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Dress Plainly

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 17, 1872

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 41, No. 1.

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Dress Plainly.

SOME one has given the following reasons why people should dress plainly on Sunday. These reasons are as valid any other day in the week. Here they are:—
  1. It would lessen the burden of many who now find it hard to maintain their places in society.
  2. It would lessen the force of the temptations which often lead men to barter their honor and honesty for display.
  3. If there was less strife in dress at church, people in moderate circumstances would be more inclined to attend.
  4. Universal moderation in dress at church would improve the worship by the removal of many wandering thoughts.
  5. It would enable all classes of people to attend church in unfavorable weather.
  6. It would lessen, on the part of the rich, the temptations to vanity.
  7. It would lessen, on the part of the poor, the temptation to be envious and malicious.
  8. It would save valuable time on the Sabbath.
  9. It would relieve our means from a serious pressure, and thus enable us to do more for good enterprises.