Black
and white alike are sacrificing health and salvation by molding their
bodies to look like those icons of beauty. The simple comfort of having a
good night's rest is forfeited by trying to preserve a hair style. Many
hours are spent in the beauty parlors trying to improve self, rather than on our
knees praying for the power of God to suppress self. The burning pain of
the perming cream is endured for straight long hair, while the possibility of
developing cancer rises. There is no such thing as bad hair. The
door of perception needs to be cleansed for many African American women, so that
they may realize that they are beautiful. There is nothing wrong with your
hair. The reason why it does not grow as long as a white women's hair is
because it is damage by perming it. Many African American women, who are
considered to have nappy hair, have grown their hair to lengths below the
shoulder without applying any chemical to it. DyerRonda Wilson (the
co-founder of Centurion Ministry) is a black women with shoulder length hair and
her hair is as nappy as it get. Her hair growth is not isolated either,
many others are experiencing this natural process as a result of being a natural
woman. Consider a Rasta. These are mostly black males with shoulder length
hair. If a black man's hair can grow to such lengths, then how much
more so the women. The secret? Simply Oiling and platting your hair.
Speaking of platting, another disturbing practice, is trying to meet societies
acceptable social image by braiding. One writer has this to say:
"Fashion
loads the heads of women with artificial braids and pads, which do not add to
their beauty, but give an unnatural shape to the head. The hair is strained and
forced into unnatural positions, and it is not possible for the heads of these
fashionable ladies to be comfortable. The artificial hair and pads covering the
base of the brain, heat and excite the spinal nerves centering in the brain. The
head should ever be kept cool. The heat caused by these artificial induces the
blood to the brain. The action of the blood upon the lower or animal organs of
the brain, causes unnatural activity, tends to recklessness in morals, and the
mind and heart is in danger of being corrupted. In
consequence of the brain being congested its nerves lose their healthy action,
and take on morbid conditions, making it almost impossible to arouse the moral
sensibilities. Such lose their power to discern sacred things. The unnatural
heat caused by these artificial deformities about the head, induces the blood to
the brain, producing congestion, and causing the natural hair to fall off,
producing baldness. Thus the natural is sacrificed to the artificial.
{HR, October 1, 1871 par. 10}
Women of all races are affected by the desire to establish a good self -image.
Granted, that is not a problem. The problems is that, that image is perverted.
We are adopting the world's standards. Therefore, many justify the use of
make-up by saying, "I'm just getting a little color." We are
acting and looking more like the world. Consider the following statement -
"Many are ignorantly injuring
their health and endangering their life by using cosmetics. They are robbing the
cheeks of the glow of health, and then to supply the deficiency use cosmetics.
When they become heated in the dance the poison is absorbed by the pores of the
skin, and is thrown in to the blood. Many lives have been sacrificed by this
means alone.
NOT
ONLY FADED FACES, BUT COUNTENANCES SO YOUNG, PLUMP AND PRETTY IN OUTLINE THAT
THEY MUST IN THEIR NATURAL CONDITION BE ATTRACTIVE, ARE LACQUERED OVER WITH AN
UNNATURAL POLISH OF FINE PORCELAIN, WHICH PRODUCES AN EFFECT SUCH AS ONE MIGHT
IMAGINE IF A CHINA DOLL WERE AFFLICTED WITH THE CONSUMPTION.
{HR, October 1, 1871 par. 23}."
"They
were irritations of the skin, caused by the use of cosmetics. The entire skin of
the face had lost its healthy, velvety smoothness, and showed an unnatural,
disagreeable roughness. In the appearance of her face, thus marred by poisonous
substances, and in the bright glow upon either cheek, giving such an unnatural
appearance, we could trace causes for her ill health. Here was one of fashion's
slaves who had sacrificed health and natural beauty in using poisonous
preparations which had been taken up by the pores of the skin and diffused
through the system. {HR, January 1,
1874 par. 2}"
Fashion and beauty has a new recruit - Males. This desire to be considered
attractive affects men as well. Christian men are currently platting and
coloring their hair. Such a practice was always considered feminine.
The
fascination with this world, and the desire to look like the children of this
world are removing the distinction between the sexes. A man no longer
compliments a woman, he imitates her. Twenty years ago, no one would ever
dream that men would wear earrings, no less in both ears. And what is even
more disturbing, is that, the world endorses such behavior. The wearers
are considered cool, cute and they are liked. What is your attitude, dear
reader? Well, if you hug and kiss those in error and those that are in the
right, that makes you the worse kind. You must look stern on somebody. Friends,
there is nothing worst than a pretty boy. Consider what the bible has to
say:
1 Corinthians 11:14
14 Doth not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long hair, it is a
shame unto him?
Men of all different races are removing the symbol of manhood and strength,
their beards, and instead growing that which should remain short, their hair.
This is done for a softening, cute, pretty effect. There is no wonder why
homosexuality is on the rise.