Spalding and Magan's Unpublished Manuscript Testimonies - Ellen G. White

consideration of all the circumstances connected
with the case. Students sent from home a short
distance or a long distance, thousands and
thousands of miles, are away from and deprived of
the advantages of home, and if expelled are refused
the privileges of school. All their expenses have to
be met by some one who had had hope and
confidence in these subjects that their money
would not be invested in vain. The student enters
into, or falls into, temptation, and he is to be
disciplined for his wrong. He feels keenly that his
record is marred, and he disappoints those who
have trusted him to develop a character under the
influence of his training in his scholastic life which
would pay all that has been invested in his behalf.
But he is suspended for his foolish course of
action. What will he do? Courage is at the lowest
ebb, courage and even manliness are not cherished.
He is an expense, and precious time is lost. Who is
tender and kind, and feels the burden of these
souls? What wonder that Satan takes advantage of
the circumstances? They are thrust on Satan's
battleground, and the very worst feelings of the
human heart are called into exercise, are
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