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The Publishing Ministry
Testimonies to vindicate the establishment of large business interests
in the cities. Do not make of no effect the light that has been given
upon this subject.
Men will arise speaking perverse things, to counterwork the very
movements that the Lord is leading His servants to make. But it is
time that men and women reasoned from cause to effect. It is too
late, too late, to establish large business firms in the cities—too late to
call young men and women from the country to the city. Conditions
are arising in the cities that will make it very hard for those of our
faith to remain in them. It would therefore be a great mistake to
invest money in the establishment of business interests in the cities.—
Selected Messages 2:357
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Church-operated grade schools and church
buildings may of necessity be erected in city environments according
to the counsel given. (See
Child Guidance, 306
.)]
Plants Near but Outside Large Cities—The movements made
by many in Battle Creek to counterwork the effort to transfer the
publishing house to another place as the Lord directed, will reveal their
results. It will be seen what it means to work contrary to the purposes
of God. But I have been shown that the results of this opposition will
not be fully known until the books of heaven shall be opened and every
man shall be judged according to the deeds done in the body.
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Again and again we have seen the results of working directly
against the plan of God. We have seen how great a mistake it is for
men to use their influence to turn aside the counsel of God in order
to bring in human devising. Men have been held in Battle Creek
who ought long ago to have been out in the fields that are destitute
of workers. Shall I not judge for this thing? saith the Lord. Human
wisdom has urged the advantage of remaining in Battle Creek, when
the Lord had said, Go; make plants in various places near to but outside
the large cities.—
Manuscript 76, 1905
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Not in a City, but in a Rural District—As our brethren search
for a location for the Review and Herald publishing house, they are
earnestly to seek the Lord. They are to move with great caution, watch-
fulness, and prayer, and with a constant sense of their own weakness.
We must not depend upon human judgment. We must seek for the
wisdom that God gives....
In regard to establishing the institution in New York, I must say,
Be guarded. I am not in favor of its being near New York. I cannot