Two Experiences

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D.C. · Apr 18, 1912

A TOILER

A SISTER who has kept the Sabbath less than a year, told the writer that she could not induce her daughter to discontinue wearing her rings and bracelet. The daughter is a bright, promising young girl; has cast her lot with God's remnant people, and received baptism at the close of a series of our meetings last fall.

She laid off her jewelry at the time of her baptism, and did not wear it until recently. When counseled with, she replied, “Mother, I can not understand why it should be worse for me to wear these than for Sister — [one of the leading church-members] to wear that long gold chain about her neck.”

Some time ago the writer was connected with a tent effort at —. An older sister in the church unfortunately, seemed to have rather a poor conception as to how a Christian should dress. A lady who had accepted the truth a short time before, upon being instructed in the Bible plan of modesty in dress, was heard to remark, “I think I have just as good a right to wear short sleeves, low-necked dresses, corsets, and rats as that sister has; so I do not think I’ll make any change in that line.”

Little do many of our sisters realize their unconscious influence in dress, either for good or for bad. Paul says,

“We are made a spectacle unto the world, and to angels, and to men.” 1 Cor. 4:9. He admonishes “that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, . . . not with broided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array; but (which becometh women professing godliness) with good works.” 1 Tim. 2:9, 10.

“Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel [nor, in these last days, too much taking off of apparel]; but let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price. For after this manner in the old time the holy women also, who trusted in God, adorned themselves.” 1 Peter 3:3-5.

God has given us much valuable instruction in reference to these matters through the spirit of prophecy. The healthfulness and beauty of “modest apparel” as exemplified in dress reform are attractive to the sensible, and elevating to womanhood.

May more of our sisters become truly loyal spectacles “to the world, and to angels, and to men.”