Spalding and Magan's Unpublished Manuscript Testimonies - Ellen G. White

children in the day schools requires very much of
the grace of Christ and the subduing of self. Those
who naturally are fretful, easily provoked, and who
have cherished the habit of criticism, of thinking
evil, should find some other kind of work that will
not reproduce any of their unlovely traits of
character in the children and youth; for they have
cost too much. Heaven sees in the child the
undeveloped man or woman, with capabilities and
powers that, if correctly guided and with heavenly
wisdom developed, will become the human
agencies through whom the divine influences can
cooperate to be laborers together with God. Sharp
words, and continual censure bewilder the child,
but never reform him. Keep back that pettish word.
Keep under discipline to Jesus Christ your own
spirit; then will you learn how to pity and
sympathize with those brought under your
influence. Do not exhibit impatience and
harshness, for, if these children did not need
educating, they would not need the advantages of
the school. They are to be patiently, kindly, and in
love brought up the ladder of progress, climbing
step by step in obtaining knowledge.
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