Children's Dress | AdventAI

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Aug 26, 1875

Children's Dress.

MUCH has been written of late on the subject of dress. "What shall we wear?" "How much may we spend in unnecessary dress." These are questions that are agitating the minds of Christian women. Some few, at least, are taking a decided stand against the artificial trappings of pride and extravagance. But would it not be well for Christian mothers to begin at the root of this great evil? How can we expect our grown-up daughters to easily lay aside the fashion and follies of the day when they have been trained to it from the cradle? While our little ones are decorated in all the paraphernalia of fashion, and their little minds poisoned by a love of admiration and vain show, how can we expect to make much progress in this reformation, so much needed in the church?

How soon this overdressing of the body strikes to the heart, and manifests itself in the actions of the child. How quickly the child copies the example set before it. If the mother daily discusses "the latest fashion," "the most becoming style," in the presence of her children, will they not naturally conclude that the highest point to be aimed at in life is to dress, and to be fashionable? Oh! what a sad sight to see Christian mothers consulting the dressmaker, studying the fashion plates, and spending so much precious time fashioning garments for the little children God has given them to train up for Heaven. Christian mothers, how much time do you spend studying the Scriptures and seeking after knowledge and wisdom, that you may be enabled to lead your little ones to Him who has said, "Suffer little children to come unto me?"—The Christian Woman.