Spalding and Magan's Unpublished Manuscript Testimonies - Ellen G. White

But what returns have our young people made
to the Lord? Has it been as it was with the people
of Israel on that most solemn occasion described in
Exodus? Moses had gone up into the Mount to
receive instruction from the Lord, and the whole
congregation should have been in humble attitude
before God; but instead of that, they ate and drank
and rose up to play. Has there been a similar
experience in Battle Creek? Have not many lost
their hold on God? Did the exercise in games of
football bring the participants into more close
relation to God?
In the night seasons messages have been given
to me to give to you in Battle Creek, and to all our
schools. While it is in the order of God that
physical powers shall be trained as well as the
mental, yet the physical exercises should in
character be in complete harmony with the lessons
given to the world and should be seen in the lives
of Christians, so that in education and self-training
the heavenly intelligences should not record in the
books that students and the teachers in our schools
are "Lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God."
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