Verse 10
10. Good works Are the true ornamentation of the Christian lady. She need make no display of asceticism, nor spend her time, money, and health in elaborating a singular plainness of style. Nor is it any virtue to dress cheaply to hoard money in the coffers. It is a poor sham to mistake cheap apparel for humility, when its savings are laid up for one’s children, perhaps to squander in dissipation. But a great appropriateness to her profession of godliness it is if she studies a true simplicity of taste, and spends what she saves by avoidance of extravagance in charities and good works. And all this good advice may be addressed, perhaps with double force, to the Christian gentleman. The money burnt up in cigars, and that largely by Christian men, might give the gospel to the world.
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