11/08/2022
OUR AGE OF IMMORALITY - THE SIN OF SOCIETY
"HOW WE DRESS SAYS VOLUMES ABOUT OUR RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE "
"Mrs. White wrote about the dress of three companies of women as they had been presented to her in vision:
âThe first were of fashionable length, burdening the limbs, impeding the step, and sweeping the street and gathering its filth; the evil results of which I have fully stated. This class, who were slaves to fashion, appeared feeble and languid.
âThe dress of the second class which passed before me was in many respects as it should be. The limbs were well clad. They were free from the burdens which the tyrant, Fashion, had imposed upon the first class; but had gone to that extreme in the short dress as to disgust and prejudice good people, and destroy in a great measure their own influence. This is the style and influence of the âAmerican Costume,â taught and worn by many at âOur Home,â Dansville, N.Y. It does not reach to the knee. I need not say that this style of dress was shown me to be too short.
âA third class passed before me with cheerful countenances, and free, elastic step. Their dress was the length I have described as proper, modest and healthful. It cleared the filth of the street and side-walk a few inches under all circumstances, such as ascending and descending steps, etc.â The Review and Herald, October 8, 1867
âChristians should not take pains to make themselves a gazingstock by dressing differently from the world. But if, when following out their convictions of duty in respect to dressing modestly and healthfully, they find themselves out of fashion, they should not change their dress in order to be like the world; but they should manifest a noble independence and moral courage to be right, if all the world differ from them. If the world introduce a modest, convenient, and healthful mode of dress, which is in accordance with the Bible, it will not change our relation to God or to the world to adopt such a style of dress. Christians should follow Christ and make their dress conform to Godâs word. They should shun extremes.â Testimonies for the Church 1:458, 459.
IMMORALITY:
"Zimri, one of the nobles of Israel, came boldly into the camp accompanied by a Midianite pr******te, whom he brought to his tent. Never was wicked behavior more bold or stubborn. Zimri was showing himself to be as sinful as S***m, and he was proud of his shameful acts (Numbers 25).
The priests and leaders had bowed low in grief and humiliation, pleading with the Lord to spare His people, while this prince in Israel was showing off his sin in the sight of the congregation, as if to defy the vengeance of God and make fun of the judges of the nation. Phinehas, the son of Eleazar the high priest, got up, and seizing a javelin âwent after the man of Israel into the tentâ and killed them both. So the plague was stopped, and the priest who had carried out the divine judgment was honored in front of all Israel." BOE 225
