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Testimonies for the Church Volume 2
the world. Those who adopt this dress should manifest good taste
and order and strict cleanliness in all their attire. The dress should
not be adopted unless it is made right and arranged neatly. For we
should seek not to disgust unbelievers by carelessness and slackness
in our apparel, but should dress modestly, with reference to health
and neatness, that our dress may commend itself to the judgment of
candid minds.
You need clear, energetic minds, in order to appreciate the ex-
alted character of the truth, to value the atonement, and to place the
right estimate upon eternal things. If you pursue a wrong course,
and indulge in wrong habits of eating, and thereby weaken the intel-
lectual powers, you will not place that high estimate upon salvation
and eternal life which will inspire you to conform your life to the life
of Christ; you will not make those earnest, self-sacrificing efforts
for entire conformity to the will of God, which His word requires,
and which are necessary to give you a moral fitness for the finishing
touch of immortality.
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