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matter. I have a testimony from the Lord for those who have placed
such matter in the hands of the workers. God holds you accountable for
presenting to young men and young women the fruit of the forbidden
tree of knowledge. Can it be possible that you have not a knowledge
of the warnings given to the Pacific Press on this subject? Can it be
possible that with a knowledge of these warnings you are going over
the same ground, only doing much worse? It has often been repeated
to you that angels of God are passing through every room in the office.
What impression has this made on your minds?
You have given matter containing Satan’s sentiments into the hands
of the workers, bringing his deceptive, polluting principles before their
minds. The Lord looks upon this action on your part as helping Satan
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to prepare his snare to catch souls. God will not hold guiltless those
who have done this thing. He has a controversy with the managers of
the publishing house. I have been almost afraid to open the Review,
fearing to see that God has cleansed the publishing house by fire.—
Testimonies for the Church 8:91
.
Unless there is a reformation, calamity will overtake the publishing
house, and world will know the reason.—
Testimonies for the Church
8:96
.
Commercialism Reproved at Mountain View—While at St. He-
lena, again and again it has been revealed to me that there was not
a correct state of things at Mountain View; that there were present
the very conditions that made it essential for the publishing work to
be removed from Oakland. [
The original West Coast Printing House
in Oakland was established in 1874. Because of growing work and
the problems created by the city environment, the publishing house
was moved to Mountain View in 1904. The destructive fire of July
20, 1906, effectively settled the problem of commercial printing.
] I
saw that in the working out of human ideas and plans there was a
disregarding of the light God had given in the past to correct existing
evils. There is danger that the experience of the past will be repeated.
The men who are serving in the management of the work can just as
surely swerve the work into lines of commercialism as in the past.
My Instructor said, “This in no case must be.” They have had
warnings in the past over and over again, for eighteen or twenty years,
but have not fully heeded these warnings. There are those who have
had no heart in the matter of moving out of Oakland, but have been