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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, No. 8, pp. 7, 8
(1907).
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.—
Special Testimonies, Series B, No.
14, p. 7
(1902).
The Message Given by the Lord
“Out of the cities; out of the cities!”—this is the message the Lord
has been giving me. The earthquakes will come; the floods will come;
and we are not to establish ourselves in the wicked cities, where the
enemy is served in every way, and where God is so often forgotten.
The Lord desires that we shall have clear spiritual eyesight. We must
be quick to discern the peril that would attend the establishment of
institutions in these wicked cities. We must make wise plans to warn
the cities, and at the same time live where we can shield our children
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and ourselves from the contaminating and demoralizing influences so
prevalent in these places.—
Life Sketches, 409, 410
(1906).