An Order of Plain Living

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D.C. · Sep 8, 1904

An Order of Plain Living

WHEN the war chest of Frederick the Great was exhausted, he appealed to the women to lay their jewels on the altar of patriotism, promising to return jewels of iron for jewels of gold, bearing the inscription, “I gave gold for iron for the sake of the fatherland.” Out of this response to an appeal to German patriotism, there arose the Order of the Iron Cross. What we need in these last days is a new order of living, that will mean a life of economy, a life of plainer living, plainer dressing, plainer eating, less expensive recreation, a giving up of much that we want, that we may give the gift of eternal life to those who are dead in trespasses and sins.—Selected.