Counsels to Parents, Teachers, and Students - Ellen G. White

presented to our students as valuable additions to
their store of knowledge? The works of the most
intellectual skeptic are the works of a mind
prostituted to the service of the enemy; and shall
those who claim to be reformers, who seek to lead
the children and youth in the right way, in the path
cast up for the ransomed of the Lord to walk in,
imagine that God would have them present to the
youth for their study that which will misrepresent
His character and place Him in a false light? Shall
the sentiments of unbelievers, the expressions of
dissolute men, be advocated as worthy of the
student’s attention, because they are the
productions of men whom the world admires as
great thinkers? Shall men professing to believe in
God gather from these unsanctified authors their
expressions and sentiments, and treasure them up
as precious jewels to be stored away among the
riches of the mind? God forbid!
The Lord bestowed upon these men whom the
world admires, priceless intellectual gifts; He
endowed them with master minds; but they did not
use their powers to the glory of God. They
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