One year ago the subject of dress was again presented before me. I saw that our sisters were departing from the simplicity of the gospel. The very ones who had felt that the reform dress required unnecessary labor, and who claimed that they would not be influenced by the spirit of the world, had now taken up the fashions they once condemned. Their dresses were arranged with all the unnecessary adornments of worldlings in a manner unbecoming to Christians and entirely at variance with our faith. {4T 637.5}

For et år siden blev klædespørgsmålet igen fremstillet for mig. Jeg så at vore søstre forlod evangeliets enkelhed. De få som havde følt at klædereformen (638) ikke krævede særligt arbejde og som påstod at de ikke ville påvirkes af verdens ånd, havde nu antaget den mode de tidligere havde fordømt. Deres klæder blev arrangeret med alle unødige verdslige udsmykninger på en måde der er kristne upassende og helt forskellig fra vor tro.