Spalding and Magan's Unpublished Manuscript Testimonies - Ellen G. White

scribes and Pharisees, constantly kept back from
the advancement they might have made in
supplying their great want and becoming efficient
in usefulness. Through the rabbis, customs had
come down from generation to generation and
these were made all-essential, even of more force
than the ten commandments. Thus the precepts of
men were taught and dwelt upon as of more value
than a "Thus saith the Lord."
I have been warned not to travel over the
ground that many of the Battle Creek teachers have
gone over in their experience. The amusement
question was brought in there under a deceptive
garb. Satan approached as an angel of light, and he
worked most actively. If he could obtain the
sanction of the teachers in the school at the great
heart of the work, every school established would
follow in its tread. The leaven of evil, introduced
and sanctioned by Battle Creek, would spread the
properties introduced to all with whom it had any
connection.
The Lord has thought it essential to give
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