NEW YEAR'S TIPPLING

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, Cal. · Feb 17, 1881

NEW YEAR'S TIPPLING.

JUDGING from what we have seen in our exchanges, our recent New Year's Day has been remarkable for two things, one is the generalness with which the day was celebrated by callers at houses known to be “open,” and the other is, the almost universal absence of wines and stronger liquors from the tables. Really as the social custom becomes less tyrannical, hospitality becomes more amiable. Never shall we forget the whirlwind of emotions we suffered once when a fine young fellow found by us in the gutter, and helped up again into hope and effort, met a temptation at the New Year's table. A beautiful young lady holding the sparkling glass in her beautiful hand at her own table, said to him, “Please to taste our wine with me.” He said, “No, Miss, I never drink.” “Never! Are you so weak that you can’t trust yourself to take with me one little glass of wine?” He confessed his weakness, and came to the study at once to tell me of the unkind hospitality, the cruel ordeal through which he had been forced, by one really professing friendship for him. He stood the test. He is a man to-day.—Golden Censer.