Spalding and Magan's Unpublished Manuscript Testimonies - Ellen G. White

The school is the home that should be a place
where children are taught that the eye of God is
upon them, observing all that they do. If this
thought were deeply impressed upon the mind, the
work of governing children would be made much
easier. In the home school our boys and girls are
being prepared to attend a church when they reach
a proper age to associate more intimately with
other children. Constantly parents should keep this
in view, realizing that their children are God's
purchased little ones, to be trained for lives of
usefulness in the Master's service and for a home in
the future, eternal world. The father and the
mother, as teachers in the home school, should
consecrate hands, tongue, brain, and every power
of the being to God, in order that they may fulfill
their high and holy mission.
To shield their children from contaminating
influence, parents should instruct them in
principles of purity. Those who form the habit of
obedience and self-control in the home life will
have but little difficulty in school life, and, if
surrounded by Christian influences, will escape
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