Call to Country Living
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Expect No Miracle to Undo Results of Wrong Course
I look at these flowers, and every time I see them I think of Eden.
They are an expression of God’s love for us. Thus He gives us in this
world a little taste of Eden. He wants us to delight in the beautiful
things of His creation, and to see in them an expression of what He
will do for us.
He wants us to live where we can have elbow room. His people
are not to crowd into the cities. He wants them to take their families
out of the cities, that they may better prepare for eternal life. In a little
while they will have to leave the cities.
These cities are filled with wickedness of every kind—with strikes
and murders and suicides. Satan is in them, controlling men in their
work of destruction. Under his influence they kill for the sake of
killing, and this they will do more and more
If we place ourselves under objectionable influences, can we expect
God to work a miracle to undo the results of our wrong course?—No,
indeed. Get out of the cities as soon as possible, and purchase a little
piece of land, where you can have a garden, where your children can
watch the flowers growing, and learn from them lessons of simplicity
and purity.—
The General Conference Bulletin, March 30, 1903
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Rural Locations for Institutions
The instruction is still being given, “Move out of the cities. Estab-
lish your sanitariums, your schools, and offices away from the centers
of population.” Many now will plead to remain in the cities, but the
time will come ere-long when all who wish to avoid the sights and
sounds of evil will move into the country; for wickedness and cor-
ruption will increase to such a degree that the very atmosphere of the
cities will seem to be polluted.—
Letter 26, 1907
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God has sent warning after warning that our schools and publishing
houses and sanitariums are to be established out of the city, in places
where the youth may be taught most effectively what is truth. Let no
one attempt to use the Testimonies to vindicate the establishment of
large business interests in the cities. Do not make of no effect the light
that has been given upon this subject.