Spalding and Magan's Unpublished Manuscript Testimonies - Ellen G. White

Work up the Sale of Christ's Object Lessons.
Interest the people in the work that you are trying
to do. You will find that believers and unbelievers
will help you."
During the General Conference, the way
opened for the school to be moved from Battle
Creek with the full approval of our people.
Cautions were given to Brother Magan and
Brother Sutherland against carrying their teaching
so far above the spiritual line of education to which
the students had been accustomed. They were told
that the people were not prepared at once to
understand and act intelligently upon the advanced
light in regard to the Bible in education. I was
instructed that they must advance steadily and
solidly, and that they must guard against going to
extremes in any line and against expressing their
ideas in language that would confuse minds. Plain,
simple language, must be used. Instruction must be
given line upon line, precept upon precept, here a
little and there a little, leading the mind up slowly
and intelligently. Every idea that they expressed
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