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A TEMPERANCE LECTURE

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Feb 11, 1897

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 23, No. 6.

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A TEMPERANCE LECTURE.

IN harmony with a widely-observed New Year's day custom, several young men called upon a young lady. Her father was also present to assist in entertaining the guests. He did not share his daughter's scruples against the use of spirituous drinks, for he had wine to offer. This was poured out, and would have been drunk, but the young lady asked:—
“Did you call upon me or upon papa?”
Gallantry, if nothing else, compelled them to answer:—
“We called on you.”
“Then you will please not drink wine. I have lemonade for my visitors.”
The father urged the guests to drink, and they were undecided.
The young lady added:—
“Remember, if you call on me, then you drink lemonade; but if upon papa, why, in that case, I have nothing to say.”
The wine-glasses were set down with their contents untasted. After leaving the house, one of the party exclaimed:—
“That was the most effectual temperance lecture I have ever heard.”
The young man from whom these facts were obtained broke off at once from the use of strong drink, and holds a grateful remembrance of the lady who gracefully and resolutely gave him to understand that her guests should not drink wine.—Selected.