A WORD TO THE SISTERS by Mrs. E. A. Phillips

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 9, 1901

A WORD TO THE SISTERS.

By Mrs. E. A. Phillips

MRS. E. A. PHILLIPS.

While visiting at my brother's a short time ago, his wife asked me if plain dress is not a part of our creed. She said she had always supposed that it was, but the day before, a gentleman working in the interest of Sunday-schools—sister is a Methodist—called on her, and during their conversation, she spoke of the Adventists and their plain dress, and expressed the wish that plainness of dress might be more generally accepted. The gentleman told her that she was mistaken about the Adventists, as he had been in Battle Creek, and they were the most stylish church in the city; and a lady who was present supported him by saying that she had been told the same of Adventists at Sac City.

I told her that we have no creed but the Bible, and that our people teach plainness of dress from the Bible standpoint, quoting, 1 Tim. 2:9, 10. I also told her that I never had been in Battle Creek or Sac City, but that I had been at several of our large camp-meetings, and as a rule our sisters were dressed plainly.

Now, dear sisters, let us be more watchful and particular about our apparel, that we shall bring no reproach upon the cause we love so dearly; but let us adorn ourselves as becometh women professing godliness. If love of dress is a besetting sin with any of us, Jesus will help us to overcome it, and if we ask Him, will give us “even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.”