Mind, Character and Personality, Volume 1 - Ellen G. White

partiality, having favorites to whom they will show
preferences while others are treated with exactitude
and severity, it will create a state of confusion and
insubordination.—CEd 154, 1893. (Fundamentals
of Christian Education, 269, 270.)
Schoolroom Atmosphere Affects Students.—
The religious life of a large number who profess to
be Christians is such as to show that they are not
Christians.... Their own hereditary and cultivated
traits of character are indulged as precious
qualifications when they are death-dealing in the
influence over other minds. In plain, simple words
they walk in the sparks of their own kindling. They
have a religion subject to, and controlled by,
circumstances. If everything happens to move in a
way that pleases them and there are no irritating
circumstances that call to the surface their
unsubdued, unchristlike natures, they are
condescending and pleasant and will be very
attractive. When there are things that occur in the
family or in their association with others which
ruffle their peace and provoke their tempers, if they
lay every circumstance before God and continue
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