Spalding and Magan's Unpublished Manuscript Testimonies - Ellen G. White

Chapter 143
The Aim of Our School Work
May 15, 1908.
To the Teachers in Council:--
We are rapidly nearing the final crisis in this
world's history, and it is important that we
understand that the educational advantages offered
by our schools are not to be such as are offered by
the schools of the world. Neither are we to follow
the routine of worldly schools. The instruction
given the Seventh-day Adventist schools is to be
such as to lead to the practice of true humility. In
speech, in dressing, in diet, and in the influence
exerted, is to be seen the simplicity of true
godliness.
Our teachers need to understand the work that
is to be done in these last days. The education
given, in our schools, in our churches, in our
sanitariums, should present clearly the great work
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