Spalding and Magan's Unpublished Manuscript Testimonies - Ellen G. White

so much time to prepare are, many of them,
detrimental to health. Solid foods requiring
mastication will be far better than mush or liquid
foods. I dwell upon this as essential. I send my
warning to the College at Battle Creek, to go from
there to all our institutions of learning. Study up on
these subjects, and let the students obtain a proper
education in the preparation of wholesome,
appetizing, solid foods that nourish the system.
They do not and have not had the right kind of
training and education as to the most healthful food
to make healthful sinews and muscle and give
nourishment to the brain and nerve powers.
The intellect is to be kept thoroughly awake
with new, earnest, whole-hearted work. How is it
to be done? The power of the Holy Spirit must
purify the thoughts and cleanse the soul of its
moral defilement. Defiling habits not only abase
the soul, but debase the intellect. Memory suffers,
laid on the altar of base, hurtful practices, "He that
soweth to the flesh shall of the flesh reap
corruption; he that soweth to the spirit shall of the
spirit reap life everlasting." When teachers and
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