A GOOD MAN WHO WAS A
"GOOD FELLOW"
The International Sunday School Lesson For August 31 Is a
Temperance Lesson—Daniel 1:8-20
By WILLIAM T. ELLIS
"If the good were only clever, 1
And the clever were only good.
The world would be better than ever
We thought it possibly could.
"But, oh! it is seldom or never
things happen just as they j
should:
The good are so harsh to the clever.
The clever so rude to the good." ,
Sour, sombre saints are sinners in j
several senses: but in none more j
seriously than that they arc bad ,
advertisements of religion. It is re- |
freshing that a score of million of ]
Sunday school members are this j
week to consider the case of a good- i
looking young man who was a I
"good fellow" as well as a good
man. i
Daniel advertised the success of j
high principles in a king's palace: j
—and for centuries since he has |
been a force for self-restraint and |
personal convictions among count- j
less youth. He "made good" with j
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Widow Preferred to
Meet Death at Home
"For many years I suffered from |
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tried helped me but little. All said i
1 would have to go to hospital and ;
be operated 011 for gall stones or I
would not live much longer. I told j
them I preferred to meet death at
home. One day I picked up an
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course of it more than a year j
ago have not had a single pain in
my stomach, have good appetite j
and can eat anything." It is a sim- |
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1 liis religious scruples in the high
est society: and instead of being a
kill-joy he was a social success.
Everybody, from King to palace
servant, liked Daniel and his three
companions; so that their character
and conduct reflected credit upon
their race and their faith.
Right on the sprface of the Dan
iel story lies this great truth, that
goodness should be attractive and
not repellant. There are many per
sons who honestly believe that to be
good means to be long-faced and to
look ask.-ince at the'joy of life. They
think that piety is the same as
Pharisaism and puritanism; and that
Stood times are not for good people.
Their idea of a clergyman is a long
jawed, funeral creature whose face
would scare babies and drive dogs
around the corner with their tails
between their legs.
The joke is on those who hold
this mistaken idea: for the happiest
People in the world, as well as the
healthiest: the ones who have the
,5 s * limes and the most friends, are
the sincere Christians, who. in quiet
ness and confidence, live their lives
troni a real desire to please God.
Some there doubtless are who
take a morose view of this world;
and who consider that virtue con
sists of the difficult art of foregoing
pleasures and of compelling others
to do the same. These Christians
are of the numerically small group
whose religion is negative: it con
sists of "dont's." What a small
ft action of the entire Christian fel
lowship these sour saints actually
are! Line them up alongside of the
radiant, peaceful, happy disciples,
the Daniels, who have found reli
gion good for both their bodies and
their souls, and their relative few
ness and unimportance will be dis
covered.
Captain of His Soul
This story is one of the familiar
bits of the literature of Christen
dom. Daniel and his three com
panions were educated and noble
Hebrew youths, prisoners in per
sonal attendance upon King
Aebucliadnezzer. As part of the
royal entourage, they were expected
to look well and happy. To that end
they were permitted to eat the
dainties of the king's table and to
drink of his wine. That food had
doubtless been offered to idols, and
so could not be eaten by a godly
Jew. However, these young He
brews were truly wise, and thev
knew the secret of the training
table—simple food for physical fit
ness.
Tliey were not "grouches," and
had won the good will of the chief
of the eunuchs, who tolerantly per
mitted his charges to make the ten
day experiment. All they asked
was a fair trial. Real religion is
ever ready to submit to tests. It
asks no special privileges. It can
"make good" in any honest compe
tition. Daniel and his three friends
were willing to stake all upon the
practicability of their principles.
They were what we would to-day
call "pragmatic philosophers"; their
theory worked. For, as runs the
account. "At the end of ten days
their countenances appeared fairer,
and they were fatter in fish, than
all the youths that did eat of the
king's dainties." In that incident
is wrapped up the essence of all
"dry" legislation the world around:
given a fair chance, it works.
Daniels principles of conduct
were not put into moth balls when
he moved from slow-going, old
fashioned Jerusalem to the giddy
city of Babylon. His religion would
stand exportation and transforma
tion. His convictions would wash.
For Daniel was of the breed of man
who is captain of his own soul, who
is no mere chameleon, taking the
color of his surroundings, but an
Independent, self-directing, self-re
specting volition. He dared to be
Daniel in a world where nearly
everybody else was trying to be •on
ly a reflection of Nebuchadnezzar.
Steadying Men and Drifters
It used to be the fashion to cite
the four Hebrew young men in
Babylon as examples of the benefits
of total abstinence —although they
really doubtless followed the uni
versal wine-drinking custom of
their day. Their abstinence was
merely from the rich and idolatry
tained provender of the king's ta
ble. Daniel was far more than a
doer-wlthout: he was a doer.
His contribution to our time is
opportune and constructive. He
was a purposer in his heart. That
is, he determined what was right
for himself, regardless of the pre
vailing fashions. So he dared to
live his own life, serenely, sweetly.
: strongly, in a time that was turbu
lent and vascillating.
There come to my mind in con
nection with the Daniel story some
words spoken to me nearly two
! years ago, in the Winter Palace in
Petrograd, by "the little grand
mother of the Russian Revolutjon."
Madame Breshkovsky, as she looked
me full in the face with her great
| quiet eyes: "I always had a strong
: purpose. Even as a girl I did what
ever I tho.ught it was right for me
;to do." That' is the spirit which
makes great men and women: the
j resolute subordination of desire and
convenience to an enlightened will.
Such folk steady their times. The
] world is in a panicky condition to
; day. and sadly tempted to run hith
er and thither, sheep fashion. "We
i need more Daniels, to stand, mod
; estly yet unswervingly, for What
they know to be the right. Such a
man is less concerned about mak
ing converts, or even about making
I character, than lie is about doing
what is right. He lives his own
life and respects his neighbors'
rights; which is everybody's first
duty to civilization. Ultimately, the
only real reformers are the persons
I who are simply righteous them
| selves.
Meeting tlie King's Test
A wise aphorism has it that
"Every man is responsible for his
face at fifty." Character does ulti
mately write its autograph on the
I countenance. And whether we plan
. it so or not, all of us, consciously
j or unconsciously, rryust come to the
Daniel test of being'judged by some
king—the modern king being public
opinion. Well is it for us when we
come up to that judgment if our
clean living, self-control and spirit
ual development win favor for our
faith and for ourselves.
Out of the training table of sim
plicity In the sumptuous palace of
Babylon (it was little more than a
heap of mud bricks when I saw it)
there emerge three principles that
are universally applicable:
1. It is best worth while to he
one's own best self, regardless of
current fashions.
2. Abstemiousness is better for
body and spirit than Is indulgence.
3. In life's testing times, the
trained souls are found fit. and call
ed to the places of power.
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