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Spalding and Magan's Unpublished Manuscript Testimonies - Ellen G. White

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cooperate with the teacher, to encourage wise<br />

discipline, <strong>and</strong> to pray much for the one who is<br />

teaching their children. You will not help the<br />

children by fretting, nor by censuring <strong>and</strong><br />

discouraging them; neither will you act a good part<br />

to help them to rebel <strong>and</strong> to be disobedient <strong>and</strong><br />

unkind <strong>and</strong> unlovable, because of the spirit you<br />

develop. If you are Christians indeed, you will<br />

have an abiding Christ <strong>and</strong> the spirit of him who<br />

gave life for sinners, <strong>and</strong> the wisdom of God will<br />

teach you in every emergency the course to pursue.<br />

Christ identifies his interests with every class <strong>and</strong><br />

phase of humanity who are wrestling with<br />

temptations. You are not to countenance<br />

wrongdoing in any case, <strong>and</strong> you are not to make<br />

statements of wrongdoing which shall expel even<br />

the perverse doer. Never chastise in a way that<br />

increases stubbornness (unless you wish to bring<br />

upon your soul the same treatment from Jesus), <strong>and</strong><br />

confirms the student in his evil course. Children are<br />

in need of having a steady, firm, living principle of<br />

righteousness exercised over them <strong>and</strong> enacted<br />

before them. Be sure to let the true light shine<br />

before your pupils. It is heaven's light that is<br />

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