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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Apr 15, 1873

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 41, No. 18.

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Christian Attire.

How may a Christian girl dress? How many ruffles? Ear-rings? or not? How far may she follow the fashions?
That question is more difficult than the one about baptism. The love of personal ornamentation is by no means to be denied. There is a logic of love better than the logic of the head, and a Christian girl will settle these questions best by doing nothing that conflicts with a whole-hearted love of Christ. She will dress modestly, because a Christian heart shuns all vanity; she will not dress extravagantly, because a Christian girl will remember the poor. She will not expend her love of adornment on the exterior chiefly, for a Christian girl will not forget that a meek and quiet spirit is a brighter ornament than diamonds.—Sel.