Daniel 1:15

At the end of ten days their countenances appeared fairer.

At the end of the ten days they were fairer, more beautiful and healthful than before. The experiment had been successful. It is not needful that we should suppose anything miraculous in the results. It is God's order that one of the results of. course of temperance should appear in the countenance, and it is. wise arrangement that it is so. He has arranged that while the other parts of the body are covered the face is exposed.. course of indulgence, intemperance in food, or drink, or debauchery, will show itself in the countenance. The drunkard, the glutton and the debauchee proclaim their own shame. Sir Charles Bell, in the Anatomy of Expression, says that "the bloated face, the haggard aspect, the look of folly, the heaviness of the eye, the disposition to squint, and to see double, and. forcible elevation of the eyebrow to counteract the dropping of the upper lid, and preserve the eyes from closing, are all marks which God has appointed to expose and to betray. life of self-indulgence." On the other hand,. pure life,. clear conscience, and healthful food and drink, declare in the countenance the temperance and purity of conduct. Youths who live on simple food and drink water, and maintain pure, moral conduct, will have brighter, purer, manlier countenances. "God put. mark on Cain." How often is. similar mark, the mark of sin, placed on boys and young men!