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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.

Separation from worldly corruptions and closeness to nature foster spiritual awareness and holistic healing. It highlights the spiritual and psychological benefits of solitude in natural settings, framing them in terms of divine connection and holistic response.

If they ever become industrious and self-supporting, very many must have assistance, encouragement, and instruction. There are multitudes of poor families for whom no better missionary work could be done than to assist them in settling on the land and in learning how to make it yield them a livelihood.

Achieving industry and self-support among poor families requires targeted assistance, encouragement, and agricultural instruction. It emphasizes the necessity of practical missionary and educational support to help impoverished families settle on the land successfully.

The need for such help and instruction is not confined to the cities. Even in the country, with all its possibilities for a better life, multitudes of the poor are in great need. Whole communities are devoid of education in industrial and sanitary lines. Families live in hovels, with scant furniture and clothing, without tools, without books, destitute both of comforts and conveniences and of means of culture. Imbruted souls, bodies weak and ill-formed, reveal the results of evil heredity and of wrong habits. These people must be educated from the very foundation. They have led shiftless, idle, corrupt lives, and they need to be trained to correct habits.

Deprivation, lack of education, and poor heredity or habits lead to degraded living conditions, requiring foundational education and training. This paragraph combines social observation about poverty and lack of sanitation with empirical claims regarding heredity and habits affecting physical form.