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

that followed, which were of a character to make of
no effect the instruction that had just come to them
from God? If their perceptions had not been greatly
beclouded, they would have understood this
instruction as rebuking all such proceedings.
I felt deeply the importance of the words that
the Lord gave me at this time for teachers and
students. This instruction presented before the
students duties of the highest order; and to efface
by the amusements afterward entered into, the
good impressions made, was virtually saying, “We
want not Thy way, O God; we want our own way;
we want to follow our own wisdom.”
In the night season I was a witness to the
performance that was carried on on the school
grounds. The students who engaged in the
grotesque mimicry that was seen, acted out the
mind of the enemy, some in a very unbecoming
manner. A view of things was presented before me
in which the students were playing games of tennis
and cricket. Then I was given instruction regarding
the character of these amusements. They were
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