Chapter 8—Our Institutional Centers to Be Away
From Congested Areas
Suitable Locations for Institutions
The instruction is still being given, Move out of the cities. Establish
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 erelong when all who wish to avoid the sights and sounds
of evil will move into the country; for wickedness and corruption will
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increase to such a degree that the very atmosphere of the cities will
seem to be polluted.—
Letter 26, 1907
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To Avoid Temptation and Corruption
Some have wondered why our office of publication should be
moved from Oakland to Mountain View. God has been calling upon
His people to leave the cities. The youth who are connected with our
institutions should not be exposed to the temptations and the corruption
to be found in the large cities. Mountain View has seemed to be a
favorable location for the printing office.—
Manuscript 148, 1905
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Stormy Times Are Before Us
This disaster [the burning of the Review and Herald building] may
make a decided change in affairs. I hope that our brethren will heed the
lesson that God is trying to teach them, and that they will not rebuild
the publishing house in Battle Creek. God means that we shall not
locate in the cities; for there are very stormy times before us.—
Letter
2, 1903
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Where the Youth May Be Taught Most Effectively
God has sent warning after warning that our schools and publishing
houses and sanitariums are to be established out of the city, in places
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