Daniel 1:16

Then Melzar took away the portion of their meat, and the wine.

This was now done permanently. It was regarded safe to continue. regimen that had produced such satisfactory results. Abstinence had proved better than indulgence. The great temperance experiment had recorded. victory for temperance right in the royal palace. So every time since, when the matter has been put to. test. Recently it was stared of Gen. Wolseley's soldiers on the Upper Nile, that the total abstainers stood the fatigues of the campaign best. The Roman soldier, one of the hardiest the world has ever seen, in the palmy days of the Republic, drank only vinegar and water. The wrestlers in the Olympic games abstained from wine. It has been settled by. thousand experiments that the cold water drinker can do more work, do it better, stand more fatigue, march farther, endure heat or cold better, and be far less liable to disease or to contagion than one who uses intoxicating drinks. Their use is wholly evil, and without apology.