For many years I have lived on the island of Java; and three years ago, previous to leaving the East Indies for Holland, I planned to take a trip into the interior with a friend. A few weeks before our departure, I was seized with a quartan fever, which is a species of malaria that is much dreaded in the East Indies, and which recurs every three days. As I had known and practiced Christian Science for two years, I had no desire to consult a doctor; and despite this discordant manifestation, we started off on the appointed date. I was receiving absent treatment from a Christian Science practitioner, and was eagerly reading "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy. Our trip lasted about a month, during which time the attacks of fever diminished, but did not completely disappear. After some weeks I went to stay with a family, all the members of which were Christian Scientists. It was there that my healing took place.
I am unspeakably grateful to God, divine Love, who has shown me that Spirit is the only healing power; and I thank God for all the blessings I have received since the day I commenced to put into practice the teachings of Christian Science.—
Batavia, Java.
