Spalding and Magan's Unpublished Manuscript Testimonies - Ellen G. White

adopted to physical taxation, wearying the muscles.
Nature will then give repose and sweet rest.
The hand was made to do all kinds of work,
and students who think that education consists only
in book study never make a right use of the fingers
and hands. Students should be thoroughly taught to
do this very work that thousands of hands are never
educated to do. The powers thus developed and
cultivated can be most usefully employed.
Students who apply themselves wholly to brain
labor in the school-room injure the whole living
machinery by confinement. The brain is wearied,
and Satan brings in a whole list of temptations,
enticing them to engage in forbidden indulgences
to have a change, to let off steam. Yielding to these
temptations, they do wrong things which injure
themselves and do mischief to others. This may be
done in sport. The brain is active and they desire to
play some pranks.
Teach the students that their life is a talent to be
highly appreciated, and to be dedicated to the Lord.
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