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Last Day Events
The wicked are being bound up in bundles, bound up in trusts,
in unions, in confederacies. Let us have nothing to do with these
organizations. God is our Ruler, our Governor, and He calls us to
come out from the world and be separate. “Come out from among
them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean
thing” [
2 Corinthians 6:17
]. If we refuse to do this, if we continue
to link up with the world and to look at every matter from a worldly
standpoint, we shall become like the world. When worldly policy and
worldly ideas govern our transactions we cannot stand on the high
and holy platform of eternal truth.—
The S.D.A. Bible Commentary
4:1142
(1903).
Labor Unions a Source of Trouble for Adventists
The trades unions will be one of the agencies that will bring upon
this earth a time of trouble such as has not been since the world
began....
[117]
A few men will combine to grasp all the means to be obtained in
certain lines of business. Trades unions will be formed, and those who
refuse to join these unions will be marked men....
Because of these unions and confederacies, it will soon be very
difficult for our institutions to carry on their work in the cities. My
warning is: Keep out of the cities. Build no sanitariums in the cities.—
Selected Messages 2:142
(1903).
The time is fast coming when the controlling power of the labor
unions will be very oppressive.—
Selected Messages 2:141
(1904).
Many in the Cities Long for Light and Truth
Strictly will the cities of the nations be dealt with, and yet they will
not be visited in the extreme of God’s indignation, because some souls
will yet break away from the delusions of the enemy and will repent
and be converted.—
Evangelism, 27
(1906).
The spiritual darkness that covers the whole world is intensified
in the crowded centers of population. It is in the cities of the nations
that the gospel worker finds the greatest impenitence and the greatest
need. And in these same cities are presented to soul-winners some of
the greatest opportunities. Mingled with the multitudes who have no
thought of God and heaven are many who long for light and for purity