Spalding and Magan's Unpublished Manuscript Testimonies - Ellen G. White

earth's history. One young man, after five years'
study, has come from the school unfitted to teach
or preach. He has to unlearn and unload a mass of
rubbish which will disqualify him for efficiency in
any line of the work to be done for this time.
It makes my heart ache when I consider how
many would be glad of the privileges of a short
period in the school, where they can be brought up
on some points of study. There are those who
would consider it an inestimable privilege to have
the Scriptures opened to them in its pure,
unadulterated simplicity, to be taught how they can
keep out of the argumentative, debating methods,
and come close to hearts, how in simple, direct,
straightforward lines they might learn how to teach
the truth so that it shall be clearly discerned. These
years of study are cultivating many habits and
methods in the students that will cripple their
usefulness. They need to go through another
process of education, and unlearn many things that
they have acquired. The proper methods have been
presented to me. Let students with their mental
studies call into exercise the physical and moral
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