Spalding and Magan's Unpublished Manuscript Testimonies - Ellen G. White

e the part of these to see that every line of work is
kept up to the highest standard. Lessons in
neatness, order, and thoroughness are to be given
to the students. They are to be taught to keep
everything in the school and about the grounds in
perfect order.
A teacher should learn to control himself before
he attempts to deal with the youth. If he is not a
constant learner in the school of Christ, if he has
not the discernment and discrimination that enable
him to employ wise methods in his work, if he can
not control those in his charge with firmness, yet
pleasantly and kindly, how can he be successful in
his teaching? The teacher who is not under the
control of God needs to heed the invitation, "Take
my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek
and lowly in heart, and ye shall find rest unto your
souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is
light."
Every one acting in the capacity of a teacher
should learn daily of Jesus, wearing his yoke of
restraint, sitting in his school as a student, obeying
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