Smyrna times., 1900-05-16
TEMPERANCE NOTES.
Fitted by the WOman's Christian Temperance
Union Press Superintendent.

''DARE TO BE DANIEL"
The son of president of one of our
most prominent Eastern colleges was
about leaving his native town for Paris |
to enter upon a special course in
surgery.
AS he was bidding his friends
good-by, his betrothed, obeying a sud
den impulse, whispered as her parting
word
"Charlie, dare to be Daniel!'
"Only that old saw" said he, while
a look of disappointment shadowed
his face.
"That only, Charlie, but it may
mean much to you" was the answer
The bearer of a letter of introduction
to distinguished nobleman and scien-
tist in Paris, the young American
was soon received with marked kind
illness.
In few days he was the recipient of
an invitation to small banquet at the
counts residence, at which were pres
ent some of the savants of the great
city.
During the progress of the feast the
host, filling his ruby tinted glass ian
example which his guests followed),
proposed toast ''To the wives, daugh-
ters and sweethearts of America, to
which he invited response from his
youthful guest, motioning a servant
meanwhile to fill his glass with the red
wine.
What followed can best be told in
the young mans own words:
Mother The wrote], for moment 1
was in agony of trepidation. [ would
rather have faced cannon. All had
risen, and in the hand of each was the
cup of wine, which l had pledged from
my childhood not to touch, taste, nor
handle. My head swan. Suddenly
heard the words, Dare to be Dan
ielr They shot through my head like
an electric flash. Instantly my resolu-
tion was taken. [ touched my white
glass, "a servant filled it with water.
Rising, 1 said as we'll as l could for the
great lump in my throat:
81 beg leave to say that to the typical
wife, daughter and sweethert of Amer
lea, the purity of this, natures's own
beverage, illustrates the lives they aim
to lead and the dangers which they
seek to avoid. Permit me to use it in
their dear names.
"Following the example of Count
B, every white glass was instantly
raised and the toast drunk. y Voice.
The Union Signal of May 3, thus
comments upon the Ecumenical Con-
ference on Foreign Mission, held in
New York city recently.
cone result of the Conference will
doubtless be study of moral reform
as branch of missions.
It is learned that the Lexow dis
closures in New Pork, showing the
lack of social efficiency in our churches
became on reaching Japan, factor in
a reaction against Christianity itself.
Gas for home missions, is it not
probable that a union of Christian
forces to secure Sabbath of rest in
law and custom, so that men would be
free to attend church if they chose,
would in the eud do as much to multi
ply conversions as any equal expendi-
ture ofindividual effort? And in Alaska,
would not the perpetration of the pro-
hibition law by the united efforts of
missionary societies have meant at
least the saving of souls? The effic-
iency of money contributed to missions
in Manila would certainly be greatly
multiplied if all Christians would ap-
peal to the President and Congress to
shut out the American saloons that
caricature and handicap our civilizing
and chrlstianizing efforts"