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Child Guidance
Simplicity in Dress Recommends the Wearer’s Religion—
Simplicity of dress will make a sensible woman appear to the best
advantage
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 Should Be No Inappropriate Display—I would remind
the youth who ornament their persons and wear feathers upon their
hats that, because of their sins, our Saviour’s head wore the shameful
crown of thorns. When you devote precious time to trimming your
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apparel, remember that the King of glory wore a plain, seamless coat.
You who weary yourselves in decorating your persons please bear in
mind that Jesus was often weary from incessant toil and self-denial
and self-sacrifice to bless the suffering and the needy.... It was on our
account that He poured out His prayers to His Father with strong cries
and tears. It was to save us from the very pride and love of vanity and
pleasure which we now indulge, and which crowds out the love of
Jesus, that those tears were shed, and that our Saviour’s visage was
marred with sorrow and anguish more than any of the sons of men
Unnecessary Trimmings—Do without the unnecessary trim-
mings, and lay aside for the advancement of the cause of God the
means thus saved. Learn the lesson of self-denial, and teach it to your
children
13
The Review and Herald, November 17, 1904
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14
The Review and Herald, December 6, 1881
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15
Health Reformer, April, 1872
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16
Testimonies For The Church 3:376
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17
Testimonies For The Church 3:379, 380
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18
Counsels on Stewardship, 301, 302
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