Last Day Events - Ellen G. White

located? ... Should schools be located in the cities
or within a few miles from them it would be most
difficult to counteract the influence of the former
education which students have received in regard
to these holidays and the practices connected with
them, such as horse racing, betting, and the
offering of prizes....
We shall find it necessary to establish our
schools out of, and away from, the cities, and yet
not so far away that they cannot be in touch with
them, to do them good, to let light shine amid the
moral darkness.—Fundamentals of Christian
Education, 310, 313 (1894).
Everything about the place had impressed me
favorably except the fact that we were far from the
great thoroughfares of travel, and therefore would
not have an opportunity of letting our light shine
amid the moral darkness that covers our large cities
like the pall of death. This seems the only objection
that presents itself to my mind. But then, it would
not be advisable to establish our school in any of
our large cities.—Manuscript Releases 8:137
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