Counsel Concerning Dress
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Dress as Christians should dress—simply, plainly adorn yourselves
as becometh women professing godliness, with good works.
Many, in order to keep pace with absurd fashion, lose their taste for
natural simplicity and are charmed with the artificial. They sacrifice
time and money, the vigor of intellect, and true elevation of soul, and
devote their entire being to the claims of fashionable life.
Dear youth, a disposition in you to dress according to the fashion,
and to wear lace, and gold, and artificials for display, will not recom-
mend to others your religion or the truth that you profess. People of
discernment will look upon your attempts to beautify the external as
proof of weak minds and proud hearts
There is a dress which every child and youth may innocently seek
to obtain. It is the righteousness of the saints. If they will only be as
willing and persevering in obtaining this as they are in fashioning their
garments after the standard of worldly society, they will very soon be
clothed with the righteousness of Christ, and their names will not be
blotted out of the book of life. Mothers, as well as youth and children,
need to pray, “Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right
spirit within me.”
Psalm 51:10
. This purity of heart and loveliness of
spirit are more precious than gold, both for time and for eternity. Only
the pure in heart shall see God
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