Spalding and Magan's Unpublished Manuscript Testimonies - Ellen G. White

Teachers are not to allow themselves to be
quick-tempered. They should not manifest temper.
They should not punish harshly the children that
are in need of reform. Let the teachers first know
and understand that self must be kept in subjection.
Think of the boundless love Christ has bestowed
on human beings. Never forget that over you there
is a divine Teacher, whose subject you are, and
under whose control you are ever to be. Humble
the heart before God. It will be softened and
subdued by the thought of the riches God has
bestowed on his children. You will realize
something of the meaning of the words, "You, that
were sometimes alienated and enemies in your
mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled
in the body of his flesh through death, to present
you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his
sight."
Sometimes it is found that the school has been
established in a church where the disorderly
element among the children make the work very
hard. The children who have not received proper
training in the home will cause much trouble in the
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