Dress for Winter Weather

It is a concern to see anyone out in the weather in winter on a cold day inadequately dressed. Bare legs, bare arms, bare head. Look at the animals. God has clothed them with fur or feathers from head to toe. But it is especially distressing to see someone who should know better, dressing in a way that endangers their health. Because worldlings wear pants, and our dear sisters discard that mode of dress, they sometimes end up dressing so that their lower limbs are not adequately protected. In fact, I would say this is more often the case than not.

When I attended the SDA church I noticed some sisters who would normally be wearing pants on the regular days of the week. But on Sabbath they dress differently – wearing skirts, nylons, and dress shoes – in winter! More than one of these young women have gone to their graves in the last few years. I remember seeing one of them during a church service, come out into the foyer where I was, saying “I’m so cold!” She was shivering.

No wonder!–the way she thought she had to dress. She is one of the young women whose funeral we attended in the recent past. What! Are we going to follow blindly along? Thinking we are honouring God by “dressing up” or rather not dressing up?

The other day, not mentioning any names, a dear sister showed up at my door on a bitterly cold Sabbath day with bare legs and skimpy shoes.

“EDUCATE! EDUCATE! EDUCATE!”

Our Lord said. So, please read the following carefully and prayerfully: “Another evil which custom fosters is the unequal distribution of the clothing, so that while some parts of the body have more than is required, others are insufficiently clad. The feet and limbs, being remote from the vital organs, should be especially guarded from cold by abundant clothing. It is impossible to have health when the extremities are habitually cold; for if there is too little blood in them there will be too much in other portions of the body. Perfect health requires a perfect circulation; but this cannot be had while three or four times
as much clothing is worn upon the body, where the vital organs are situated, as upon the feet and limbs.” MH “Dress”
“Whatsoever He saith unto you, do.”
AMEN

Kathleen Ross , Alberta, Canada