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Spalding and Magan's Unpublished Manuscript Testimonies - Ellen G. White

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plastic minds <strong>and</strong> characters of children under such<br />

a discipline is to leave scars <strong>and</strong> bruises upon the<br />

mind that will never be effaced. This matter has<br />

been presented to me in such a variety of ways,<br />

tracing from cause to effect, <strong>and</strong> while the matter is<br />

again brought before me <strong>and</strong> urged upon me by the<br />

Spirit of the Lord, I dare not forbear to trace with<br />

my pen the evils.<br />

If a teacher can not be made to feel the<br />

responsibility <strong>and</strong> the carefulness he should ever<br />

reveal in dealing with human minds, his education<br />

has in some cases been very defective, in the home<br />

life the training has been harmful to the character,<br />

<strong>and</strong> it is a sad thing to reproduce this defective<br />

character <strong>and</strong> management in the children brought<br />

under his control. We are st<strong>and</strong>ing before God on<br />

test <strong>and</strong> trial to see if we can individually be trusted<br />

to be of the number of the family who shall<br />

compose the redeemed in heaven. "And I saw the<br />

dead, small <strong>and</strong> great, st<strong>and</strong> before God; <strong>and</strong> the<br />

books were opened: <strong>and</strong> another book was opened,<br />

which is the book of life; <strong>and</strong> the dead were judged<br />

out of those things which were written in the<br />

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