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visitation. When one city is destroyed, let not our people regard this
matter as a light affair, and think that they may, if favorable opportunity
offers, build themselves homes in that same destroyed city....
Let all who would understand the meaning of these things read the
eleventh chapter of Revelation. Read every verse, and learn the things
that are yet to take place in the cities. Read also the scenes portrayed in
the eighteenth chapter of the same book.—MR 1518 (May 10, 1906).
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Fathers and mothers who possess a piece of land and a comfortable
home are kings and queens.—
The Adventist Home, 141
(1894).
Cities to Be Worked From Outposts
As God’s commandment-keeping people we must leave the cities.
As did Enoch, we must work in the cities but not dwell in them.—
Evangelism, 77, 78
(1899).
The cities are to be worked from outposts. Said the messenger of
God, “Shall not the cities be warned? Yes, not by God’s people living
in them but by their visiting them, to warn them of what is coming
upon the earth.”—
Selected Messages 2:358
(1902).
For years I have been given special light that we are not to center
our work in the cities. The turmoil and confusion that fill these cities,
the conditions brought about by the labor unions and the strikes, would
prove a great hindrance to our work.—
Testimonies for the Church
7:84
(1902).
When iniquity abounds in a nation there is always to be heard some
voice giving warning and instruction, as the voice of Lot was heard in
Sodom. Yet Lot could have preserved his family from many evils had
he not made his home in this wicked, polluted city. All that Lot and
his family did in Sodom could have been done by them even if they
had lived in a place some distance away from the city.—
Evangelism,
78
(1903).
For the present, some will be obliged to labor in Chicago, but these
should be preparing working centers in rural districts from which to
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work the city. The Lord would have His people looking about them
and securing humble, inexpensive places as centers for their work.
And from time to time larger places will come to their notice, which
they will be able to secure at a surprisingly low price.—
Evangelism,
402
(1906).