Spalding and Magan's Unpublished Manuscript Testimonies - Ellen G. White

Many look upon a study of books as the
principal purpose of their scholastic life. They
know very little of practical business management,
and are therefore one-sided. Their faculties have
not been developed proportionately. They have not
plowed deep, to understand the weak points in their
character-building, and they do not realize their
own deficiency. They start wrong. They feel too
unconcerned in regard to becoming involved in
debt. They do not look critically at the outcome of
this. What is faith? True faith takes in the whole
man. It enables the soul to rise out of an imperfect,
undeveloped state, and to understand what wisdom
is. (See Prov. 8)
If education had been carried on in accordance
with the mind and will of God, the dark shadow of
heavy debt would not today be hanging over our
institutions. If the students had developed brain,
bone, and muscle harmoniously, they could have
studied better. But many students have followed
their own idea as to what constitutes education, and
therefore they have not placed themselves where
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