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Dressing Children

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 13, 1869

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 34, No. 3.

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Dressing Children.

PARENTS who permit young children to go with bare necks, and almost bare legs, in the changeable climate of this latitude, are as heartlessly cruel as the heathen mother who immolates her child; and although the result is not so certain in regard to any particular victim, yet we believe that more children are thus annually sacrificed upon the altar of fashion, in proportion to our population, than are destroyed in the superstitious rites of people who are less cultivated.