“The Costliness of Your Apparel”
In the courts of the prince of darkness a high seat of honor is accorded the designer of fashions, who throughout many generations of time has induced countless millions to trade function for fad, comfort for ostentation, modesty for vanity. For such persons it is not the appearance of the attire that matters, but rather the cost. The phrase “costly apparel” occurs more than a dozen times in the Book of Mormon. Almost always it is descriptive of a people who have been prospered by the Lord, have become caught up with themselves and their acquisitions, and thereafter have begun to place greater stress upon the glitter of their outward appearance than the cleanliness of their inner vessel.
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