Spalding and Magan's Unpublished Manuscript Testimonies - Ellen G. White

integrity. This is the most valuable instruction that
can be given. Keep Jesus, the Pattern, ever before
your students by your example. This will act a
prominent part in restoring the moral image of God
in those under your charge. Teachers, you have no
time, no duty to teach students the forms and
ceremonies of this age of corruption, when
everything is perverted to outward appearance and
display. This must never find a place in our school.
This reform is not to be brought in as essential.
All religious exercises are to be treated with the
greatest solemnity and reverence. The teaching
given should be of a high class, of a more sacred
and religious character, than has been given in
schools generally. Human nature is worth working
for, and it is to be elevated and refined. There is a
work which God alone can do for those who are
deficient. They must be fitted with the inward
adorning which is in the sight of God of great
price. But the teachers can cooperate with God.
Through the grace of God in Jesus Christ, which
bringeth salvation and immortality to light,
teachers may cooperate with God, and His heritage
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