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

more and more thoroughly will our institutions be
cleansed from every common, worldly practice.
The show and the pretense, and many of the
exhibitions that in the past have had a place in our
schools, will find no place there when teachers and
students seek to carry out God’s will on earth as it
is done in heaven. Christ, as the chief working
agency, will mold and fashion characters after the
divine order; and students and teachers, realizing
that they are preparing for the higher school in the
courts above, will put away many things that are
now thought to be necessary, and will magnify and
follow the methods of Christ.
The thought of the eternal life should be woven
into all to which the Christian sets his hand. If the
work performed is agricultural or mechanical in its
nature, it may still be after the pattern of the
heavenly. It is the privilege of the preceptors and
teachers of our schools to reveal in all their work
the leading of the Spirit of God. Through the grace
of Christ every provision has been made for the
perfecting of Christlike characters; and God is
honored when His people, in all their social and
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