Counsels on Health - Ellen G. White

When you place a useless or extravagant article
of clothing upon your person, you are withholding
from the naked. When you spread your tables with
a needless variety of costly food, you are
neglecting to feed the hungry. How stands your
record, professed Christian? Do not, I beseech you,
lay out in foolish and hurtful indulgences that
which God requires in His treasury, and the portion
which should be given to the poor. Let us not
clothe ourselves with costly apparel, but, like
women professing godliness, with good works. Let
not the cry of the widow and the fatherless go up to
Heaven against us. Let not the blood of souls be
found on our garments. Let not precious
probationary time be squandered in cherishing
pride of heart. Are there no poor to be visited? no
dim eyes for whom you can read the word of God?
no desponding, discouraged ones that need your
words of comfort and your prayers? ...
Do not, my sisters, trifle longer with your own
souls and with God. I have been shown that the
main cause of your backsliding is your love of
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