The article of Prof. Townsend having the above caption, published in Zion's Herald, Dec. 3rd, came to my notice not until Jan. 9th. In it he offered the President of the Metaphysical College in Boston, or one of her students, the liberal sum of $1000, if she would re-set certain dislocations without the use of her hands, and $2000 if she would give sight to one born blind.
Will the gentleman accept my thanks due to his generosity; 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 work, where "there shall no sign 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 $3000, if he will heal one simple case of opium-eating where the patient is very low and taking morphine powder in its most concentrated form, at the rate of one ounce in two weeks, and has taken it twenty years, and cure that habit in three days, leaving the patient well. I cured precisely such a case in 1869. Also, Chas. M. Howe, of Boston, formerly partner of Geo. T. Brown, Pharmacist, No. 5 Beacon Street, will tell you that he was my student in December, 1884, and before leaving the class took a patient thoroughly addicted to the use of opium— if she went without it twenty-four hours would have delirium—and cured her perfectly of this habit in forty-eight hours, with no bad results, and decided improvement in health.
