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

express what has been done with reference to it?
The heavenly Messenger has been repulsed by the
determined will. Teachers have virtually said,
“Thus far shalt Thou go with my students, but no
farther. We need no enthusiasm in our school, no
excitement. We are much better satisfied to work
with the students ourselves.” Thus despite has been
done to God’s gracious Messenger.
Are not the teachers in our schools in danger of
blasphemy, of charging the Holy Spirit with being
a deceiving power and leading into fanaticism?
Where are the educators that choose the snow of
Lebanon which comes from the rock of the field, or
the cold, flowing waters that come from another
place, instead of the murky waters of the valley?
A succession of showers from the living waters
has come to you at Battle Creek. Each shower was
a consecrated inflowing of divine influence; but
you did not recognize it as such. Instead of
drinking copiously of the streams of salvation so
freely offered through the influence of the Holy
Spirit, you turned to satisfy your soul thirst with
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