Although I was suffering from tuberculosis when Christian Science was presented to me, I thought of this Science not as a healing agent, but as an understandable, practical concept of God.
I had been hospitalized for about three months, and the doctors had not yet decided what treatment should be given. When I was given permission to go home for a week end, I visited a friend in Boston. Just before I left, my friend said, "You know, you are the image and likeness of God," and she gave me a copy of the Christian Science Sentinel.
Her statement that I was the image and likeness of God occupied much of my thinking, and I began to read the Sentinel. I tried to read the testimonies of healing first, but they seemed too miraculous; so I turned to the forward part of the magazine and read some of the articles. From my reading I learned that God is Mind, Spirit, Love, and that man, His idea or expression, is intelligent, spiritual, and loving. Accepting these truths, I began to understand that man is indeed the image of God.
