p. 195 | A Challenge

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · May 6, 1880

A Challenge

A CHALLENGE by a father was answered by his son at one of Mr. J. B. Gough's lectures in Pennsylvania. At the close of the lecture a gentleman rose and was announced as Judge of the Quarter Sessions. He said, "Ladies and gentlemen, before the audience is dismissed I wish to say a few words in defense of myself and the class I represent. Now, it is very hard to have it said that I set a bad example. Now, I am a moderate drinker; a respectable moderate drinker. Who dare say anything against me? Who ever saw me the worse for drink? If young men followed my example they would be as I am, respectable and respected. I challenge the country to say whether my example is a bad one." A man in the audience, evidently under the influence of drink, here made a loud interruption. Some one said, "Put the man out," and a gentleman said, "No, let the man remain; he is the only son of the Judge—his only son has tried to follow his example, and there is the result. He is so drunk that he would disturb a respectable meeting."

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