Spalding and Magan's Unpublished Manuscript Testimonies - Ellen G. White

here obtaining an education, that the eye of the
Lord is upon them. If you will cooperate with the
angels of God and be strictly temperate in your diet
(and I have no reason to think that you are not),
and be careful of the brain power, God will
cooperate with you. Do not read novels. Put them
right away. What we want is the Bible Truth. It is
to be our foundation and our lesson book. We do
not want any of the fallacies that come through the
popular books that are brought into other schools.
Now, it is of no use for the teacher to give you
lesson after lesson and try to instruct you, unless
you cooperate with that instruction. There will be
those who have taught in the schools out of the
books who will be right on hand to tell you that
you are losing, that you should have a knowledge
of this, that, and something else. Tell them we have
not time. We are getting ready to be translated into
the kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
We want to know what we must do to inherit
eternal life. That lies at the very foundation of all
education, and the more you are instructed in the
Word, and understand the Word, the sooner you
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