Chapter 45—A Call to Country Living
[
Appeared in country living. For application of principles here set
forth to institutional location, see
Testimonies for the Church 7:80-89
;
Medical Ministry, 308, 309
;
Evangelism, 76 to 78
.]
I could not sleep past two o’clock this morning. During the night
season I was in council. I was pleading with some families to avail
themselves of God’s appointed means, and get away from the cities
to save their children. Some were loitering, making no determined
efforts.
The angels of mercy hurried Lot and his wife and daughters by
taking hold of their hands. Had Lot hastened as the Lord desired him
to, his wife would not have become a pillar of salt. Lot had too much of
a lingering spirit. Let us not be like him. The same voice that warned
Lot to leave Sodom bids us, “Come out from among them, and be ye
separate, and touch not the unclean” (
2 Corinthians 6:17
). Those who
obey this warning will find a refuge. Let every man be wide awake for
himself, and try to save his family. Let him gird himself for the work.
God will reveal from point to point what to do next.
Hear the voice of God through the apostle Paul: “Work out your
own salvation with fear and trembling. For it is God which worketh
in you both to will and to do of His good pleasure” (
Philippians 2:12,
13
). Lot trod the plain with unwilling and tardy steps. He had so
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long associated with evil workers that he could not see his peril until
his wife stood on the plain a pillar of salt forever.—
The Review and
Herald, December 11, 1900
.
Let children no longer be exposed to the temptations of the cities
that are ripe for destruction. The Lord has sent us warning and counsel
to get out of the cities. Then let us make no more investments in the
cities. Fathers and mothers, how do you regard the souls of your chil-
dren? Are you preparing the members of your families for translation
into the heavenly courts? Are you preparing them to become members
of the royal family? children of the heavenly King? “What shall it
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