Spalding and Magan's Unpublished Manuscript Testimonies - Ellen G. White

youth when Providence has so abundantly supplied
us with facilities with which to work.
Can we wonder that children and youth drift
into temptation, and become educated in wrong
lines by their association with other neglected
children. These children are not wisely educated to
use their active minds and limbs to do helpful
work. Our schools should teach the children all
kinds of simple labor. Can we wonder, neglected as
they have been, that their energies become devoted
to amusements that do them no good, that their
religious aspirations are chilled and their spiritual
life darkened? "It is so much trouble," says the
mother, "I would rather do these things myself, it is
such a trouble; you bother me."
Does not mother remember that she herself had
to learn in jots and tittles before she could be
helpful? It is a wrong to children to refuse to teach
them little by little. Keep these children with you.
Let them ask questions, and in patience answer
them. Give your little children something to do,
and let them have the happiness of supposing they
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