  The article of Professor T——, having the above cap- [1] tion, published in Zion's Herald, December third, came not to my notice until January ninth. In it the Professor offered me, as President of the Metaphysical College in Boston, or one of my students, the liberal sum of one [5] thousand dollars if either would reset certain dislocations without the use of hands, and two thousand dollars if either would give sight to one born blind. Will the gentleman accept my thanks due to his gener- [10] osity; for, if I should accept his bid on Christianity, he would lose his money. Why? Because I performed more difficult tasks fifteen years ago. At present, I am in another department of Christian [15] work, “where there shall no signs be given them,” for they shall be instructed in the Principle of Christian Science that furnishes its own proof. But, to reward his liberality, I offer him three thou- sand dollars if he will heal one single case of opium-eating [20] where the patient is very low and taking morphine powder in its most concentrated form, at the rate of one ounce in two weeks,—having taken it twenty years; and he is to cure that habit in three days, leaving the patient well. I cured precisely such a case in 1869. [25] Also, Mr. C. M. H——, of Boston, formerly partner of George T. Brown, pharmacist, No. 5 Beacon St., will tell you that he was my student in December, 1884; and that before leaving the class he took a patient thoroughly addicted to the use of opium—if she went without it [30] twenty-four hours she would have delirium—and in [1] forty-eight hours cured her perfectly of this habit, with no bad results, but with decided improvement in health. I have not yet made surgery one of the mental branches [5] taught in my college; although students treat sprains, contusions, etc., successfully. In the case of sprain of the wrist-joint, where the regular doctor had put on splints and bandages to remain six weeks, a student of mine removed these appliances the same day and effected the [10] cure in less than one week. Reference, Mrs. M. A. F——, 107 Eutaw Street, East Boston. I agree with the Professor, that every system of medi- cine claims more than it practises. If the system is Science, it includes of necessity the Principle, which the learner [15] can demonstrate only in proportion as he understands it. Boasting is unbecoming a mortal's poor performances. My Christian students are proverbially modest: their works alone should declare them, since my system of medi- cine is not generally understood. There are charlatans [20] in “mind-cure,” who practise on the basis of matter, or human will, not Mind. The Professor alludes to Paul's advice to Timothy. Did he refer to that questionable counsel, “Take a little wine for thy stomach's sake”? Even doctors disagree [25] on that prescription: some of the medical faculty will tell you that alcoholic drinks cause the coats of the stomach to thicken and the organ to contract; will prevent the secretions of the gastric juice, and induce ulceration, bleeding, vomiting, death. [30] Again, the Professor quotes, in justification of material methods, and as veritable: “He took a bone from the side of Adam, closed up the wound thereof, and builded [1] up the woman.” (Gen. ii. 21.) Here we have the Professor on the platform of Christian Science! even a “surgical operation” that he says was performed by divine power,—Mind alone constructing [5] the human system, before surgical instruments were invented,
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