Spalding and Magan's Unpublished Manuscript Testimonies - Ellen G. White

should adopt. This is not so. But something as
simple as this would be the best we could adopt
under the circumstances. No one precise style has
been given me as the exact rule to guide in their
dress. But this I know, that the very same
objections, only much stronger, exist today as
when the short dress was discarded. The Lord has
not indicated that it is the duty of our sisters to go
back to the reform dress. Simple dresses should be
worn. Try your talents, my sister, in this essential
reform.
The people of God will have all the test that
they can bear. The Sabbath question is a test that
will come to the whole world. We need nothing to
come in now to make a test for God's people that
shall make more severe for them the test than they
already have. The enemy would be pleased to get
up issues now to divert the minds of the people,
and to get them into a controversy over this subject
of dress. Let our sisters dress plainly, as many do,
in having the dress of good material, durable,
modest, appropriate for this age, and let not the
dress question fill the mind. ...
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