Spalding and Magan's Unpublished Manuscript Testimonies - Ellen G. White

way that pleases them, and there are no irritating
circumstances that call to the surface their
unsubdued, unchristlike natures, they are
condescending and pleasant, and will be very
attractive. If when things occur in the family or in
their association with others which ruffles their
peace and provokes their tempers, they lay every
circumstance before God, and continue their
request, supplicating his grace before they shall
engage in their daily work as teachers, and know
for themselves the power and grace and love of
Christ abiding in their own hearts before entering
upon their labors, angels of God brought with them
into the schoolroom. But if they go in a provoked,
irritated spirit to the schoolroom, the moral
atmosphere surrounding their souls is leaving its
impression upon the children who are under their
care, and in the place of being fitted to instruct the
children, they need one to teach them the lessons of
Jesus Christ. They need to learn in the day's work
that on such a day they were destitute of the
abiding presence of Christ, and that they should
have been corrected and punished in place of the
children for their perversity, for they merely caught
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