Spalding and Magan's Unpublished Manuscript Testimonies - Ellen G. White

I was speaking to teachers in messages of
reproof. All the teachers need exercise, a change of
employment. God has pointed out what this should
be -- useful, practical work; but you have turned
away from God's plan to follow human inventions,
and that to the detriment of the spiritual. Not a jot
or a tittle of the after influence of an education in
that line will fit you to meet the severe conflicts in
the last days. What kind of education are our
teachers and students receiving? Has God devised
and planned this kind of exercise for you, or is it
brought in by human inventions and human
imaginations? How is the mind prepared for
contemplation and meditation, and serious
thoughts, and the earnest, contrite prayer, coming
from hearts subdued by the Holy Spirit of God;
"As it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be when
the Son of Man is revealed." "And God saw that
the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and
that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart
was only evil continually."
The Lord opened before me the necessity of
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