Spalding and Magan's Unpublished Manuscript Testimonies - Ellen G. White

cheap stuff, wood, hay, stubble, some choose to put
into their character building. The Lord Jesus gave
his life to save these precious souls, and he has
given them ability to learn, and power to obey his
requirements. Students are not given the privilege
of making wise improvement of their time. The
truth is able to make them wise unto salvation.
While special pains may be taken to make the
school what it should be, two or three students,
who act like larrikins, may make it very hard for
those who are trying to maintain order. The
students who want to do right, who want to think
soberly, are greatly hindered by the association of
those who are doing cheap miserable work. "In the
multitude of word there wanteth not sin." A few
may be able to separate from such company, and
retire to some place where they can ask the Lord
Jesus to guard them from all defilement by keeping
their minds stayed upon him. But the trial to which
they are subjected by their associates is not at all
necessary.
Nothing is to be tolerated in the school that will
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