Spalding and Magan's Unpublished Manuscript Testimonies - Ellen G. White

incapable of retaining the lessons they endeavor to
learn. If one-third of the time now occupied in the
study of books, using the mental machinery, were
occupied in learning lessons in regard to the right
use of one's own physical powers, it would be
much more after the Lord's order, and would
elevate the labor question, placing it where idleness
would be regarded as a departure from the word
and plans of God. The right use of one's self
includes the whole circle of human obligations to
one's self, to the world, and to God. Then use the
physical power proportionately with the mental
powers.
While studying authors and lesson books part
of the time, students would study with the same
application the human machinery and at the same
time demonstrate the fact by using physical organs
in manual labor. Thus they answer the purpose of
their Creator. They become self-made men and
women.
Had teachers been learning the lessons the Lord
would have them learn, there would be a class of
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