Spalding and Magan's Unpublished Manuscript Testimonies - Ellen G. White

disagreeable, through their own lack of tact and
wisdom from God? There should not be a teacher
employed, unless you have evidence by test and
trial, that he loves and fears to offend God. If
teachers are taught of God, if their lessons are daily
learned in the school of Christ, they will work in
Christ's lines. They will win and draw with Christ,
for every child and youth is precious.
Every teacher needs Christ abiding in his heart
by faith; he needs to possess a true, self-denying,
self-sacrificing spirit for Christ's sake. One may
have sufficient education and knowledge in science
to instruct but has it been ascertained that he has
tact and wisdom to deal with human minds? If
instructors have not the love of Christ abiding in
the heart, they are not fit to be brought into
connection with children, and to bear the grave
responsibilities placed upon them, of educating
these children and youth. They lack the higher
education and training in themselves, and they
know not how to deal with human minds. There is
the spirit of their own insubordinate, natural hearts
that is striving for the control; and to subject the
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