Spalding and Magan's Unpublished Manuscript Testimonies - Ellen G. White

than the thorough study and use of the whole
human machinery. It is a sin to study books to the
neglect of how to become familiar with the various
branches of usefulness in practical life. With some,
close application to books is a dissipation. The
physical machinery being untaxed leads to a great
amount of activity in the brain. This becomes the
devil's workshop. Never can that life that is
ignorant of the house we live in be an all-round
life. The schools are not half awake. The neglect
of some parts of the living machinery, while other
parts are put to the tax, and wearied and
overworked, makes many youth too weak to resist
evil practices. They have little power of selfcontrol.
The blood is called too liberally to the
brain, and the nervous system is overworked.
Exercise should be taken, not in play and
amusement merely to please self, but exercise in
the science of doing good. There is a science in the
use of the hand. In the cultivation of the soil, in
building houses, in studying and planning various
methods of labor, the brain must be exercised; and
students can apply themselves to study to much
better purpose when a portion of their time is
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