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Ancient and Modern Idolatry: Fashionable Attire Clayton F. Derstine

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Fashionable and showy dressing has been, is yet, and always will be an idol. To bring it into court for judgment should not be necessary, for it has not one thing in its favor. It is an idol just as detestable as that which the Israelites worshiped when they forsook God, their Maker, to bow down to the golden calf and Baal and the host of heaven.
God did not even think it fit to impanel a jury of men or angels to bring Israel to trial, but He considered them condemned before a jury of oxen and asses. "The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib," "yet my people have forgotten me days without number."
An idol is a thing loved to excess. Dress is to many an object of greater devotion than the God of the universe, in whom they live and move and have their being; an object of greater attraction than the Lord Jesus Christ, who gave all, "became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich."
Sin and dress on earth were born the same day and have manifested identical characteristics down through the ages. Pride was born in heaven in the heart of Lucifer. Since its beginning it has been noticeable in myriads of ways. The dressing of the body has been one of the main outlets of that heinous thing--pride.
The entire history of dress is not very flattering. Adam and Eve started the tailoring business in a wrong way. The covering of fig leaves lacked in material and in cleansing power. God undertook for them at once. The job of clothing the guilty pair was a costly one for the Lord. The blood spilt to secure the skin of the beast for a covering was only a check written out in advance till His own Son would come four thousand years afterward, to satisfy justice and deposit full value in the bank of heaven, sufficient to forgive and clothe every sinner in creation with the robe of His righteousness and salvation.
35 pages. Paper. Maranatha Press.

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