Dear youth, a disposition in you to dress according to the fashion, and to wear lace and gold and artificials for display, will not recommend to others your religion or the truth that you profess. People of discernment will look upon your attempts to beautify the external as proof of weak minds and proud hearts. Simple, plain, unpretending dress will be a recommendation to my youthful sisters. In no better way can you let your light shine to others than in your simplicity of dress and deportment. You may show to all that, in comparison with eternal things, you place a proper estimate upon the things of this life. {3T 376.2}

[Nu har du en gylden anledning til at danne en ren og hellig karakter for himmelen. Du har ikke råd til at anvende disse dyrebare stunder til at pryde det ydre på bekostning af din indre skønhed.] »Jeres prydelse skal ikke være noget udvortes: hårfletning og påhængte guldsmykker eller forskellig klædedragt, men hjertet, det skjulte menneske, med den uforgængelige prydelse, som en sagtmodig og stille ånd er; dette er meget værd i Guds øjne.« [Kristus alene side 307]