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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jul 26, 1899

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 25, No. 30.

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Of One

Of One.—Says a Catholic writer, in speaking of the cruelty of fashion in corsets, hats, and shoes: “If these disciplines were for religious mortification there would be some sense in their adoption; but, in point of fact, they are pitiful tributes to the unspiritual god ‘fashion,’ and are therefore vicious instead of meritorious.”
But there is no sense in the mortification of the flesh in religion. In fashion it is pride, in religion it is fear that regulates such senseless observances. The God of heaven does not require such. Such practices are the worship of a false god, one with fashion—carnal.