Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    When God Asked Women to Wear Pants - Important Spiritual and Health Principles for Dress
    When God Asked Women to Wear Pants - Important Spiritual and Health Principles for Dress
    When God Asked Women to Wear Pants - Important Spiritual and Health Principles for Dress
    Ebook75 pages1 hour

    When God Asked Women to Wear Pants - Important Spiritual and Health Principles for Dress

    By Vernon Sparks M.D.

    ()

    Read preview

    About this ebook

    Hardly any discussion in Christianity can become more heated than one surrounding whether proper dress for women includes slacks or pants. Many will be surprised to know that there are inspired counsels in support of such attire, but with clearly defined conditions. To our great detriment and loss, society and most Christians largely ignore these counsels.

    What does Inspiration tell us is healthful? What is modest? What are the principles we can apply today? By a study of human physiology and the Inspired Counsels, the author draws some interesting, thought-provoking, practical, useful, and challenging observations. Many of the principles derived are applicable also to the clothing of men and children.

    “In all respects the dress should be healthful. ‘Above all things,’ God desires us to ‘be in health’—health of body and of soul. And we are to be workers together with Him for the health of both soul and body. Both are promoted by healthful dress.”The Ministry of Healing, 288.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLulu.com
    Release dateJul 16, 2013
    ISBN9781304236142
    When God Asked Women to Wear Pants - Important Spiritual and Health Principles for Dress

    Related to When God Asked Women to Wear Pants - Important Spiritual and Health Principles for Dress

    Related ebooks

    Wellness For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Staying Home In Style

      Nov 12, 2020

      Staying Home In Style
      3 min read

    • Article

      Give Birth on Your Own Turf

      Nov 6, 2020

      Give Birth on Your Own Turf
      5 min read

    • Article

      Purple Reign

      Jan 20, 2022

      Purple Reign
      4 min read

    • Article

      TIPs FOR KNITS

      Dec 9, 2020

      Jersey knit is known as single knit. It has a lengthwise stretch making it suitable for dresses, tops and lingerie. Double knits are firm. They have only moderate stretch which makes them suitable for jackets, suits and pants. Interlock knit has a

      2 min read

    • Article

      Little Golden Books

      Oct 1, 2020

      Little Golden Books
      2 min read

    • Article

      Clothes Make The Man Or Woman

      Feb 14, 2019

      In my letter for the preceding issue of ARCHAEOLOGY, I considered the typical diet of Galilean villagers in the time of Jesus. Soon after, a documentary television producer asked me about ancient Jewish clothing, and I started thinking about what vil

      2 min read

    • Article

      Body Goals

      Aug 20, 2020

      Body Goals
      7 min read

    • Article

      When Plump Was A Pleasing Word

      Apr 12, 2018

      It was only at the turn of the 20th century that a high enough proportion of Westerners had so much food that thinness resulting from self-denial became the standard of beauty.

      2 min read

    • Article

      The Age Of Emancipation

      Feb 16, 2023

      The Age Of Emancipation
      5 min read

    • Article

      Darwin’s Revolution In Thought

      Jan 4, 2023

      God created the heavens and the Earth some 6000 years ago. He filled the planet with plants and animals, and finally he created man and woman. All existing species descend from the animals that survived God’s flood aboard Noah’s Ark. That is Genesis

      3 min read

    • Article

      THE (not so) STINKY MIDDLE AGES

      Dec 27, 2019

      THE (not so) STINKY MIDDLE AGES
      7 min read

    • Article

      Q&A

      Apr 13, 2023

      Q&A
      2 min read

    • Article

      À La Mode

      Apr 16, 2021

      À La Mode
      5 min read

    • Article

      Breast In Show

      Nov 23, 2023

      Breast In Show
      6 min read

    • Article

      The Medieval Shock Of Thenew

      May 25, 2023

      IN 1700 A MATHEMATICIAN submitted a paper to the Royal Society in which he attempted to calculate, among other things, the rate at which oral testimony — that is, memory — decayed over long periods of time. It’s a quixotic idea, to be sure, but that

      4 min read

    • Article

      The Commons

      Apr 20, 2020

      The Commons
      5 min read

    • Article

      How To Die In Texas

      Nov 1, 2020

      How To Die In Texas
      8 min read

    • Article

      Medieval Hygiene

      Aug 12, 2021

      It is usually presumed that medieval people were dirty and that they did not practise good personal hygiene. Is this true? Definitely not! There is actually a surprising amount of evidence to show that medieval people not only washed but that they ac

      3 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for When God Asked Women to Wear Pants - Important Spiritual and Health Principles for Dress

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

      Book preview

      When God Asked Women to Wear Pants - Important Spiritual and Health Principles for Dress - Vernon Sparks M.D.

      When God Asked Women to Wear Pants - Important Spiritual and Health Principles for Dress

      When God Asked Women to Wear Pants

      -

      Important Spiritual and Health Principles for Dress

      by

      Vernon Sparks, M.D.

      Copyright © 1995, 2002

      Vernon Sparks M.D.

      ISBN 978-1-304-23614-2

      Published

      by

      D

      igital

      I

      nspiration

      1481 Reagan Valley Road

      Tellico Plains, TN 37385

      www.vsdigitalinspiration.com

      When God Asked Women to Wear Pants,

      Chapter 1

      GOD’S METHOD OF SETTLINGthe issues of the great controversy between Christ and Satan includes a final generation living in harmony with the physical and spiritual laws of the universe.

      The time of the end of Daniel 12:4 indeed ushered in a time when knowledge shall be increased. The last two centuries have been characterized by an opening of man’s mind to the great truths of the Bible and also to the laws of the natural world. For humanity to be brought to a final decision to either serve the Creator God or to serve self, sin, and Satan, it was necessary for God to reveal His will for the physical, mental, social, and spiritual aspects of man’s life.

      For a final generation to demonstrate through their lives of obedience the efficacy of Christ’s life, death, heavenly ministry, and His ability to save His people from their sins in the vindication of God’s character, it was necessary for humanity to know, in an increased degree, the principles of His kingdom. To help identify His remnant people and to give them a clearer, more specific understanding of His will, God gave the remnant movement an end-time messenger—Ellen G. White.

      Some nineteen years after the Great Disappointment, God began giving His people a clearer understanding of health reform through a vision to Ellen White on June 6, 1863. In 1865, she introduced the remnant people to the relationship between dress and health with these words: Mothers have been in the practice of dressing their infants in reference to fashion instead of health. Selected Messages, book 2, 465. My sisters, there is need of a dress reform among us. There are many errors in the present style of female dress. Ibid., 473.

      In the 1800s, Satan clearly had great success in devising styles of women’s dress that proved an injury to physical and moral health. Counsels on Health, 599. The fashionable woman’s attire consisted of laced corsets worn for the purpose of forming a wasp-like waist having a diameter of no more than twenty inches. The long dress reached to the ground and trailed behind, tending to sweep up dirt and filth. Multilayered, heavy, ruffled underskirts or petticoats were supported on the waist and hips, thus compressing the internal organs further. Large hoops, worn to distend the skirts, tended to allow the air to chill the lower limbs and made immodest exposure inevitable as the women had to raise the skirts to avoid the filth of the streets and to board or disembark from public conveyances.

      The fashionable dress was also very inconvenient, occupying the woman’s mind and hands as she moved about out-of-doors.

      The long dress is very inconvenient in walking upon the streets in crowded villages and cities. The long skirts sweep up the tobacco spittle, and all manner of filth. In this case, fashion attaches to women cloth used as a mop. If she goes out after a shower, when all nature is refreshed and smiling in gladness, and the birds seem to be having a grand jubilee, and everything in nature is gloriously attractive, her thoughts are upon her dress. Both hands are required to elevate the dress, lest it becomes drabbled. And with her very best efforts this is not prevented altogether. The Health Reformer, April 1, 1872.

      Even before the Lord gave messages condemning the fashions of the 1800s, society itself was beginning to awaken to the multiple problems of improper dress. One popular journal reported a physician as stating that nearly half of the business of the medical profession was regarding health problems of the organs in the lower part of the abdomen of women caused by improper dress. The Household as quoted in The Health Reformer, November 1, 1871.

      More than a decade prior to Ellen White’s first written message on dress reform a member of Congress, the Honorable Gerrett Smith, was quoted as follows:

      A reformation in the dress of women is very much needed. It is indispensable to her health and usefulness. While in the prison of the present dress, she is, and ever will remain, comparatively unhealthful and useless. The Story of Our Health Message, 113.

      In the early 1850s, a group of prominent women began a movement to change women’s styles of dress. Their reform ideas regarding women’s dress were accepted and promoted by the physicians of Dr. James Jackson’s health institute then at Glen Haven and later at Danville, New York. The reform was promoted widely through their publication Water Cure Journal and later Laws of Life. Their reform dress did away with the constricting corsets and dragging, heavy skirts. Their dress was about to the knee (later raised to mid-thigh), and the limbs were clothed with trousers. Originally, the trousers were quite full and were called bloomers, but later they were quite straight and mannish. Their reform dress style became known as the American Costume. It was promoted through several private publications and also national conventions which were widely covered by the public news media. Its reputation was tarnished in the minds of some because it was adopted by spiritualists. See ibid., 113–118.

      Ellen White’s messages from the Lord were thus not the first regarding reform in women’s dress, nor were they the most publicized. As Satan so often does, he tried to preempt God’s timing for a reformation and led the popular reform movement to go from one extreme to another. The Lord’s messenger acknowledged that the American Costume solved many of the health problems of the fashionable, dragging-skirt style, but also that immodesty was increased and that it was patterned after the clothing of men. Thus, neither

      Enjoying the preview?
      Page 1 of 1