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Who Rules?

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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 14, 1868

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 32, No. 8.

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Who Rules?

FASHION rules the world; and a most tyrannical mistress she is;—compelling people to submit to the most inconvenient things imaginable for her sake.
She pinches our feet with tight shoes, or chokes us with tight neckerchief, or squeezes the breath out of our body by tight lacing.
She makes people sit up by night, when they ought to be in bed; and keeps them in bed in the morning, when they ought to be up and doing.
She makes it vulgar to wait on one's self, and genteel to lie idle and useless.
She makes people visit when they had rather stay at home, eat when they are not hungry, and drink when they are not thirsty.
She invades our pleasures and interrupts our business.
She compels people to dress gayly, whether upon their own property or that of others, whether agreeable to the word of God, or the dictates of pride.
She ruins health, and produces sickness, destroys life, and occasions premature death.
She makes fools of parents, invalids of children, and servants of all.
She is a tormentor of conscience, a despoiler of morality, and an enemy of religion, and no one can be her companion and enjoy either.
She is a despot of the highest grade, full of intrigue and cunning, and husbands, wives, fathers, mothers, sons, daughters, and servants, black and white, have voluntarily become her obedient subjects and slaves, and vie with one another to see who shall be the most obsequious.