Spalding and Magan's Unpublished Manuscript Testimonies - Ellen G. White

loading down the mind with studies of authors
usually studied in our schools. It is not toil in trades
nor in cultivation of the soil, that degrades any
man; it is not hard taxing labor that weakens the
brain power, and creates sickness and disease; it is
the little use made of the living machinery that
enfeebles and causes disease and premature death.
Disease of the organs that God has given to the
living human agent is the cause of disease and
feebleness of all powers, the intellect included.
Adam was created in innocence, yet God gave him
employment, to tend the garden. This did not
degrade him. Here was his book of study -- God in
nature. He was to study God and obey Him. Paul
had to work laboring with his hands, and felt no
dishonor in it. All who would resist temptations
that assail them from without and within must
make sure that they are on the Lord's side, that His
truth is in their hearts; that it keep a sentinel watch
in their souls, ready to sound an alarm and summon
them to action warring against evil. All knowledge
that deserves the name of science is found in the
higher education, in the Word of God and should
be acquired by all human agents. True education
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