Appeal to Parents
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kind of excitement. And the cities of the earth today are becoming as
were the cities before the Flood.
We should carry a continual burden as we see the fulfillment of
the words of Christ, “As the days of Noe were, so shall also the
coming of the Son of man be.”
Matthew 24:37
. In the days before
the Flood, every kind of amusement was invented to lead men and
women to forgetfulness and sin. Today, in 1908, Satan is working
with intensity, that the same conditions of evil shall prevail. And the
earth is becoming corrupt. Religious liberty will be little respected
by professing Christians, for many of them have no understanding of
spiritual things.
We cannot fail to see that the end of the world is soon to come.
Satan is working upon the minds of men and women, and many seem
filled with a desire for amusement and excitement. As it was in the
days of Noah, every kind of evil is on the increase. Divorce and
marriage is the order of the time. At such a time as this, the people
who are seeking to keep the commandments of God should look for
retired places away from the cities....
Not A Deprivation
Who will be warned? We say again, Out of the cities. Do not
consider it a great deprivation, that you must go into the hills and
mountains, but seek for that retirement where you can be alone with
God, to learn His will and way....
I urge our people to make it their lifework to seek for spirituality.
Christ is at the door. This is why I say to our people, Do not consider
it a privation when you are called to leave the cities and move out
into the country places. Here there await rich blessings for those who
will grasp them. By beholding the scenes of nature, the works of
the Creator, by studying God’s handiwork, imperceptibly you will be
changed into the same image.—
Manuscript 85, 1908
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To Secure Life’s Best Results
An expensive dwelling, elaborate furnishings, display, luxury,
and ease, do not furnish the conditions essential to a happy, useful
life. Jesus came to this earth to accomplish the greatest work ever
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accomplished among men. He came as God’s ambassador, to show us