- Foreword
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- Keep the Children From Hotbeds of Iniquity
- Before the Scourge Shall Overflow
- Souls of Children Versus Ease and Comfort
- Christian Qualities Better Gained in Retired Locations
- The Refuge of Country Places
- To Secure Life's Best Results
- Manifold Benefits of Active Out-of-Door Life
- Expect No Miracle to Undo Results of Wrong Course
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- Suitable Locations for Institutions
- To Avoid Temptation and Corruption
- Stormy Times Are Before Us
- Where the Youth May Be Taught Most Effectively
- Working the Cities From Outposts
- In Easy Access to the Cities
- Lessons From Enoch and Lot
- Churches, but Not Institutions in the Cities
- The Message Given by the Lord
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Country Living—A Blessing to the Poor
If the poor now crowded into the cities could find homes upon the land, they might not only earn a livelihood, but find health and happiness now unknown to them. Hard work, simple fare, close economy, often hardship and privation, would be their lot. But what a blessing would be theirs in leaving the city, with its enticements to evil, its turmoil and crime, misery and foulness, for the country's quiet and peace and purity.CL 19.1
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.CL 19.2
Cut off to a great degree from contact with and dependence upon men, and separated from the world's corrupting maxims and customs and excitements, they would come nearer to the heart of nature. God's presence would be more real to them. Many would learn the lesson of dependence upon Him. Through nature they would hear His voice speaking to their hearts of His peace and love, and mind and soul and body would respond to the healing, life-giving power.—The Ministry of Healing, 190-192(1905).CL 19.3