Spalding and Magan's Unpublished Manuscript Testimonies - Ellen G. White

improvement of the mental powers. I have been
shown that study in agricultural lines should be the
A B and C of the educational work of our schools.
This institution must not depend upon imported
produce,--for the fruits so essential to
healthfulness, and for their grains and vegetables.
This is the very first work that must be entered
upon. Then as we shall advance and add to our
facilities, advance studies and object lessons should
come in. We are not to subtract from that which
has already been taken hold of as a branch of
education.
From the light given me there is to be opened
to our youth means whereby they, while attending
school, may learn how to use tools. Buildings
should be erected on the school grounds by the
students themselves. Under the guidance of
experienced workmen, carpenters who are apt to
teach, patient, kind, the youth are to learn how to
build economically. Then it is essential that our
printing should be done where our principal school
is established, and we should have a printing press
and fonts of type where another class of students
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