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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Sep 30, 1880

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 6, No. 36.

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REFINED.

To be refined means not to be overnice. Refinement is not luxury. It is nothing of this kind, it is far removed from excess or waste. A person truly refined will not squander or needlessly consume anything. Refinement is always closely united with simplicity, and a tasteful employment of the means of good which it has at command. Refinement leads to personal cleanliness, neatness, good taste, and simplicity in dress. At home, whether elegant or humble, the same neatness abounds. The refined person and the mere pretender are very different. In the former you will find no gaudiness or false glittering, but with the latter these abound. In personal manners, refinement is most conspicuous. A lady of refinement is always polite without ostentation. There is no refinement like that of the heart, which bids us show a kind regard to the feelings of others.