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are to be established outside the cities. Especially is it important that
our youth be shielded from the temptations of city life.
It is in harmony with this instruction, that meeting-houses have
been purchased and rededicated in Washington and in Nashville, while
the publishing houses and the sanitariums at these centers have been
established away from the congested heart of the cities, as outpost
centers. This is the plan that has been followed in the removal of other
publishing houses and sanitariums into the country, and that is now
being followed in Great Britain with regard to the London publishing
house and also the training school there. We are now given opportunity
to advance in the opening providences of God by Helping our brethren
in these and many other important centers to establish the work on a
firm basis, in order that it may be carried forward solidly.—
Special
Testimonies, Series B 08:7-8
(1907).
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We are to be wise as serpents and harmless as doves in our efforts
to secure country properties at a low figure, and from these outpost
centers we are to work the cities.—
Ibid, 14:7
(1902).
Preparing for the Sunday-Law Crisis
We are not to locate ourselves where we will be forced into close
relations with those who do not honor God.... A crisis is soon to come
in regard to the observance of Sunday....
The Sunday party is strengthening itself in its false claims, and
this will mean oppression to those who determine to keep the Sabbath
of the Lord. We are to place ourselves where we can carry out the
Sabbath commandment in its fullness. “Six days shalt thou labour,”
the Lord declares, “and do all thy work: but the seventh day is the
Sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work” (
Exodus
20:9, 10
). And we are to be careful not to place ourselves where it will
be hard for ourselves and our children to keep the Sabbath.
If in the providence of God we can secure places away from the
cities, the Lord would have us do this. There are troublous times before
us.—
Manuscript 99, 1908
.
When the power invested in kings is allied to goodness, it is because
the one in responsibility is under the divine dictation. When power is
allied with wickedness, it is allied to satanic agencies, and it will work
to destroy those who are the Lord’s property. The Protestant world