Joseph F. Smith describes garments as unchanged.

Date
Dec 31, 1906
Type
Periodical
Source
Joseph F. Smith
LDS
Hearsay
Direct
Reference

"Editor's Table," Improvement Era, vol. 9 (1906): 813

Scribe/Publisher
Improvement Era
People
Joseph F. Smith
Audience
Latter-day Saints
Transcription

The Lord has given unto us garments of the holy priesthood, and you know what that means. And yet there are those of us who mutilate them, in order that we may follow the foolish vain and (permit me to say) indecent practices of the world. In order that such people may imitate the fashions, they will not hesitate to mutilate that which should be held by them the most sacred of all things in the world, next to their own virtue, next to their own purity of life. They should hold these things that God has given unto them sacred, unchanged and unaltered from the very pattern in which God gave them. Let us have the moral courage to stand against the opinions of fashion, and especially where fashion compels us to break a covenant and so commit a grievous sin.

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