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Choose the Robe Woven in Heaven’s Loom, September 10
They shall walk with me in white: for they are worthy.
Revelation 3:4
.
Lead the youth to see that in dress, as in diet, plain living is indispensable
to high thinking. Lead them to see how much there is to learn and to do; how
precious are the days of youth as a preparation for the lifework. Help them to
see what treasures there are in the Word of God, in the book of nature, and in the
records of noble lives.
Let their minds be directed to the suffering which they might relieve. Help
them to see that by every dollar squandered in display, the spender is deprived of
means for feeding the hungry, clothing the naked, and comforting the sorrowful.
They cannot afford to miss life’s glorious opportunities, to dwarf their minds,
to ruin their health, and to wreck their happiness, for the sake of obedience to
mandates that have no foundation in reason, in comfort, or in comeliness.
At the same time the young should be taught to recognize the lesson of nature,
“He hath made every thing beautiful in its time” (
Ecclesiastes 3:11
, R.V.). In
dress, as in all things else, it is our privilege to honor our Creator. He desires our
clothing to be not only neat and healthful, but appropriate and becoming.
A person’s character is judged by his style of dress. A refined taste, a cultivated
mind, will be revealed in the choice of simple and appropriate attire. Chaste
simplicity in dress, when united with modesty of demeanor, will go far toward
surrounding a young woman with that atmosphere of sacred reserve which will be
to her a shield from a thousand perils.
Let girls be taught that the art of dressing well includes the ability to make
their own clothing.... It will be a means of usefulness and independence that she
cannot afford to miss....
Let the youth and little children be taught to choose for themselves that royal
robe woven in heaven’s loom—the “fine linen, clean and white” (
Revelation 19:8
),
which all the holy ones of earth will wear. This robe, Christ’s own spotless
character, is freely offered to every human being. But all who receive it will
receive and wear it here.
Let the children be taught that as they open their minds to pure, loving thoughts
and do loving and helpful deeds, they are clothing themselves with His beautiful
garment of character. This apparel will make them beautiful and beloved here, and
will hereafter be their title of admission to the palace of the King. His promise is:
“They shall walk with me in white: for they are worthy.”—
Education, 248, 249
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