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1. Much of the worldly costume of our time is the cause of the temporal and eternal ruin of a multitude of men.

2. Extravagant costume is the foe of all Christian almsgiving.

3. Is distraction to public worship.

4. Belittles the intellect. Our minds are enlarged, or they dwindle just in proportion to the importance of the subject on which they constantly dwell.

5. It shuts a great multitude out of heaven. You will have to choose between the goddess of fashion and the Christian God.

(T. De Witt Talmage, D. D.)

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KJV: Moreover the LORD saith, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet:

WEB: Moreover Yahweh said, "Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with outstretched necks and flirting eyes, walking to trip as they go, jingling ornaments on their feet;