Spalding and Magan's Unpublished Manuscript Testimonies - Ellen G. White

This is the record now being made of a large
number, -- "Lovers of pleasure more than lovers of
God." Thus Satan and his angels are laying their
snares for your souls, and he is working in a certain
way upon teachers and pupils to induce them to
engage in certain exercises and amusements which
become intensely absorbing, but which are of a
character to strengthen the lower powers, and
create appetites and passions that will take the lead
and counteract most decidedly the operations and
working of the Holy Spirit of God upon the human
heart.
What saith the Holy Spirit to you? What was its
power and influence upon your hearts during the
General Conference and the conference in other
states? Have you taken special heed to yourself?
Have the teachers in the school felt that they must
take heed? If God has appointed them as educators
of the youth, they are also "overseers of the flock."
They are not in the school work to invent plan for
exercises and games to educate pupils; not there to
bring down sacred things on a level with the
common.
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