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

no end to the path of vain amusements, and every
step taken in it is a step in a path which Christ has
not traveled.
This introduction of wrong plans was the very
thing that should have been jealously guarded
against. The Avondale school was established, not
to be like the schools of the world, but, as God
revealed, to be a pattern school. And since it was to
be a pattern school, those in charge of it should
have perfected everything after God’s plan,
discarding all that was not in harmony with His
will. Had their eyes been anointed with the
heavenly eyesalve, they would have realized that
they could not permit the exhibition that took place
that afternoon, without dishonoring God.
On Wednesday morning when I spoke to the
students and to the others who had assembled, the
words that the Lord gave me to speak, I did not
know anything of what was to take place
afterward; for no intimation of it had come to me.
How could those at the head of the school
harmonize with the words spoken the proceedings
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