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easier to bring home to their hearts the truth of the Word of God.—
The
Adventist Home, 137
(1905).
Better Physical Health in Rural Environment
It is not God’s will that His people shall settle in the cities, where
there is constant turmoil and confusion. Their children should be
spared this, for the whole system is demoralized by the hurry and rush
and noise.—
Selected Messages 2:357
(1902).
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To many of those living in the cities who have not a spot of green
grass to set their feet upon, who year after year have looked out upon
filthy courts and narrow alleys, brick walls and pavements and skies
clouded with dust and smoke—if these could be taken to some farming
district, surrounded with the green fields, the woods and hills and
brooks, the clear skies and the fresh, pure air of the country, it would
seem almost like heaven.—
The Ministry of Healing, 191, 192
(1905).
The physical surroundings in the cities are often a peril to health.
The constant liability to contact with disease, the prevalence of foul air,
impure water, impure food, the crowded, dark, unhealthful dwellings,
are some of the many evils to be met. It was not God’s purpose that
people should be crowded into cities, huddled together in terraces and
tenements.—
The Ministry of Healing, 365
(1905).
Raise Your Own Provisions
The Lord desires His people to move into the country, where they
can settle on the land, and raise their own fruit and vegetables, and
where their children can be brought in direct contact with the works
of God in nature. Take your families away from the cities, is my
message.—
Selected Messages 2:357, 358
(1902).
Again and again the Lord has instructed that our people are to take
their families away from the cities, into the country, where they can
raise their own provisions, for in the future the problem of buying and
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selling will be a very serious one. We should now begin to heed the
instruction given us over and over again: Get out of the cities into
rural districts, where the houses are not crowded closely together, and
where you will be free from the interference of enemies.—
Selected
Messages 2:141
(1904).