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Show THE FIROT VEGETARIAN. fHE earliest testimony In favor of vegetarianism Is the caso nf tho prophet, Daniel, In tho first chapter of tho book of Danlol we nro told that when brought for caro nnd training to tho royal palace to enablO him and his threo companions com-panions to Biand boforo tho king and Intorprot wisdom Daniel objected to "doming hlmsolt -a with tho king's moat and with the wlno which ho drank." The eunuch In chargo said that ho feared tho wrath of Nob-uchndnezzar, Nob-uchndnezzar, who had appointed tho meat and drink, and that he dreaded to boo Daniel's faco "worse liking than tho children which nro of your sort." Hut tho young scholar plead with hhn for a ten days' trial of a dlot ot "pulse and wntor." Tho result, as told In Scrlpturo, was that, InBtcad of becoming "worBO liking," their faces appeared "fatlor and falror than all tho children which did cat of tho king's meat and wlno." Further we are told that thoy woro nftorwards kept on a dlot of pulse (and probably dales nnd other fruit, plenty of bread nnd wator), and thnt to thoso four children Cod "gavo knowledge and skill In all learning and wisdom," |