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Country Living
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.
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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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