From the Mary Baker Eddy Library

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.

Laura Sargent was a student in the 1884 class that Mary Baker Eddy taught in Chicago. Sargent went on to become one of Eddy’s most trusted staff members.

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[.