Spalding and Magan's Unpublished Manuscript Testimonies - Ellen G. White

hold out to men and women.
Capabilities have been entrusted to every soul.
These are talents to be improved by faithful
service, that Christ at his coming may receive his
own with usury.
We hear much of the higher education as the
world regards the subject. But those who are
ignorant of the higher education as it was taught
and exemplified in the life of Christ, are ignorant
of what constitutes the higher education. Higher
education means conformity to the terms of
salvation. It embraces the experience of daily
looking unto Jesus, and of working together with
Christ for the saving of the perishing.
Idleness is sin; for there is a world to be
labored for. Christ gave his life to the work of
uplifting the fallen and the sinful. Though he was
the prince of heaven, he lived and suffered and
died under the abuse and scorn of fallen men; and
this that he might prepare for the human family
mansions in the heavenly courts. Christ imparted
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