Spalding and Magan's Unpublished Manuscript Testimonies - Ellen G. White

things had the spirit and wisdom of Christ, they
would have seen a way to remedy the existing
difficulties more after the likeness of Jesus Christ.
It never helps a student to be humiliated before the
whole school. It creates a wound that mortifies. It
heals nothing, cures nothing.
There are students who are suspended from
school. They are in this action thrust upon Satan's
battle-ground to cope with principalities and
powers without armor or defense, to become an
easy prey to Satan's devices. Let me speak a word
to you in the name of the Lord. When there is a
proper course taken, in cases where students seem
so easily led astray, there will be found no
necessity for suspension or expulsion. There is a
right way, and the Spirit of the Lord must move the
human agent or else there will be grave mistakes
made. It is the nicest work that was ever entered
upon by the human agent, the dealing with human
minds. Teachers are to consider that they are not
dealing with angels, but with human beings who
have like passions as they themselves have.
Characters are not formed in one mold. Every
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