To the Sisters by L. C. Tolhurst

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 24, 1863

To the Sisters.

By L. C. Tolhurst

My mind has so often been led to reflect upon the injury done by us in little things, that I am constrained to say a few words through the Review. As a people, we, the Seventh-day Adventists, profess more than the world, or the churches; and while some carry out their profession, how often are we made to blush by seeing sisters in different places coming among us with their hoops and other articles of useless dress on. I well know that when the tent is pitched in new places, and all these things pertaining to the third angel's message rush upon the mind, that time and patience is required for the development of character; but when the mind is sufficiently enlightened upon these things, shall we not cut loose from fashions which do not serve to our growth in grace and truth, and thereby not only glorify God, but show to the world that we are trying to live out what we profess?

Dear sisters in Ohio, let us not be behind in this matter. Then as we come together to quarterly meetings, and mix with the world and strangers, we shall glorify God. As we know from the Bible, and the testimony to the church, that it will please our heavenly King, should we not rejoice to take up every cross, and do every duty in matters so plain, that we know the approbation of a wise God rests upon us? For one, I am ashamed to introduce to unbelievers a sister Sabbath-keeper with hoops and other extremes of this kind still hanging about her.

May we, one and all, arise, take unto ourselves the whole armor, that we may be able to fight the battles of the Lord, and, if faithful, he will soon bring us off victorious over all the besetments of our fallen nature, and we shall be prepared for the refreshing that is coming from the Lord, then soon receive immortality and reign as kings and priests with our Saviour forever.

L. C. TOLHURST.

Copopa, Ohio.