Spalding and Magan's Unpublished Manuscript Testimonies - Ellen G. White

students whose bills must be settled by some one,
or else they leave the college with a heavy debt
hanging over them. Educators are not doing half
their work when they know a young man to be
devoting years of close application to the study of
books, not seeking to earn means to pay his own
way, and yet do nothing in the matter. Every case
should be investigated; every youth kindly and
interestedly inquired after, and his financial
situation ascertained. One of the studies put before
him as most valuable should be the exercise of his
God-given reason in harmony with his physical
powers, head, body, hand, and feet. The right use
of one's self is the most valuable lesson that can be
learned. We are not to do brain work and stop
there, or make physical exertions and stop there;
but we are to make the very best use of the various
parts composing the human machinery, brain, bone
and muscle; body, head and heart. No man is fit for
the ministry who does not understand how to do
this.
The study of Latin and Greek is of far less
consequence to ourselves, to the world, and to God,
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