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amount of heat. Parents who dress their children with the extremities
naked, or nearly so, are sacrificing the health and lives of their children
to fashion. If these parts are not so warm as the body, the circulation is
not equalized. When the extremities, which are remote from the vital
organs, are not properly clad, the blood is driven to the head, causing
headache or nosebleed; or there is a sense of fullness about the chest,
producing cough or palpitation of the heart, on account of too much
blood in that locality; or the stomach has too much blood, causing
indigestion.
In order to follow the fashions, mothers dress their children with
limbs nearly naked; and the blood is chilled back from its natural
course and thrown upon the internal organs, breaking up the circulation
and producing disease. The limbs were not formed by our Creator to
endure exposure, as was the face. The Lord provided, ... also, large
veins and nerves for the limbs and feet, to contain a large amount of
the current of human life, that the limbs might be uniformly as warm
as the body. They should be so thoroughly clothed as to induce the
blood to the extremities.
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Satan invented the fashions which leave the limbs exposed, chilling
back the life current from its original course. And parents bow at the
shrine of fashion and so clothe their children that the nerves and veins
become contracted, and do not answer the purpose that God designed
they should. The result is habitually cold feet and hands. Those parents
who follow fashion instead of reason will have an account to render
to God for thus robbing their children of health. Even life itself is
frequently sacrificed to the god of fashion
A Distinction in Dress of Men and Women—There is an increas-
ing tendency to have women in their dress and appearance as near like
the other sex as possible and to fashion their dress very much like that
of men, but God pronounces it abomination. “In like manner also, that
women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and
sobriety.”
1 Timothy 2:9
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God designed that there should be a plain distinction between the
dress of men and women, and has considered the matter of sufficient
importance to give explicit directions in regard to it; for the same
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