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

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<strong>and</strong> spiritual life.<br />

A Failure <strong>to</strong> Recognize God’s Messenger<br />

I ask you who are living at the very heart of the<br />

work <strong>to</strong> review the experience of years <strong>and</strong> see if<br />

the “Well done” can truthfully be spoken <strong>to</strong> you. I<br />

ask the teachers in the school <strong>to</strong> consider carefully,<br />

prayerfully, Have you individually watched for<br />

your own soul as one who is co-operating with God<br />

for its purification from all sin <strong>and</strong> for its entire<br />

sanctification un<strong>to</strong> Him? Can you by precept <strong>and</strong><br />

example teach the youth sanctification ... through<br />

the truth un<strong>to</strong> holiness, obedience <strong>to</strong> God?<br />

Have you not been afraid of the Holy Spirit? At<br />

times it has come with all-pervading influence in<strong>to</strong><br />

the school at Battle Creek <strong>and</strong> in<strong>to</strong> the schools in<br />

other localities. Did you recognize it? Did you<br />

accord it the honor due <strong>to</strong> a heavenly Messenger?<br />

When the Spirit seemed <strong>to</strong> be striving with the<br />

youth, did you say, “Let us put aside all study; for<br />

it is evident that we have among us a heavenly<br />

Guest. Let us give praise <strong>and</strong> honor <strong>to</strong> God”? Did<br />

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