Spalding and Magan's Unpublished Manuscript Testimonies - Ellen G. White

parade before the world, showing what you expect
to do, as if you were planning to do something
wonderful. No, indeed. Take hold of this school
with meekness. Tell your brethren and friends that
you are planning to conduct an industrial school, a
school in which practical instruction in agriculture
and various trades will be connected with
instruction in book-learning. Boast neither of the
branches of study you expect to teach nor of the
industrial work you hope to do; but tell every one
who inquires that you intend to do the best you can
to give your students a physical, mental, and
spiritual training that will fit them for usefulness in
this life, and prepare them for the future, immortal
life.
What influence do you think it would have, to
publish in your announcement of the school, that
you would endeavor to give to the students a
training that would prepare them for the future,
immortal life, because you desire to see them live
throughout the ceaseless ages of eternity? I believe
such a statement would have a far greater influence
upon the brethren and sisters of this conference,
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