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ations are always detrimental to piety and devotion, and principles that
are approved by God may be undermined by such associations. God
would have none of us like Lot, who chose a home in a place where
he and his family were brought into constant contact with evil. Lot
went into Sodom rich; he left with nothing, led by an angel’s hand,
while messengers of wrath waited to pour forth the fiery blasts that
were to consume the inhabitants of that highly favored city and blot
out its entrancing beauty making bleak and bare a place that God had
once made very beautiful.
Our sanitariums should not be situated near the residences of rich
men, where they would be looked upon as an innovation and an eye-
sore and unfavorably commented upon because they receive suffering
humanity of all classes. Pure and undefiled religion makes those who
are children of God one family, bound up with Christ in God. But the
spirit of the world is proud, partial, exclusive, favoring only a few.
In erecting our buildings, we must keep away from the homes of
the great men of the world and let them seek the help they need by
withdrawing from their associates into more retired places. We shall
not please God by building our sanitariums among people extravagant
in dress and living, who are attracted to those who can make a great
display.
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