No longer did she imagine that God had sent her lameness.

She ceased to think of Him.
But one day she heard a sermon which made her think of Jesus as a teacher, just as one thinks of Plato and Aristotle.

She reflected that she really knew more of the teaching of Plato and Aristotle than she knew of Christ's teaching.

This seemed to her an unsatisfactory state of things, and she set herself, as a student of philosophy, to study the teaching of Jesus.

What had He said?
Never mind whether He had founded this Church or that, what had He said?
And what had been His science of life, His reading of the riddle?
This study, to which she brought a philosophic mind and a candid heart, convinced her that the teaching should be tried.