Proper Dress
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Health and Cleanliness
Our dress should be cleanly. Uncleanliness in dress is unhealthful,
and thus defiling to the body and to the soul. “Ye are the temple of
God... If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy.”
1
Corinthians 3:16, 17
.
In all respects the dress should be healthful. “Above all things,”
God desires us to “be in health” (
3 John 1:2
)—health of body and of
soul. And we are to be workers together with Him for the health of
both soul and body. Both are promoted by healthful dress.
Grace and Natural Beauty
It should have the grace, the beauty, the appropriateness of natural
simplicity.
Christ has warned us against the pride of life, but not against its
grace and natural beauty. He pointed to the flowers of the field, to
the lily unfolding in its purity, and said, “Even Solomon in all his
glory was not arrayed like one of these.”
Matthew 6:29
. Thus by the
things of nature Christ illustrates the beauty that Heaven values, the
modest grace, the simplicity, the purity, the appropriateness, that would
make our attire pleasing to Him.—
Counsels to Parents, Teachers, and
Students, 302-303
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