1st: To restore the dead to life again as she claims she can.
2nd: To walk upon the water without the aid of artificial means as she claims she can.
3rd: To live 24 hours without air, or 24 days without nourishment of any kind without its having any effect upon her.
4th: To restore sight when the optic nerve has been destroyed.
5th: To set and heal a broken bone without the aid of artificial means.
I am, respectfully,
W. W. Wright
At this point Mrs. Glover retired from the controversy, but five of her students, George W. Barry, Amos Ingalls, George H. Allen, Dorcas Rawson, and Miranda Rice wrote a protest to the Lynn Transcript, February 17th, ignoring Mr. Wright's challenge, but defending their teacher and her Science, and declaring that his charges against both were untrue. Mr. Wright had the last word and ended the controversy, February 24th, by exultantly declaring that Mrs. Glover and her Science were practically dead and buried; which certainly suggests that the gift of prophecy was denied him.
Mrs. Glover's pen at this period was not employed exclusively in controversy. In the Lynn Transcript, November 4, 1871, appear the following verses:
| LINES ON RECEIVING SOME GRAPES |
| By Mary Baker Glover |
| Beautiful grapes would I were thee, |
| Clustering round a parent stem, |
| The blessing of my God to be, |
| In woodland, bower or glen; |
| Where friend or foe had never sought |
| The angels "born of apes," |
| And breathed the disappointed thought, |
| Behold! They're sour grapes. |
