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Spalding and Magan's Unpublished Manuscript Testimonies - Ellen G. White

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e immortalized by being communicated. Let<br />

fathers <strong>and</strong> mothers realize that this class of<br />

education should not be perpetuated. Let them<br />

decide that they have had enough of this: --<br />

"Report. . . .<strong>and</strong> we will report it." Let students <strong>and</strong><br />

teachers keep their own counsel. Already I meet<br />

here <strong>and</strong> there little incidents <strong>and</strong> transactions that<br />

have taken place at the school.<br />

Students, underst<strong>and</strong> that you have not been<br />

appointed by the Lord to be an informer. Your<br />

work is to study your Bible <strong>and</strong> the other branches<br />

of education, as for your life. Do not make it your<br />

business to be a talebearer. As matters are reported,<br />

each one makes the report a little more pronounced<br />

or varied, <strong>and</strong> thus painful discrepancies cause<br />

many to form wrong conclusions. Therefore guard<br />

well your words; put a bridle on your tongue. If<br />

you allow yourself to become a talebearer, you will<br />

not be welcome in any family, because of your<br />

propensity to report every transaction that may<br />

occur. I have decided that it is unsafe for me to<br />

visit, not because I am guilty of any known wrong,<br />

but because something will be said or inferred that<br />

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