Spalding and Magan's Unpublished Manuscript Testimonies - Ellen G. White

to the homes of many who are now in ignorance of
it.
Let the work of dividing be carefully and
prayerfully considered. Properties will be offered
for sale in the rural districts at a price below the
real cost, because the owners desire city
advantages, and it is these rural locations that we
desire to obtain for our schools, that the students
may be away from the temptations of city life. If in
these places there is land to be worked and
buildings to be erected, this work will be of great
benefit to the students. When driven from the
cities, or when sent to other countries, the trades
learned in our school may be made an influence in
favor of the truth.
As we divide our schools, we should seek to
make them more and more like the schools of the
prophets. More and more we are to make the Bible
the great lesson book. Wherever our schools are
established now, the students are to become most
thorough students of the Bible. If they will become
doers of the Word, if they will dig deep, laying
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