Spalding and Magan's Unpublished Manuscript Testimonies - Ellen G. White

is kept ever before the students as the one to whom
they should look for counsel, like Daniel, they will
receive of him knowledge and wisdom. All will
then become channels of light. Lay the matter
before the students themselves. Inquire who of
them will practice self-denial and make sacrifice to
cancel the debt already incurred. With some
students only the willing mind is needed. God help
the managers of our schools never to allow the
outgoes to exceed the incomes, if the school has to
be closed. There has not been the talent that is
needed in the management of our schools
financially. These things God will require of the
managers. Every needless, expensive habit is to be
laid aside, every unnecessary indulgence cut away.
When the principles so manifestly indicated by the
Word of God to all schools are taken hold of as
earnestly as they should be, the debts will not
accumulate.
Whatever may be the amount of means coming
in, strictest economy is to be studied. Economy and
care must be exercised in expending funds, not to
please fancy, but to study the limited means. Care
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