Testimonies for the Church, Volume 8 - Ellen G. White

have not firmness of principle or a clear Christian
experience not to send them away from home to
distant places, to be absent for many months and
perhaps for years, and, it may be, to have sown in
their minds the seeds of unbelief and infidelity. It is
safer, and far better, to send such youth to the
schools and sanitariums nearest their homes. Let
the youth who are forming character be kept away
from places where they would have to mingle with
a great company of unbelievers, and where the
forces of the enemy are strongly entrenched.
Let a decided effort be made by the managers
of our large sanitariums to employ older persons as
helpers in these institutions. In the visions of the
night I was in a large assembly, where this matter
was up for consideration. To those who were
planning to send their undisciplined children to
Battle Creek, One of authority said:
"Dare you make this experiment? The salvation
of your children is worth more than the education
they will receive in this place, where they are
constantly exposed to the influence of unbelievers.
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