A TEMPERANCE STORY

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Dec 12, 1906

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 32, No. 48.

A TEMPERANCE STORY.

A WOMAN entered a barroom, and advanced quietly to her husband, who sat drinking with three other men. She placed a covered dish on the table, and said, "Thinking ye'd be too busy to come home to supper, Jack, I've fetched it to you here." And she departed.

The man laughed awkwardly. He invited his friends to share the meal with him. Then he removed the cover from the dish. The dish was empty. It contained only a slip of paper that said: "I hope you will enjoy your supper. It is the same your wife and children have at home."—Selected.