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MH 189.1
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The tilling of the soil, the employment that God appointed to man in Eden, opens a field in which there is opportunity for multitudes to gain a subsistence.
Agricultural labor and tilling the soil provide viable opportunities for multitudes to earn a living. The paragraph makes an empirical assertion about agricultural employment providing subsistence for many people.
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C15570 · Agricultural work and tilling the soil provide widespread opportunities for people to earn a subsistence living.
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MH 189.2
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“Trust in the Lord, and do good; So shalt thou dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed.” Psalm 37:3 .
Trust in God and doing good are associated with provision and dwelling securely. The paragraph consists of a scriptural quotation expressing trust and divine provision.
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MH 189.3
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Thousands and tens of thousands might be working upon the soil who are crowded into the cities, watching for a chance to earn a trifle. In many cases this trifle is not spent for bread, but is put into the till of the liquor seller, to obtain that which destroys soul and body.
Urban crowding and spending earnings on liquor lead to personal destruction. The paragraph discusses urban overcrowding, employment struggles, and the harmful social and personal impacts of alcohol consumption.
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C15590 · Earnings spent on liquor contribute to the destruction of soul and body.
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MH 189.4
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Many look upon labor as drudgery, and they try to obtain a livelihood by scheming rather than by honest toil. This desire to get a living without work opens the door to wretchedness and vice and crime almost without limit.
A disinclination toward honest labor and a preference for scheming open the door to vice and crime. It addresses human attitudes toward work and the ethical and social consequences of avoiding honest toil.
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C15600 · The desire to get a living without work opens the door to wretchedness, vice, and crime.
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MH 189.5
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In the great cities are multitudes who receive less care and consideration than are given to dumb animals. Think of the families herded together in miserable tenements, many of them dark basements, reeking with dampness and filth. In these wretched places children are born and grow up and die. They see nothing of the beauty of natural things that God has created to delight the senses and uplift the soul. Ragged and half-starved, they live amid vice and depravity, molded in character by the wretchedness and sin that surround them. Children hear the name of God only in profanity. Foul speech, imprecations, and revilings fill their ears. The fumes of liquor and tobacco, sickening stenches, moral degradation, pervert their senses. Thus multitudes are trained to become criminals, foes to society that has abandoned them to misery and degradation.
Urban tenement squalor and exposure to vice negatively mold the character and senses of children. It vividly describes the environmental conditions and social degradation experienced by poor families in city tenements.
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C15610 · Children growing up in dark, damp, filthy tenements amidst vice and foul speech have their characters and senses perverted.
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