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

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flood of temptations. They are in possession of<br />

God’s heavenly endowment in their intellectual<br />

faculties, <strong>and</strong> they should not allow their thoughts<br />

<strong>to</strong> be cheap <strong>and</strong> low. A character formed in<br />

accordance with the precepts of God’s word will<br />

reveal steadfast principles, pure, noble aspirations.<br />

The Holy Spirit cooperates with the powers of the<br />

human mind, <strong>and</strong> high <strong>and</strong> holy impulses are the<br />

sure result. ...<br />

My soul is deeply stirred at the things that have<br />

been represented before me. I feel an indignation of<br />

spirit that in our institutions so little honor has been<br />

given <strong>to</strong> the living God, <strong>and</strong> so much honor <strong>to</strong> that<br />

which is supposed <strong>to</strong> be superior talent, but with<br />

which the Holy Spirit has no connection. The Spirit<br />

of God is not acknowledged <strong>and</strong> respected; men<br />

have passed judgment upon it; its operations have<br />

been condemned as fanaticism, enthusiasm, undue<br />

excitement.<br />

God sees that which the blind eyes of the<br />

educa<strong>to</strong>rs do not discern--that immorality of every<br />

kind <strong>and</strong> degree is striving for the mastery,<br />

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