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

simplicity of Christ’s methods. His teachings
contain the very essence of sanctified simplicity.”
Those who present matters to the students in an
uncertain light are not fitted for the work of
teaching. No man is qualified for this work unless
he is daily learning to speak the words of the
Teacher sent from God. Now is the time to sow the
gospel seed. The seed we sow must be that which
will produce the choicest fruit. We have no time to
lose. The work of our schools is to become more
and more in character like the work of Christ. Only
the power of the grace of God working on human
hearts and minds will make and keep the
atmosphere of our schools and churches clean.
There have been teachers in our schools who
could pass well in a worldly institution of learning,
but who were unfitted for the training of our youth
because they were ignorant of the truths of the
gospel of Christ. They were unable to bring the
simplicity of Christ into their labors. It should be
the work of every teacher to make prominent those
truths that have called us out to stand as a peculiar
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