Spalding and Magan's Unpublished Manuscript Testimonies - Ellen G. White

and upon the community in the midst of which the
school is located, than would the display of any
number of courses of study in ancient and modern
languages and other higher branches of learning.
Let the school prove itself. Then the patrons
will not be disappointed, and the students will not
claim that they were promised instruction in certain
studies which, after entering the school, they were
not permitted to take up. Let it be understood at the
beginning that the Bible likes at the foundation of
all education.
An earnest study of God's Word, resulting in
transformation of character and in a fitness for
service, will make the Fernando school a power for
good. My brethren who are to be connected with
this school, your strength lies not in the number of
languages you may teach, or in telling how large a
"college" you have. Keep silent on these points.
Silence in regard to the great things you plan to do,
will help you more than all the positive assertions
and the promises that you might publish in your
announcements. You need to publish nothing of the
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