Spalding and Magan's Unpublished Manuscript Testimonies - Ellen G. White

kind. By faithfulness in the school, you should
demonstrate that you are working on foundationprinciples,
principles that will prepare the students
for entrance through the pearly gates into the
heavenly city. The saving of souls is worth far
more than mere intellectual training. A pretentious
display of human learning, the manifestation of
pride of personal appearance, is worthless. The
Lord values obedience to His will; for only by
walking humbly and obediently before Him, can
man glorify God.
In giving us the privilege of studying His
Word, the Lord has set before us a rich banquet.
Many are the benefits derived from feasting on His
Word, which is represented by Him as being His
flesh and blood--His spirit and life. By partaking of
this Word, our spiritual strength is increased; we
grow in grace and in a knowledge of the truth;
habits of self-control are formed and strengthened;
the infirmities of childhood - fretfulness,
wilfulness, selfishness, hasty words, passionate
acts - disappear, and in their place are developed
the graces of Christian manhood and womanhood.
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