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California Conference of Seventh-day Adventists · Oakland, Cal. · Mar 4, 1875

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 1, No. 17.

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FASHION.

"I have seen a woman," said a late preacher, "professing to love Christ more than the world, clad in a silk dress costing $75; making up and trimming of the same, $40; bonnet (or apology for one), $35; velvet mantle, $150; diamond ring, $500; watch, chain, pin, and other trappings, $450; total, $1,250; all hung upon one frail, dying woman. I have seen her, at a meeting in behalf of homeless wanderers in New York, wipe her eyes upon an expensive embroidered handkerchief at the story of their sufferings, and, when the contribution box came around, take from a well filled portemonie of costly workmanship, twenty-five cents, to aid the society formed to promote their welfare. Ah! thought I, dollars for ribbons, and pennies for Christ."