Spalding and Magan's Unpublished Manuscript Testimonies - Ellen G. White

intelligence, and piety. The teachers see and feel
that they must labor not to dwarf and taint the
minds of their associates with a sickly, halfreligious
service. There is need of separating from
our educational institutions an erroneous, polluted
literature, so that ideas will not be received as
seeds of sin. Let none suppose that education
means a study of books that will lead to the
reception of ideas of authors, that will sow seed
and spring up to bear fruit that must be bound up in
bundles with the world. Separating them from the
source of all wisdom, all efficiency, and all power,
leaving them the sport of Satan's arch-deceiving
power. A sure seduction for youth in our schools,
undiluted with heathen philosophy, is a positive
necessity in literary lines. ...
Ellen G. White
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