress in the practice of Christian Science:
“What you and all students need most to advance their growth is practice healing the sick[.] Sea captains on shore are of no use[.] All your theory will prove worse than useless to you unless you practice it in proof of it for yourself[.] Taking patients is the only way to do this” (L05975, The Mary Baker Eddy Library; © The Mary Baker Eddy Collection).
That may have been a busy time for Eddy. But this letter emphasizes the focus she placed—and would continue to place—on physical healing.
