The following, is copied from the editorial column of the Ceylon Mail and Weekly Independent, published in the city of Colombo, Ceylon, May 24, 1894.
"A few days ago we gave an extract from a letter received by a member of our staff, from Mr. John C. Schooley of New York, in which the latter stated that he was now, at seventy years of age, completely cured of his gout, and as well as when at forty. We supplement this to-day with the story of his cure, told by himself, a story which originally appeared in a periodical called the Christian Science Journal. Those who remember the genial gentleman, (and their name is legion) cannot but be intensely interested in this narrative of his, knowing as they do, that everything Mr. Schooley does, is carried out with that thoroughness that was (and doubtless is) his peculiar characteristic. Those who had not the privilege of knowing him, (and indeed it was a privilege,) may be interested in knowing that on the various occasions on which he visited Ceylon, he made the Galle Face Hotel his headquarters; that in the veranda of that hotel he used to sit on his own camp chair day in and day out, and month after month, until the approach of the South West Monsoon used to warn him to be up and doing, before, as he quaintly expressed it, "the mainspring got blown out of his watch." Always genial, always interesting, always well informed, Mr. Schooley's departure was the signal of much regret, a regret that will become the stronger when it is known that he is not again likely to seek our "spicy breezes" in search of the health he has now found. Still we rejoice that he has at last discovered what he has been looking for so long.
Here is his story."
