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THE SPIRIT OF PROPHECY AND THE CAUSE OF REFORM 

By James White 

Mrs. White needs the help of all who can help in the cause of truth and 

reform. The people generally are slow to move, and hardly move at all. A few 

move cautiously and well, while others go too fast. The work of reform is not 

brought about in a single day. The people must be helped where they are. They 

can be helped better by one standing on the line of truth nearest them, than 

on the side the greatest distance from them. It is best for them to be taught 

on all points of truth and duty by persons of judgment and caution, and as 

fast as God in his providence unfolds them to his people. He who is but partly 

reformed himself, and teaches the people, will do some good. He who sees the 

duty of reform, and is full strict enough in any case, and allows of no exceptions, 

and drives matters, is sure to drive the reform into the ground, hurt 

his own soul, and injure others. Such do not help Mrs. White, but greatly burden 

her in her arduous work, We invite, yea, entreat, such to get out of the way, 

and let Mrs. White come to the people. She works to this disadvantage, namely: 

she makes strong appeals to the people, which a few feel deeply, and take strong 

positions, and go to extremes. Then to save the cause from ruin in consequence 

of these extremes, she is obliged to come out with reproofs for extremists in a 

public manner. This is better than to have things go to pieces; but the influence 

of both the extremes and the reproofs are terrible on the cause, and brings upon 

Mrs. White a three-fold burden. Here is the difficulty: What she may say to 

urge the tardy, is taken by the prompt to urge them over the mark. And what she 

may say to caution the prompt, zealous, incautious ones, is taken by the tardy as 

an excuse to remain too far behind. 

We say to those who wish to help Mrs. White in her work, you will not 

find her far ahead of the people, with a few extremists. No, she is back with the 

people, tugging away at the wheel of reform, and has to lift all the harder because 

of your extreme advance . Come back, good, whole-hearted souls, and stand 

by her side, and lift where she lifts. What can you do there at such a distance 

from the people? Come back. You must meet the people where they are. 

By this, dear brother, we do not mean that any are to come back to the 

wrong habits of the people. No, indeed, Their habits should be right. In this 

respect we say to them, Go on, But those who have run ahead of the work should 

come back from their heated zeal, and want of Christian patience, and labor for 

their brethren in the cause of reform as they can bear it. In this WY they can 

help Mrs. White, who is tugging along with a double burden of the work. 

There may be those, whom others cannot reach, that she can, if rashness on the 

part of others does not place them out of her reach, If one cannot mend a vase, 

he need not break it into fragments, It is possible thatanother can mend it. 

We protest against the plan practically taught by some, "Cure or Kill," 

and give a dose accordingly. Some sores need help in their cure, others will 

work their own cure best. It takes time to reform a poor, sinful, intemperate, 

blind, stubborn piece of humanity. It is a large job. And those who come a 

good way short of the faith of Abraham, and the patience of Job, had better lay 

out a little more time and toil on their own case, before going to work for others. 

He who deals with mind, engages in the nicest piece of business ever undertaken 

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by mortal man. And the greater the reform, 

difficult and responsible it is. 

and the closer the work, the more 

Some persons can be converted in a day, others in a week, and still others 

in a month, while it takes from one to two years to convert and thoroughly reform 

some. Those who have a work laid upon them for others, will patiently set before 

the people plain principles, and clear facts, and then leave them to answer 

for the use they make of them. Those called to teach, are responsible for what 

they teach, and how they live their own teachings. And it should be a matter 

of great relief to them, that they are not responsible for the manner the people 

dispose of their teachings 

example. 

result. 

, providing they do their duty, both by precept, and 

Let him who teaches make haste to do his duty, then patiently wait the 

Don't drive. "My sheep hear my voice, and they follow me." 

God has called some to teach the truth, and has called all to live it, 

teachers, and all. Some leave off living out the sweet principles of the 

truth, and go to battling for 

live out the truth, and leave 

it. Now if 

the teaching 

they cannot do both, they had better 

of it to those who can both patiently 

live and preach the truth. In fact, those not especially called of God, and 

qualified for the work, will be safest for themselves and others in the position 

of learners. 

Satan stands ready to tempt unconsecrated persons, and prejudice them 

against the truth. And those who practice it, and especially those who teach it 

should be exceeding careful not to give Satan good grounds to tempt people 

concerning their course. The day of the Lord is the great event before us. The 

keeping of the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus is the great duty of 

God's people, And that they may do this acceptably, they must reform in life, 

and cleanse themselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting 

holiness in the fear of God. Those who drop all other points, and run their 

own testimony all on the health, and dress reform, will disgust the people, 

and before they are aware of it, they will introduce a spirit of discussion, and 

contention into their meetings. 

The health reform has not taken the place in any respect whatever, of the 

third angel's message. It is a work designed to follow in its wake. Yet it is a 

fact that from the course of some, people might labor under similar difficulties 

of that of the colored boy at Johnstown Convocation, who differed with I%S. White, 

and was filled with prejudice against her, because he could not see that the 

Health Institute was the third angel's message. Mrs. White explained the matter, 

patiently, and the poor boy appeared quite satisfied. 

Let the work go on, saith my soul, in all its branches. Not a piece at 

a time, lest it go all to pieces; but let it move on as a complete whole. Not 

fluttering and trembling in the wind, but like an old seventy-four gun ship, 

let all the friends of truth and reform get on board and work together. Yet 

let all the friends of Jesus, his coming, and the future glory of the kingdom, 

patiently, cheerfully, joyfully unite and stand together in the work of preparation.--Review 

and Herald, March 17, 1868, 

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Proper Use of the Testimonies 

on Health Reform 

By Ellen C. White 

[See note by R. R. Figuht on lnrt pap.-Emons.] claim, “I am fearfully and wonderfully made.” 

FULLY believe that the end of all things Psalm 139:14. We will not consider the organs 

is at hand, and every power that God has of the body our own property, as if we had cregiven 

us should be employed in the very ated them. All the faculties God has given to the 

wisest and highest service to God. The Lord has human body are to be appreciated. “Ye are not 

brought out a people from the world to fit them your own, ” “for ye are bought with a price: 

not only for a pure and holy heaven but to pre- therefore glorify God in your body, and in your 

pare them through the wisdom He shall give spirit, which are God’s.” 1 Cor. 6:19, 20. 

them to be colaborers with God in preparing a tVe are not to treat unwisely one faculty of 

people to stand in the day of God. 

mind, soul, or body. We cannot abuse any of the 

Great light has been given upon health reform, delicate organs of the human body without havbut 

it is essential for all to treat this subject with ing to pay the penalty because of transgression 

candor and to advocate it with wisdom. In our of nature’s laws. Bible religion brought into pracexperience 

we have seen many who have not tical life insures the highest culture of the inpresented 

health reform in a manner to make the tellect. 

best impression upon those whom they wish Temperance is exalted to a high level in the 

would receive their views. The Bible is full of Word of God. Obeying His Word, we can rise 

wise counsel, and even the eating and drinking higher and still higher. The danger of intemperreceive 

proper attention. The highest privilege ante is specified. The advantage to be gained by 

that man can enjoy is to be a partaker of the temperance is laid open before us all through 

,divine nature, and faith that binds us in strong the Scriptures. The voice of God is addressing 

relationship to God will SO fashion and mold us, “Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father 

mind and conduct that we become one with which is in heaven is perfect.” Matthew 5:48. 

Christ. No one should through intemperate ap- The example of Daniel is presented for us to 

petite so indulge his taste as to weaken any of study carefully and learn the lessons that God 

the fine works of the human machinery and thus has for us to learn in this example given us in 

impair the mind or the body. Mar: is the Lord’s sacred history. 

purchased possession. 1Ve wish to present temperance and health re- 

If we are partakers of the divine nature, we form from a Bible standpoint, and to be very 

will live in communion with our Creator and cautious not to go to extremes in abruptly advalue 

all of God’s work which led David to ex- vacating health (Continz~ed on page 21) 

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(Continued from page I) characters into the reforms. This, at Sabbath. ___, i< __ a - test. ____, I __ cion -.o‘. he***.-=- -il.V’rFI, p-2 “VU 

the very outset. raises the combative- and H ‘is people throughout their geneform. 

Let us be careful not to raft ness of -the ver, ones they might help eratiol 1s forever. Forever this is the 

nto health reform one false s a oot if they dealt carefully, bearing a burden n of the third angel’s message- 

.ccording to our own peculiar over- healthful influence which would carry the cc )mmandments of God and the 

trained ideas and weave into it our the people with them. They will go testim ony of Jesus Christ. 

&n strong traits of character making at the work, making a raid upon the Tea, . coffee. -~ ~, tobacco. 2nd I.... glmhhl ‘.&+“I.“, 

.hese as the voice of God, and passing people. Picking out some things in we must present as sinful indulgences. 

udgment on all who do not see as the testimonies, they drive them upon \Ve cannot place on the same ground, 

xe do. It takes time to educate away every one, and disgust rather than meat, eggs. butter, cheese and such 

irom wrong habits. win souls. They make divisions when articles placed ‘upon the table. These 

Questions are coming in from breth- they might and should make peace. are not to be borne in front, as the 

ren and sisters making inquiries in re- I have been shown the danger # burden of our work. The forrner-- 

,gard to health reform. Statements are families that are of an escitable tem- tea, coffee. tobacco. beer, wine. and 

made that some are taking the ligh:hc perament, the animal predominating. all spirituous liquors-are not to be 

in the testimonies upon health reform Their children should not be allowed taken moderately, but discarded. The 

and making it a test. They select state- to make eggs their diet, for this kind poisonous narcotics are not to be 

merits made in regard to some articles of food-eggs and animal Resh-feeds treated in the same way as the subject 

of diet that are presented as objec- and inflames the animal passions. This of eggs, butter, and cheese. In the betionable-statements 

written in warn- makes it very difficult for them to over- ginning animal food was not designed 

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Revised: 

Lecture Outline Feb. 5, 1992 

EGW AND THE SDA "HEALTH MESSAGE": 

God's Third Priority 

Roger W. Coon 

INTR0DUCl'ICN 

, 

1. God's three apparent priorities for vision-content in 1st 20 years 

(1845:65): 

-- Formation of doctrinal - ^_L._.._ fmnu?work --- 11840s) 

\-- ~--I 

a* -of "Sabbath Can;Eerenees"- -1848-50. 

(2) Dec. 13, 1850 EGW writes: We k now [now] that we have the 

truth" (Letter 30, 1850). 

8. Priority #2 -- organization of SDA denomination: (1850s): 

(1) Dec. 24, 1850 -- first vision on subject.received by EGW. 

(2) 1860: first three stens in organization taken: 

_ _ (a) 

May 13: 1st %g&ly-or&nized" church, Parkville, 

(b) Cct. 1: SDAname _ __ _ adopted. 

(c) Oct. 1: First institkion organized (publ&shing); 

incorporated Mav 3, 1861. 

----- --I -2 - 

(3) 1861: Mich. Conf. organized. 

(4) 1862: seven more conferences orumized- 

-e------- 

(5) 1863: May 21--GC organized. 

message (1860s): 

reform vision (but 3rd, overall). 

(2) Dec. 25, 1865: 4th health reform vision. 

c l Prt;;i;V& -de&P= j E: ~~~;~ 

I. EGW'S HEALTH MESSAGE .suMAARIZED 

MI. 

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1. There is a significant link between the physical condition and the spiritual 

experience: 

a. God intends our bodies to be spiritual temules I for the indwelling of -- 

His Holy Spirit. 

(1) God- owns these "buildings" by ri_ .&t both of original creation --_ 2nd -_- 

of subsequent redemption by purchase-back, at great personal 

cost to Heaven. 

(2) He, therefore, cares, deeply, how thev ---, are - ~- treated. 

b. As the "Owner," God has every right tc i decide _--___ how His personal property 

is treated (and He wants to get His "money' s worth"). 

(1) As tenant, man has no right to do as he pleases-with - 

Someone else's 

property. 

(2) We hive a sacred obligation to maintain these c iwellings in 

optimum condition. 

(3) Man is to honor and glorify God in his body. 

(4) He must not, therefore, defile it. 

(5) God will punish severely all who thus desecrate their body-temples. 

c. Man was originally created in the image of God, 

(1) The image, subsequently, was marred (and nearly obliterated) for 

the entire human race because of the sin of Adam and Eve. 

(2) The great goal of religion in theological terms if "redemption"-- 

the restoration of what once was, in man, back to the original 

state. 

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2. The body (in general) and the mind (in particular) is the only medium through 

which God can communicate with mankind. 

a. This is why Satan seeks to pollute, defile, and destroy it, 

b. m must watch, and work diligently, to prevent this dastardly sabotage. 

3. Man should be guided by two great principles in every act of his life, as 

regards the body: 

a. To promote and to maintain life and good health. 

b . To do the very best possible under all circumstances in which he finds 

himself. 

(1) This may, at times, ‘oblige man to choose between the lesser of 

two evil situations/conditions. 

4. The Body-Temple can be polluted, defiled, destroyed, variously, by: 

a. Intake of wrong food/drink or of other harmful substances. 

b. Insufficient physical exercise. 

c. Over-work, coupled with insufficient rest/relaxation. 

d. Feeding the mind impure ideas/materials. 

e . Improper posture. 

f. Abuse of bodily organs by over-exertion, straining, constriction, etc. 

g. Lack of sufficient pure water, fresh air, etc. 

5. The goal to be sought by each Christian is “true temperance”: 

a. A moderate use of that which is good and health-producing. 

b. Total abstinence of all that is harmful. 

. 

6. God’s people, collectively, have a twofold obligation: 

a. The establishment of health care centers for the healing of the ill. 

b. The teaching of preventive methods/practices so illness may be avoided. 

7. In the work of attempting physical cure/healing: 

a. The Eight Natural Remedies* are the preferred therapeutic agencies. 

b. Poisonous drugs/substances should be avoided whenever and wherever possib 

c. There is a legitimate place for some drugs: X-rays, anesthetics, immunizations, 

prophylactic treatment (e.g., quinine derivitives for the prevention 

of malaria, etc.). 

8. Man’s original diet in Eden (fruits, nuts, grains, vegetables) is the preferret 

diet for those seeking optimun physical health and spiritual growth. 

a. Meat, poultry, and fish articles of died, as well as certain dairy and 

poultry animal products, are becoming increasingly undesirable and 

unsafe because of: 

(1) Disease in the animals themselves. 

(2) Possible chemical/radiation contamination. 

(3) Potentially harmful effects physiologically and spiritually upon 

body, mind, and character, 

b. When flesh foods, or other foods, are restricted from the diet, adequate 

nutritional substitutes must be found and provided as substitutes. 

9. In seeking to effect reform, great patience, kindness, courtesy, tact, and dis 

cretion must be exercised by the health reformer toward those whom he seeks 

to influence for the better. 

a. Balance and good common sense are imperatives. 

b. If one is to err at all, it is better to come one step short of the goal 

than to go one step beyond it (and thus have to retrace one’s steps); 

and if one is to err, let it be on the,side of the people. 

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II. 

CHARACTERISTICS OF THE SDA HEALTf.I MESSACE 

1. Ori in of: ap By /;p;zi;;y;;h 

message was given-- 

b. By direct revelation of God 

2. Purpose of: This message was given for practical, pragmatic reasons. 

[Seven - such will be explored subsequently in this lecture,] 

3. Uniqueness of: 

a. Where it was not unique: 

(1) SDA’s w%%% not always the earliest (and therefore the first) 

to teach some aspects of healthful living (though in 

certain areas ECW was quite well in advance of her time) 

b. Where it was unique: 

(1) Lsg the physical condition 

a cause-effect relationship; 

and the spiritual 

making healthful 

experience in 

living a religious 

obligation and a part of “present truth” (J. H. Waggoner, s, 

Aug. 7, 1866) 

(2) John Harvey Kellogg’s assessment (in Preface to Christian Temperance 

and Bible Hygiene, by Ew and JW, 1890, pp. iii-iv): 

the 

reader’s attention is invited tq a few facts of interest in this connection :- 

r. At the time the writings referred to first appeared. the subject of 

health was almost wholly ignored. not only by the people to whom they 

were addressed, but by the world at large. 

a. The few advocating the necessity of a reform in physid habib. 

propagated in connection with the advocacy of genuine reformatory principles 

the most patent and in some instancea disgusting errors. 

3. Nowhere, and by noooe. was there presented a systematic and barmonious 

body of hygienic truths, free from patent errors, and consistent 

with the Bible and the prindplea of the Christian religion. 

And, again, several paragraphs later he added, and summed up : 

. 

It certainly must be regarded as a thing remarkable. 

and &acing unmistakable oideace of divine insight and direction, that in 

the midst of confused and conflicting teachings., claiming the authority of 

science and experience. but &ped by ultra notions and rendered impotent 

for good by the great adm&rre,of error,-it must be admitted to be something 

extraordinary, that a person making no claims to sdentii ic knowledge 

or erudition should have been able to organire. from the confused and 

error-tainted mass of ideas advanced by a few writers and thin1 kers on health 

subjects, a body of hygienic principles so harmonious, so consistent, and so 

genuine that the discussions. the researches, the diuaveries, and the expe 

riencc of a quaxer of a century have not resnlted in the overthrow of a [I 

single principle, but have only served to establish the doccnes taught. 

l 

4. Practicality of: 

a. The SDA health message was not merely a philosophical subject 

for intellectual discussion/debate, but, 

way-of-life, with tangible, demonstrable 

rather, 

benefits 

a practical 

for the 

adherent 

b. How John Harvey Kellogg, MD, stayed five years ahead of the 

medical profession in the USA in the 1890’s: testimony to 

Dr. David Paulson in New York City in 1895. (Document File 

#269; cited in Critique of Prophetess of Health, pp. 16-17) 

1865-18901 

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eadtn/ Scope or : 

a. It is more than merely vegetarianism (though it includes it). 

It is more, even, than merely diet/nutrition (though it includes 

those, too). It embraces a total concept of and program for 

wellness, and includes (amon-er things) physical exercise 

and mental hygiene. 

b. It is concerned with the prevention of disease, not merely its 

cure; it embraces‘the maintenance of good health as well as its 

recovery. 

6. Universality of: Because it is based upon broad, far-reaching principles, 

as well as the application of those principles in specific instances, 

the SDA health message finds a practical, useful, and helpful application 

in every country and every culture. 

7. Evangelistic Utility of: 

a. Fitness, wellness, wholeness, healing by natural means, are all “in” 

topics of contemporary interest by the majority in many parts of 

the world today. SDA’s do well to capitalize upon this interest, 

and to exploit it for soul-winning ends. 

b. The health message provides an excellent opportunity to introduce 

EGW for the first time to non-SDAs, as a very valuable “entering 

wedge,” by bringing her into focus in an area of universal interest, 

and showing her advanced concepts from a positive standpoint. 

8. Ironies in: 

a. The health message is, by its very nature, concerned with matters 

of scientific inquiry. Of all of the categories in which EGW wrote, 

there has been more corroboration from non-church, secular, indeed 

scientific sources than in any other category; yet this is precisely 

the area in which so many choose to criticize and even to 

ridicule. 

b, While there is an amazing, delightful, and wholesome balance (not to 

mention saneness) in the EGW health writirlgs, yet it is precisely 

at this point that a large number of those who swear allegiance to 

her ideas themselves become most unbalanced in holding and propagating 

extreme views and aberratizs. 

III. SEVEN REASW WHY GOD GAVE US m HEAL’I3-l MESSAGE 

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1. That SDAs might live longer: 

a. Findings from survey of obituaries in - RH 1857-G: 

(1) Age at death: 

(a) Slightly more than one-fourth died in the first seven 

years of life (26.5%) 

(b) Another fourth died between the ages of lo-29 (22.5%) 

(C) Thus, half (49.0%) of all SDAs in this period died before 

attaining the age of 30 years 

(2) Suddenness of death 

(3) Causes of death: overwhelming from communicable disease 

(a) Nearly half from pulmonary diseases (46 of 101) 

(b) Second most-frequent cause: typhoid (16 of 101) 

(c) Third most-frequent cause: diptheria (7 of 101) 

(4) “Domino” phenomenon : contagion would take other family members 

quickly; those who nursed soon themselves became patients; 

families were decimated in unbelievably short time with multiple 

deaths 

(5) Death no respecter of persons: families of leaders as well as

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Message--S 

laynxzn suffered incredible losses 

(6) Frequently funeral services conducted without minister present 

and in charge. Death was a common, frequent, unwelcome 

intruder in nearly every SDA family ’ 

2, That SDAs might enjoy the years that they do have 

3. That SDA~ might be able to render service to Cod longer, more efficiently 

a. “The Cod of he&en .has given us reasoning powers and intellect, 

and He .wants us to use them. He has given us this body which 

He wishes us to preserve in perfect health so that we can give 

Him perfect service” (UL 192:4, from MC 6a, June 27, 1886). 

4. That SDAs might be a good advertisement for remnant church, thus attract 

the public to it in a favorable manner 

5. That SDAs might help others not of our faith find the benefits/blessings 

of good health 

6. That SDAs mental perceptions might be sharpened to better understand truth 

7. That SDAs might be better enabled to withstand the temptations of Satan-- 

attaining spiritual growth and development 

THE SOURCE AND SCOPE OF THE FIRST FOUR HEALTH REFORM VISIONS 

. 

A. Vision of Autumn, 1848: [JW in RH, Nov. 8, 1870, p. 165; cited in Robinson, 

1. Content: Injurious 

Story Tj-f Our Health 

effects of-- 

Message, pp. 65-701 

a. Tobacco (“a slow, insidious, and most malignant poison”) 

b. Tea 

c. Coffee 

2. Corroboration: 

a. Tobacco: Alton Ochsner, MD, professor of thoracic surgery, Tulane 

University School of Medicine, New Orleans, 1954, produced cinema 

film “One in 20,000”; research findings 30 years later 

b. Coffee: 1981 research 

cause of pancreatic 

at Harvard 

cancer --and 

University 

caffeine 

Medical School on primary 

is not the predisposing 

cause! ; Norwegian study in 1984 

B. Vision of Feb. 12, 1854, Brookfield, NY: (Ms. 1, 1854) 

1. Content: 

(a) Health-related 

(1) Adultery 

issues: 

in the. church 

(2) Lack of bodily cleanliness among Sabbath-keepers 

(3) Control of appetite needed - 

(b) Other topics discussed: 

(1) Profanity 

(2) Parental neglect of children 

(3) Unwise youthful marriages 

C. Vision of June 6, 1863, Otsego, Michigan: (Ms. 1, 1863) 

1. Background: 

a. General Conference organized 16 days earlier at Battle Creek 

b. JW/EGW visiting evangelistic campaign by R.J. Laurence and M.E. Cornell 

c. Stayed in home of Aaron Hilliard; 45-minute 

worship; eyewitness Martha Amadon 

vision during sunset 

d. Counsel given for recovery of JWs health, also for oh&h at large 

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2. Content: emphasized earlier reforms; introduced new ones. 10 emphases: 

a. Care of health a religious duty. 

(1) Cod requires us to glorify 

(2) We earn nothing, however, 

Him in our bodies. 

toward salvation/eternal life. 

b. The causedfaisease is a violation of health laws. 

c. Intemperance on many fronts 

(1) “Stimulating drinks. 

attacked (not merely alcoholic variety): 

(2) Tobacco “in whatever form.” 

(3) Highly spiced foods. 

(4) Overwork: “intemperance in labor .‘I 

(5) “Indulgence of base passion”: manifestations not particularly 

otherwise identified; obviously reference to intemperate 

sexual relationships between husband/wife. 

d, Vegetarianism 

non-flesh 

advocated; 

diet revealed 

pork totally contraindicated 

to EGW as ideal). 

(first time 

e. Proper dietary habits 

(1) Danger of eating 

to control 

too much. 

appetite: 

(2) Danger of eating in-beteen meals. 

f. Control of the mind essential; 

in a diseased mind, rather 

many illnesses have their origination 

than from organic/viral causes. 

g. Natural remedies in healing better than drug medication: 

(1) Those identified in this vision: 

(a) Pure air. 

r] F2hE-- . 

--for both internal/external use. 

(ii) Pgsical ‘exercise. 

(e) Adequate rest. 

(f) Fasting for brief periods of time to rest stongch. 

(2) In 1885--22 years later --she added a final ‘hatural remedy”: 

(a) “A firm trust in Cod,” “trust in divine power. 

h. Personal cleanliness--raised in 1854 vision; reiterated here. 

(1) But broadened to include: 

. ?a> Body. 

@I) Clothing. 

(c) Living quarters. 

(2) Personal cleanliness placed on level of “purity of heart” 

for all professing Christians. 

i. Enviromntal concerns : 

(1) Remove decaying vegitation from immediate proximity of home. 

(2) Wherever possible, build houses on high gromd, avoid allowing 

water to settle nearby, 

j . Health education: 

(1) For first tti, a “duty“ of Christians to educate public. 

(2) This would be further re-emphasized in 4th health-reform 

vision of Dec. 25, 1865, at Roehester, NY. 

3, Significance of this vision: 

a. For first time made definite link between one’s physical condition 

and one’ s spiritual experience. 

b. Vegitarianism advocated for first tinr ; prok prohibited altogether. 

D. Vision of December 25, 1865, Rochester, NY (1T 485-95): 

1. Background: 

a. Special service in local SDA Church Christmas Day for healing for 

James White and his recovery of health. 

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2. Content: 

a. SDAs should now provide a health-care institution to do 2 things: 

(1) Cure those already ill. 

(2) Teach preventive medicine. 

V. THE CASE FOR VEGETARIANISM 

A. Mounting Evidence of Pollution in Processing Plants and in Animals Themselves: 

1, “Meat” indicted: 

a. “A ‘Mystery Meat’ Scandal”, Newsweek, Sept. 24, 1984, p. 31, 

Appendix A, 

b. “Southland Meat Industry, Inspections Under Probe,” Los Angeles 

Times, May 28, 1985, pp. 1, 12-14, Appendix B. 

2. Poultry indicted: ’ 

a. CBS News’ “60 Minutes” broadcast a segment on salmonella poisoning 

from eating of chicken/poultry products, entitled “Gne Out of 

Three : ” 

(1) 

(2) 

Initial broadcast: March 29, 1987. 

Rebroadcast: September 6, 1987, 

* 3. Fish indicted: 

a. Highly-respected Consumer Reports cover story, February, 1992 

edition: “Is Our Fish 

(1) Based on six-month 

Fit to Eat?“, 

investigation 

pp. 103-14. 

of fresh fish and shellfish 

which “raises serious quality 

(a) 29% of samples purchased 

about their quality:” 

in stores were already spoiled. 

from “total bacteria”, another 9% were “beginning to 

spoil, ” another 4% were graded “barely acceptable,” 

and only 58% were labeled “acceptable.” 

(b) With regard to infection from fecal coliform bacteria, 

15% were “potentially hazardous,” 7% raised “cause for 

alarm,” another 22% were judged to be “contaminated,” 

and only 56% were judged “acceptable.” 

(c) 43% of salmon contained PC&, a potential carcinogen and 

reproductive hazard. 

(d) 90% of swordfish contained heavy-mtai m3rcur-y conatamination, 

which may harm nervous system; 25% contained 

l PCBS 

(e) Catfish were found occasionally to contain residues of 

pesticides DDT, DDE, and DDD, which can affect repro- 

duction in mammals. 

(f) Some samples of clams were high in lead, which can impair 

behavioral development ti young children, 

(g) 50% of lake whitefish contained PCBs; some pesticide traces 

(h) Of flounder and soul 55% had no detectible residues.--but 

that means 45% did, though at minimum levels. 

(2) In addition to the 125ge cover story (plus cover), the next 

article in this issue was on tuna fish (“Canned Tuna”) and 

ran an additional five pages (pp. 116-20). 

b. Two of the three major American weekly newsmagazines thought the 

research significant enough to each devote a quarter-page to a 

report : 

[;)) U.S. News FT World Report, Jan. 27, 1992, p. 14. 

Time, Jan. 21, 1992, p. 25. 

m Both carried incorrect statistical findings, irnwittingly! 

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CONCLUSION--The Witness 

of Science. 

1, ECW continually appealed to her followers to “Judge from the weight of 

evidence” (5T 675, 676). 

2. Longevity studies prove SDAs live statistically longer lives than do 

nonSDAs and have fewer deaths from diseases--particularly cancers: 

a. Gary Fraser, “Epidemiological Studies of Adventists ,‘I Scope, 

July- Sept., 1991, pp. SO-55 (Antholo h .gy;*If:91!72-77: reports 

206 published manuscripts in t e scientlflc literature that 

deal with the health status of SDAs. 

b. “At a Glance: California Adventist Health Study,” Scope,, Apr.- 

June, 1991, 

c. Jan W. Kuzma’s 

(1) “Lifestyle and Life Expectancy of Seventh-day Adventists,” 

Adventist Review, June 29, 1989, pp. 15-19 (Anthology, II: 

t-39/96-100. 

> ry, Sept., 1989, ppe 

24-27 (Anthology, II:89/101-104 . 

3. Foreign governments have studied SDA lifestyle among citizens of their 

own nations : 

a. Norway, 1981: 

THEr3MKFwx 

Adventist 

RE 3view 

PB 35 Jl 5, 1981 

if the general population were Se 

as motivated to take CBft Of WC= 

t.hcmseIves as Adventists are. were not as well educated - on _ 

The study also provided 

Two non-Adventist interesting observation in fame age IKX Medical Association’sof&s 

researchers working for the regard to h~o points of criti- general population. (Educa- journal. H. J. Shut 

Norwegian Government have cism some scientists have tional status is the most comcutnplcted 

a study of Advcnt- raised a&t the California mon measure of sociccco- 

3s’ health status similar to health study. These critics nomic level.) ; 

studies done in California and have argued that- The same study also 

the Netherlands. The study, a 1. Adventists belong to a showed that. almost without 

I7-year follow-up of all rather high socioeconomic exception, Norwegian 

Seventh-day Adventists in group in the population. Pea- Seventhday {dventists have 

Nonuay, indicates that Nor- pie tn the higher stfdta of settled down. m w. was 

wegian SDAs enjoy about the society enjoy better health and having the highest mclacnce 

same health benefits as do run considerably less risk of ofthe majordiseasesreIated to 

~ SDAs in California. being stricken by certain dis- life style. 

The Norwegian researchers eases associated with life Doctors - . . Waaler . . aud . Hjort . 

I concluded in &e study that the style. conclude m theu study that 

national budget for health care 2. Adventists living in Cal- neither social groups nor _. gee- _ 

1 could be t&&d substantially ifoda art a gaographically p@c s+ction explains 

.~~ 

the 

I 

nealrn aavanragc 0Dservta f 

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Y 

b. Denmark, 1982: 

For the First time al? iilvestigr- taincd far less risk of developing 

tion has bun carried out study- c8narthMtbcavua.geptrson. 

ing people in Denmark who lbiiriskwas70to8operunt 

titbcr smoke nor drink rlce ks&fmthatoftkgcaeral 

bol. 

hishpopulation. 

The Cancer Registration when it came to lung of 

Ofke in Cophagen, which bladckrixncer,tberisksfor 

has kqt back of 750 Scventh- Adventists were r&ad even 

day Adventist maks over a fulthcr, tbzadng to tbc invcstiu-year 

period. has discovered gation.AstbesctwofomSof 

&at one in ten had developed -cccmtoberc1atcdm 

umx form of cBT)(3cI, while smoking. the Mvcntists’ rick 

among the gemal Danish pop was ody about cmc-tcoth that of 

t&&m CnK in four had devel- ttx average popdation. 

opedcanccrdtigfbesame 

TxonvuD KJttmm 

jluiod. 

The Cancer Registration’s Adventist Review 

chief medical director, Ok December 2, 1982 

Moller lensen. told the daily 

jmpa, JyUan&-Posten, that, 

without doubt, the Adventists 

studiui in the iilvc5tigation sus- 

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4. Recent scientific corroboration in the USA: 

a. See Appendix C, portion of text of RWC’s The G reat Visions 

of Ellen G. White, Vol. 1, Chapter 7. 

b. Jan van Eys, Ph.D., M.D., ‘Nedem Medicine and Old Dilemmas,” 

The Pharos (Journal of Alpha 01 Tlega Alpha Honor Medical Society), 

Fall, 1988, pp. 29-32. - 

. 

(1) Acknowledges her “as a paradigm for the social conscience 

in medicine” (p . 29). Appendix D. 

5. The world’s largest-circulation magazine, Reader’s Digest, Eb., 1983, 

pp.. 78-82 carried an article, “At Last, An Anti-Cancer Diet,” by 

Walter S. Ross, an RD “roving editor” who also doubles as editor of 

the Mrican Cancer Society’s publication Cancer News. 

a. The first three words of the article begm. “Se ~+&i?h Day Adventists 

” I 

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Reader’s Digest, February, 1983, pp. 78-82 

An Anti- 

l 

let 

Can some things we eat and drink increase the risk 

of cancer? Can we alter our diet to help prevent 

cancer? The answer to both questions i? “yes” 

BY 

WALTLY s. Ross 

EVENTH DAY ADVENTISTS who Americ3n women 3re higher in fat 

live in California have 3 much th3n Asian diets. 

lower r3tc of colon/rccul can- In 1981 British researchers Richccrs 

than other Americana ard Doll and Richard Pcto suggcstl 

In Japan the incidence of cd that it may be possible through 

stomach cancer is very high, while dietary changes to reduce U.S. canthat 

of bowel cancer is low. Hut cer deaths by about 3 third. They 

when Japanese cmigr3tc to Hswaii, belicvc future rcx3rch will show 

this is rcvcrxd--the r3te of tx>wcI that diet is 3n import3nt hctor in 

cancer increases, but the rate of avoiding cancers of the stomach, 

stomach c3nccr is reduced in the krrgc bowel, uterus, gall bladder, 

next gcncmtion. 

breast and p3ncrc3s. 

* Women living in the United Since the 196os scientists have 

St;ltcs h3ve a higher rate of breast been investigating food groups 3nd 

cancer than those in Asia. 3 spectrum of nutrients, vit;Lmins:, 

All this may be rclatcd to nutri- mincr3ls 3nd food 3dditivcs in the 

tion: most Seventh Day Adventists hope of pinpointing cancer-causing 

3rc vegct3ri3ns; the diets of Jap3- factors. Marc recently, studies h3vc 

nese in H3waii arc different from also focused on the protcctivc effect 

those in Japan; and the diets of that food substances m3y h3ve 

--‘---..-- ..- 3gainst the cancer process. The Na- 

WIZ3I-Jt;pI i Kockri Ihp Huvinfi 

Wiw, $3 31~) c&w uffrnrrr Ah% an Amrrl- tional (inccr Institute (NCI) and 

can cmccr SlJcmy pblluuun. the American Gnccr Society are 

31 

According to studies made in 

chffcrrnt 1’3”s of the world, the 

incidence of breast, colon and prust3tc 

cancer is signifidntly lower 

among l~oJ>lc who r3t lots of vrgetclblrs. 

This ‘startling tinding,” 

53~s Walter Troll, professor of environmental 

medicine 3t New 

York University, suggests that vrg 

rt3bles cont;lin suhstanccs “cap3ble 

of inhibiting cancer in man.” 

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(2) Considered my many peers as one of the world’s foremost 

authorities on hypertension'(high blood pressure)--if, 

indeed, not the world's No. 1 authority. 

(3) Dr. Kaplan addressed l,OOO+ health care professionals attending 

"Lifestyle Medicine" convention at ~omz~ Linda 

University’s School of Health, in the summer of 1983. 

MynonSDA health care professionals in the audience): 

“You as Adventists may have espoused a certain dietary 

lifestyle on the basis of faith, in the past; but 

now you can practice it on the basis of scientific 

evidence. Hopefully you will not [go back and re-] 

join the mainstream, but [rather] adhere to your 

health heritage." 

[Cited in Far Eastern Division Outlook, 

August, 1983, pr 

b. William Herbert Foege, M.D., M.P.H. 

(1) Director, Center for Disease Control, U.S. Public Health 

Service, Atlanta, GA. Then: 

(2) Assistant U.S. Surgeon-General and Special Assistant for 

Policy Development, U.S. Dept. of Health and Hmnan Services 

(at the time of his Uxna Linda appearance) ; and then 

(3) Executive Director.and Fellow for International and Domestic 

Health, The Carter Center, Emory University, Atlanta, 

since summer, 1986. (This consortium of nonproflt organizations 

seeks "to alleviate conflict, reduce suffering, mi 

promote better understanding among peoples of the world. ) 

~4) Speaking at LLU School of Health "Update“, April, 1984, 

Dr. Foege, in addressing SDAs in his audience ~TL particular, 

said: 

“You Seventh-day Adventists are now the role 

model for the rest of the world.” 

LIST OF APPENDIXES 

A. “A 'Mystery Meat' Scandal," Newsweek, Sept. 24, 1984, p. 31. 

B. “Southland Meat Industry, Inspections Under Probe,” Los Angeles Times, 

May 28, 1985, pp. .l, 12-14. 

. c. "Recent Scientific Gxroboration," from Roger W. Goon, The Great Visions of 

Ellen G. White, Vol. 1, Chapter 7. 

D. Jan ,van Eys, Ph.D., M.D., ‘Modern Medicine and.Old Dilemmas," The Pharos 

(Journal of the Alpha (%ega Alpha Honor Medical Society), Fall, 1988, 

pp. 29-32. 

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APPENDIX A 

selling tainted goods, the joke didn’t 

seem so funny. Testimony against Rurade 

of witncsxs told their tales. Govemment 

impcctors describul the rats, 

dolpb (Butch) 

~lorado-based 

Stanko, owuer of the 

Cattle King Packing 

roachczs and paint chips that littered the 

planf whik workus told of pcopk mi- 

Co., proved as lurid as anything Upton 

Sinclair found in the turn-of-thc-ccntury 

nating in the slaughter area and repackaging 

spoiled meat rcturncd by dimatisjungle 

of the Chicago stockyards and 

slaughtcrhouscs. Cattle King’s prevailtied 

customers. According to testimony, 

old meat was sometimes labeled with 

ing philosophy, testified forma employ- phony dats; sometimer, diseased carcc 

Larry Andrews, could bc summed up cases were gussicd up for inspcctiar by 

in a couvcrsation hc once had with Hen- king matched with the healthy had.5 

ry Star&o, the own& cousin who later from larger cows 

turned state’s cvidcnce. “[He] told us,” Deceiving the USDA imp&on who 

said Andrcws, “not to throw away any- monitored the plant arps not di&uR 

thing, to use every bit and piece, even the According to cx-Cattle King cxoxtive 

blood clots.” Bruoc Ryan, one of his plant’s inspcc- 

CS~UC King’s mother company, NC- tars *‘was gcd for three or four hours 

bra&a Reef Procusors, tirst ran into of reading tbc paper or skcping [cvcry 

day].” Ryan also said that 

managers took, advantage 

of the daily 4hlinutc abscncc 

of the plant vcterinarim-m 

absence which 

kft “au tbe coolers open 

for us to do whatever we 

wantcd.” Some of the Cattle 

King dirty work of 

maping rotten meat or 

dragging in dead carczsscs 

last several yeas, the firm (which sup 

plied more ground meat in 1983 to 

school-lunch programs than any other rcquircs. ‘We’re not [at the plant] to 

packer) has been cited for dclivcring police it,” says Marshall Marcus of the 

small shipments cd spoiled meat and USDA. “We’re set up to provide our 

tampering with USDA inspection regulatorv functions. We’re not *&cm to 

stamps Last fall the lid was finally look for thcsc gross violations.” 

blown off the entire operation when The day before he was- convictal, 

NBC rrportcd that Cattle King. which Stmko. 37, told rcporim that he was 

had also been a major meat supplier to merely a poLitical scapegoat. A defense 

the Dcfcnsc Department. supermarkets lawyer argual that point in court. pa&- 

and the Roy Rogers and Wendy’s fasting a socnario even more frightening 

food chains, was regularly bringing dead than the prosecution’s Jaughtahousc 

animals into its slaughtcrhousc and mix- horror stork Responding to the sanitaing 

rottcn meat intoits hamburgas. The tion defects at the Cattk Ring plant, 

Agriculture Dcpartmcnt immcdiatcly attorney Roba-t McAEstcr admittcd, 

stopped the nationwide distribution of “Yes, those things happcncd. Like they 

20 million Rounds d Cattle Kiug ham- do in every other packing plant in the 

burger beef, and the Denver-area plant United Stats” 

soon &sad down. Faced with prosecu- 

~LURl.ENr;rh 

tion, scvcral implicated cmploym from IEFFRoxFlANDiD~ 

. 

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APPENINX c 

RECENT SCIFXIIFIC 

CORRCY30RATION 

(Note: The following is taken from uncorrected fiublisher’s page-preofs ,from 

Chapter 7 [The [“The Health Reform Vision --The Cure”] 

of Roger W. Coon’s 

The Great Visions of Ellen G. White, Vol. 1, to be published by the 

Review 4 Herald Publishing Assn. in the Spring of 1992) 

Scferhflc Corroboration 

Science has confirmed vittually all the counsels that emanated from Ellen White’s first maior health heahh reform 

vision of 1863. Limitations Of space prevent mention here of more than perhaps four points made that found their 

corroboration in scientific inquiry between 1950 and 19% 

1. Tobacco. fn 1863 Ellen White declared that tobacco was a “stow,” ” deceitful” (in 1886 this adjective was 

modified to read “insidious”), and “malignant” (in 1886. “most malignant”) poison. Has history subsequently 

borne this out? 

In the early 1950s Alton Oschner, MD., professor of thoracic surgery at Tulane University’s medical school. 

New Orleans, was among the eariitst to demonstrate an undeniable link between cigarette smoking and lung 

cancer. *6 . 4nd the three characterizations by Ellen White? 

a. “Slow”: Medical pathologists today declare that it takes approximarely 20 years to incubate a fu&blown 

case of lung cancer. 

b. “De&tful” or “insidious”: Medical specialists also tell US that if the patients wait for the overt symptoms 

of lung cancer to appear, it is usually to late to save their lives. The patients with this disease who OTC saved are 

those whose condition is revealed in the early stages as a result of routine X-rays. 

c. “Most malignant”: No informed medical scientist today would dispute the demonstrated link. between 

cigarette smoking and lung cancer. 

Ellen White was about 90 years ahead of her time on this one! 

2. Coflec, Ellen White was told by an angel from heaven in the autumn of 1848, and again in the spring of 

1863, that the drinking of coffee was deleterious to health, even life-threatening. 

In the March 12, 1981, NW Englclnd Jourmzl 4 MN&~IC veteran epidemiologist br, Brian Mach&&on 

reponed on a study done by his team of Harvard Univenity School of Public Health researchers. According to 

their study, the predisposing cause of cancer of the pancreas (one of the fastest killers of all cancers today) is 

coffee d&king. 

Then he “dropped the other sha” by adding that caffeine was probably not the chief culprit, since in his study 

group as many patients died from drinking decaffeinated coffee as those who died using the straight stuff.“’ 

Unsurprisingly, the coffee industry lobbyists quickly geared for a frontal attack on the study and its presenten: 

indeed, their livelihood and the survival of their industxy depended upon destroying the substantial impact this 

report (in one of the nation’s most respected medical journals) had created. 

A five-page anicle, “All About Caffeine.“~ by Lowell Ponte, appcarcd in the January 1983 Reader’s Digcsr 

in what was billed as “A Reader’s Digest Report to Consumers.” It tried to destroy the credibility of the 

.MacMahon report.‘” 

Mervyn G. Hardinge, M.D.. Ph.D., Dr.P.H., then director of the HealtWI’em*perance Department of the 

Central Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, responded in these wordx 

‘This article is obviously written by one who is defensive of the use of caffeine. After &me 25-30 yeus of 

countless articles showing that tob*eo smoke is detrimental to health, SC&S&U who smoke still claim there is 

. co hard evidence to relate smoking to human illness in the smoker. 

“The same is and will be true of those who use caffeine. I know of no way to discouat an article like this 

because no matter how carefully a study is put together. someone can criticize its structure, methodololly, 

interpretation, etc. I think our best c~ursc is to, whenever possible, present the evidence as we see it and allow 

the individual to choose his own amrse. 

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I thi.& caffeine is addictive (I am a pharmacologist), increaSes the i&&nce of coronary heart disease, is an 

adjunct to hypertension a.nd COUS@$Zntkd stroke, is a real instigator of peptic and duodenal ulcers, produccs birth 

defects (has long been kllOWn IO affect ChromOSOmeS), and irk recent npms co&g from &e Adventist Hcajth 

Study, is related to a sip Icant increase in cancer. I doubt, however, if the Reader’s Digest would be willing (0 

print such an article.” 

3. L’tge~~~i~nh. E&n White first learned of the substantial health ha~&s of a nonvcgc&a &et in 1863: 

she herself became a vegetarian immediately thereafter. 90 In 1900 she WC: “AIGITXSIS are becoming more and 

more diseased, ad it will not be long until w food will be discarded by many besides Seventh-day 

Adventists.** 9L 

Perhaps the most merit distinguished non-Adventist scientist to come forward urging vegetarianism is De= 

Omish, *M.D. His professional pedigree is impressive. * assistant clinical professor of medicine. (Jniversity of 

California, San Francisco. School of Medicine: attending physician. Pacific Presbyterian Medical Center, San 

Francisco; and president and director. Preventive Medicine Research Institute. Sausalito. California. 

His recent findings were little short of startling. Writing in Ho~piraf Procticc. May 15, 1991 (“Can Lifestyle 

Change Reverse Coronary Atherosclerosis. 3”). Or&h reported that “by combining a strict low-fat vegetarian 

diet, moderate aerobic exercise, abstinence from smoking, and stress management training” his stud&group was 

able to show “measurable repession of disease in patients with severe coronary atherosclerosis.” - 

Recently challenged on his view, Ornish ticked off the reasons for his vegetarian StiitlCc: 

* “Even severely blocked arteries began to unclog in the majority of heart patients when they stopped eating 

animal products and made other simple lifestyle changes. ‘* Atherosclerosis can be reversed! 

m A December 13, 1990, study in the NCH* Englnnd lour~/ ofhfedicine provides persuasive new evidence that 

the more red meat and animal fat women ate, the more likely they were (0 get colon cancer. Harvard’s Dr. Walter 

\Villelt, chief director of the study, declared. “The optimum amount of red meat you should eat should be zero.” 

e or. T. Colin Campbell, of Cornell University, directed a landmark study of 6.500 persons in mid-1990. He 

found that “the more meat they ate, the more likely they were lo die prematurely from coronary heart disease. 

colon cancer, breast cancer, prostate cancer, and lung cancer. among othe%‘* 

* “Many athletes are forgoing the pregame steak for foods high in complex carbohydrates because they find 

that eating less meat often increases their endurance.” 

l Most beef is ‘*still very high in fat. And cholesterol. Studies also indicate that meat protein and perhaps other 

substances in beef raise the risk of cancer and heart disease.” 

0 “Eating meat makes you fat.” 

In his conclusion Dr. 0rnish played on a recent slogan of the AIU$GUS Beef AsscIciahon (“Beef. Real food 

for real people.“) with the words “Meat. Real food for real death. 

4, Trust in Divine PoH~c~. Ellen White listed this a~ OLIC of “nature’s remedies.” Although I ftiy believe it, 

I never expected to find an empirical study demonstrating the veracity of her declaration. But now science has 

confirrtzd the value of even this “natural remedy”! The respected Soutkm Medical Journal of July 1988, 

included an article by Randolph C. Bird entited the “Positive Therapeutic Effects of Intercessory Prayer in a 

Coronary Care Unit Population.” * The two questions his study sought to answer were: (1) “Does intercessory 

prayer to the fudeo-Christian God have any effect on the patient’s medical condition and recovery?” and (2) 

“How arc these effects characterized, if present?” 

His study concludes with these findings: “Prayers to the Judeo-Christian God were made on behalf of the 

patients in the prayer [study] group by ‘born again’ believers in Jesus Christ. Analysis of events after entry into 

the study showed the prayer group had less congestive heart failure, required less diuretic and antibiotic therapy, 

had fewer episodes of pneumonia, had fewer cardiac arrests, and were less frequently intubated and ventilared. 

. * . 

“In this study I have attempted to determine whether intercessory prayer to the Judeo-Christian God has any 

effect on the medical condition and recovery of hospital patients. I have further attempted to measure any effects, 

if present, of those prayers. Based on these data there seemed to 

be an effect, and that effect was pnsumed to be beneficial.” 9s 

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(Note: In these uncorrected publisher’s page proofs there is at present a 

discrepancy that--hopefully--will not appear in the final published 

work, but which should be noted here: 

Footnote numeral 86 in the text is, in actuality, numeral 84 in the 

footnote references which follow. Each reference, therefore, is off a 

corresponding two digits. Please adjust accordingly.) 

‘66 *&ehner‘~ CUWIIU r&n (in ntuch he sppeued petwnaily). One tn NO&I. ptiuced in 1954. took It, title loom the fact that tn that year. just III 

cs~, ?o.oo(l lung amm patlent, died of thu diserre. The f&n wm produced and btnbuted by the fempennce DepuaTIenr of Ihe Gtn 

Conference of the SDA Church (mremcw WIL!I Wurton Benven. PhD., Ketteruq. Ohio. July 8.1991). Same 30 yean after One sn 3U.ooO p;u r&a 

the menan death toll from lurq Mctr rcshed 121.000 (of a toteI of 139,ooO M), a more tfun 600 pcment mctecie m three decades. Women 

r.01. begn to smoke UI Iarge numben uralI the early 1940s. so female fatiIies frcun Iun$ ancer b4iP.n CO iobfn kge vt the duly 1960% By Feb 

of 1984 1~ ancer surpassed breast ancer u the leading cower ause of Amenan women fat.aIitig from ducUe. BY tiober. 1988 lung cancer 

the Icad& cnuse of death among Amencan nomen from all CIUYI. 

,237 

dd Brian h[achlahon Ste!Ja Yen Dtitnus Trichpoulos. Kenneth Wwen, end George Na& ‘Cobee uxf Culcer of the Rnaeac; New &gb 

Joumnl q/.Wxfic~ns 304. So. 11 (Mu. 12.1981): 630-633. Reports ncr-e also culvd in N?usuurk Mu. 2.3.1981, p. 87, and h’mu, Mar. 23.1981 

a 

rkcs “Pp. 72.76. 

8-3 

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to Roger W. Coo& Wuhing~oh D.C, Jan 11.1983. 

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42 

=Yr 1’4. 

wP. 10;. TIC3 utrle coven pp 107-114. 

-3 o( ‘For a Better life. Don’t EaC AN Beef,” USA T&V. lntenuuozul Mitioh Dee. 19.1990. p. 5.A 

94 

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*Pp. 826.829. 

“hii p. 029. 

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Jan van Eys, Ph.D., 

M.D. 

Dr. van Eys (ARA, University of 

Washington, 1959) is Mosbacher 

Chair in Pediatrics, head of the Division 

of Pediatrics and chairman of 

the Departments of Pediatrics and 

Experimental Pediatrics at the University 

of Texas M. D. Anderson Hospita/ 

and Tumor institute in Houston, 

Texas. He is also chairman ad 

interim at the University of Texas 

School of Medicine in Houston. This 

paper is adapted from the author’s 

presentation at a grand rounds for 

the University of Texas System Cancer 

Center, July, 1987. 

a cure when neither surgery nor medical principles of the materia medica 

icine exist to eradicate that disease used. Many remedies, nostrums, and 

f rom the patient. The demand to be interventions were drastic and yet 

realistic, however, also demands an frequently ineffectual. There were 

accurate view of the social structure many detractors from classical alof 

health care delivery and medical lopathic medicine, some of whom 

education. In addition, physicians reached transient but great respectmust 

have a basic assumption of ability. Homeopathic medicine as 

what constitutes optimal medical advocated by Samuel Hahnemann is 

knowledge in order to pursue the ex- but one example. 

isting and new knowledge that is re- Yet the observations on which disquired 

to be the best physician pos- ease was described and epidemics 

sibleO 

were tracked were not inaccurate. 

We have a view of medicine as a Many excellent descriptions of disscientific 

discipline that stems from ease existed that would allow reliable 

recognition of syndromes if they 

were taught to today’s students. What 

challenge of medicine is to help 7ME MIN-ISTRY the physicians did not always see was 

d, if possible, to cure persons the patients special need behind the 

disease. While the knowledge OF HEALiN@ disease or the contribution of social 

on which we base our attempts at behavior to cause. 

cure has grown and improved, the This relationship is best illusbasic 

demand remains: to use the trated by the case of pediatrics, Chilbest 

of that knowledge, to offer the dren were not recognized as persons 

greatest hope. with unique needs until late in the 

The challenge has changed over nineteenth century. The first lecthe 

years because medicine is not tures on diseases of children at Hardelivered 

in isolation. Scientific dis- vard School of Medicine were given 

coveries are not alway made because by Francis Minot in 1871 s2 The Chilof 

medical and humanitarian moti- dren’s Hospital of Boston admitted 

vation. Rather, pursuit of science is its first patient in July 1869. The 

often the outward sign of a personal idea was that philanthrophy, aided 

drive for exploration beyond the real- by science, would cure the social ills 

ity to which disease and suffering of the country.3 It was social presseem 

so inexorably bound. And med- sure that started pediatrics. The outicine, 

as a scientific discipline, is cry of social commentators like 

influenced by the ambient atmos- Charles Dickens shamed the Westphere 

of philosophical understand- ern world’s conscience into seeing 

ing of the nature of health and dis- the child’s needs as unique. It was 

ease. Finally, medicine is practiced only natural that the ineffectiveness 

within a social context of human of allopathic medicine as then pracconstraint 

and reward systems. ticed would be recognized and the 

These internal and external pres- the revolution in medical science that contribution of social suppression 

sures on the practice of medicine do began in the late nineteenth and earfy acknowledged. Critical evaluation of 

not suppress the general attempt by twentieth century. That was the era the data on which allopathic medimedicine’s 

practitioners to do good. of the therapeutic nihilism of Osler tine was based became the order of 

Although excesses do occur rather and the academic emancipation of the day. At the same time biomedfrequently, 

they are not the norm. medical education following the ical research flourished in Europe. 

The philosophy of medicine is based Flexner report. Nevertheless, while Physiological chemistry was born; 

on the notion that medicine, the care we assume those ideals to be the pathology gave birth to medical miof 

the sick, is itself a good and that basis of our medical care now and crobiology; and physiology became 

the practitioners of medicine are for the development of newer strat- based on experiment. 

therefore successful only if they try egies to be used in the future, the The social impact on medicine was 

to do good.’ reality is very different. felt first. I would like to quote Ellen 

Attempts at doing good for the pa- Medical practice in the late nine- G. White, the founder of the Seventhtient 

will generally only be success- teenth century was based on tradi- Day Adventist Church, as a paradigm 

ful if they are realistic. In one sense tion and observation. Little was for the social conscience in medithat 

is a truism. One cannot promise understood about the pharmacolog- tine. She wrote: 

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Modern medkh and old dilmunas 

Out artificial civilization is en- view Sir William Csler as the quin- Osler then continued by advising 

couraging evils destructive of tessential physician of the early treating the fever with cold water. He 

sound principles. Custom and modern era. It is instructive to read did have symptomatic remedies and 

fashion are at war with nature. The his famous textbook of medicine. The mentioned attempts at attacking the 

practices they enjoin, and the in- first section of his Principles and typhoid bacillus directly. But, basidulgences 

they foster, are steadily Practice of Medicine deals with spe- tally, he agreed with the view that 

lessening both physical and men- cific infectious diseases. The first nature must heal and that the attal 

strength, and bringing upon the disease Osler described in great de- tempts of medicine to that day had 

race an intolerable burden. In- tail is typhoid fever. He recognized been unsuccessful at best and harmtemperance 

and crime, disease its etiology and gave an accurate and ful at worst. It would be an interestand 

wretchedness, are every- instructive description of the path- ing piece of historical research to 

.wherp,h PP. 125-X ophysiology. He understood prophy- learn whether Ellen White had read 

laxis by sterilization of and avoiding Osler’s textbook. It is quite possible 

Clearly, she linked diseases and so- contact with the vehicles by which that her ideas were reinforced by this 

cial injustices, seeing them as hav- the organism could be transmitted. “fresh air” in medicine. 

ing one and the same etiology. Her 

There is a real difference, howmovement 

was successful because 

ever, between Osler and White. The 

she articulated what most people felt. 

promises of science were widely ac- 

She assumed physicians to be edu- 

knowledged. Osler had views of scicaters 

in health promotion: 

ence creating direct therapy, whereas 

The only hope of better things Mrs. White accepted science only as 

is in the education of the people c-l= ~EDlcl~~ a route to improvement of the human 

in the right principles. Let physi- lot. Both saw the key to improvement 

cians teach the people that res- in medical education. It was there 

torative power is not in drugs, but that the greatest changes had to take 

in nature. Disease is an effort of place in order for nineteenth-century 

nature to free the system from practice to advance to the scientific 

conditions that result from a vio- medicine of today. Many voices were 

lation of the laws of health. In case raised for a thorough examination of 

of sickness, the cause should be medical education, and the leaders 

ascertained. Unhealthful condi- of many institutions worked dilitions 

should be changed, wrong gently for the improvement and reghabits 

corrected. Then nature is to ulation of medical schools. The name 

be assisted in her effort to expel permanently associated with that 

impurities and to re-establish right movement is that of Abraham Flexconditions 

in the system.4.P. 127 ner. His report, “Medical Education 

in the United States and Canada,” 

It is not surprising that Ellen White to the Carnegie Foundation for the 

advocated pure air, sunlight, abste- Advancement of Teaching, served 

miousness, rest, exercise, proper both as a searing indictment of the 

diet, the use of water, trust in divine sorry state of medical education at 

power. Those, she said, were the true 

the turn of the century and as a blueremedies. 

Now, eighty years later, print of what medical education 

we believe that we have more pow- But when it came to treatment, he ought to be.? The Flexner report, 

erful tools, and indeed we do. We sounded little different from Mrs. published in 1910, was based on 

must remember, howevei’, that the White: medical school visits made in 1909. 

incidence of cancer in the Seventh- The profession was long in learn- In the late nineteenth century the 

Day Adventist Church members is ing that typhoid fever is not a dis- conduct of a medical school was a 

significantly lower than that found in ease to be treated by medicines. profitable business. The expense of 

the general population of similar eth- Careful nursing and regulated diet laboratory teaching and research was 

nit and age distribution.!j are the essentials in a majority of not yet pressing. When science ed- 

We may dismiss the teachings of the cases. The patient should be ucation became essential the schools 

Mrs. White as valid health mainte- in a well-ventilated room (or in had inadequate income to meet the 

nance but not relevant as an ap- summer out of doors during the demand. Hospitals did not open their 

preach to the suffering patient who day), strictly confined to bed from wards to teaching, and medical 

alreadv has a disease. Nevertheless, the outset, and there remain until school facultv members had to earn 

she wa’s in direct agreement with the convalescence is well estab- their way, {rimarily from private 

best of medicine in those days. We lished.6. p. 33 practice income. Osler was a profes- 

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sor of medicine at the Johns Hopkins lutions to these quandaries. schools.g They found 118 practice 

Medical School from 1895 to 1905, Whenever we encounter new prob- plans in the 127 schools and conleaving 

for Oxford before Flexner’s lems we seek solutions that accept eluded: 

visit. It was not the fact that medi- as givens the principles of natural 

Disposition of collected revenues, 

tine was impotent that made the healing of White, the therapeutic 

the role of for-profit FFPs, the perschools 

poor but their refusal to ac- honesty of Osler, and the faith in the 

sonal lucrative nature of FFPs, an 

cept that reality. Flexner pointed out scientific promise of Flexner. But can 

unwieldy number of fairly autonthat 

scientific research and teaching we really take for granted that these 

omous departments, ineffective 

was what made the basics of medi- values are shared by all? I propose 

governance, and hostile oppositine 

sound and effective. It was im- that many of our solutions are 

tion from other parts of the uniportant 

that the faculty teach and doomed because the ground rules on 

versity have raised questions of 

not be engaged primarily in the pri- which we base our arguments do not 

conflict of interest and accountvate 

practice of medicine, Their job really hold any longer, if they were 

ability.9, p 58 

was to devote themselves to the fur- ever generally accepted. I shall exthering 

of scientific knowledge. amine briefly the current reality of Flexner insisted that medical ed- 

The other important facet of the ocation is a social function and not 

Flexner report was his scathing de- a commercially supported enternunciation 

of admission standards, Mf2DfCAf.m prise. The commercialization de- 

which he found to be inadequate. 

tracts from the primary purpose, the 

Most medical schools accepted stu- E DUC/U-IOhl IN fostering of knowledge through eddents 

with less than a high school 

ucation and research. Dedication to 

-T-i-E I)mEPs7-A~s 

education. Only the Johns Hopkins knowledge is what is to be transmit- 

University required “the bachelor’s ,&ND CANADA ted to the next generation of physidegree, 

representing specific attain- cians. Commercialization distorts 

ments in chemistry, physics, biol- priorities. We are not necessarily as 

ogy, German, and French.“7*~. 23d dedicated to intellectual pursuit as 

Note the liberal arts component. 

we surmise. 

Our concept of the modern med- We must add to our concern about 

ical school curriculum is based on the resurgence of commercialization 

the Flexner model. Almost all of US in medical schools a worry about the 

make the basic assumption, nay, structure under which the FFPs are 

profess the faith, that modern Amer- currently reimbursed. Insurance 

ican medicine is based on sound and companies and health maintenance 

forward-looking medical research, organizations exercise a great deal of 

that ineffective interventions are influence over the limits of tertiary 

quickly dismissed from the thera- and research care. The commercialpeutic 

armamentarium, and that ac- ization threatens precisely that asademic 

health care is delivered for pect of academic medicine that 

the objective of teaching. Academic ought to be prized most highly- the 

medicine is considered the ultimate pursuit of new knowledge in the inin 

tertiary care for the diagnostic di- terest of the patient whose disease 

lemmas and the therapeutically surpasses the routine. Commercialcomplex. 

ization constrains the premise that 

All agree that scientific medicine Flexner’s, Osler’s, and White’s ide- the interest of the patient will always 

has brought with it new dilemmas, als, be paramount because our intellecseen 

as the consequence of this ba- The medical schools and aca- tual progress is free and unimpeded. 

sically sound and humane structure demic research centers of today are The second assumption we make 

of Western society, which promises veering far away from the Flexner is that we always will abandon into 

offer its best to the sick and the model. The Flexner report specifi- effective medications promptly. Osstricken. 

One danger, the potential tally condemned all forms of com- ler’s refreshing honesty about the 

for excesses from thoughtless appli- mercialism in medical education. usefulness and effectiveness of thercation 

of technology, is generally Flexner asserted that medical edu- apeutic interventions was important 

recognized. Further, the difficulties cation cannot be conducted properly to the reformation of medicine into 

that surround the intermingling of at a profit, and that high income sig- the scientific discipline that the 

clinical research and care are famil- nifies low standards. In 1986 Gor- Flexner model envisioned and Geriar 

to almost all. Both dangers have don K. MacLeod and M. Roy Schwarz man biomedical science made posgenerated 

structures for oversight reviewed faculty practice plans sible. From that beginning a vast 

that embody the commonly held so- (FFPs) in United States medical structure of clinical research has 

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and Religion 

Ronald D. Graybill 

osepha Hale, a popu- the health reformers to buttress the mes- sugar as an example. Saccharine matter 

lar novelist and pur- sagesshe received in vision. In 1863 Mrs. in vegetables was nutritive and salutary, 

vevor of domestic White completed the written account of he taught, but when concentrated in 

advice to ante- her major health reform vision in Health: syrup or ctystalli:ed in sugar, it was “debellum 

housewives, or How to Lice. There, along with her cidedly unfriendly to the physiological 

offered the following own articles, she included articles by Interests of our bodies.” ’ Except for 

recipe in her new other health reformers that supported 

bread, Graham offered no recipes. He 

cookbook: “Pork Cheese-Choose the believed that raw food was generally bet+ 

what she was teaching. She sometimes ter than cooked. 9 

head of a small pug. . . . Sprinkle over it, used orher reformers’ words in her writ- In 1649 the lack of recipes was made 

and the tongues of four pigs, a little com- ings, ’ so it is remarkable that her urit- up for by Dr. W’ll’am A. Alcott, a Yale 

--- --It and a very little saltpetre. Let ings are as free as they are from the more 

c- graduate and prolif’c health reform authem 

lie rour says; ‘- - --.--l. wd>” them and tie questionable ideas of the health reformthem 

until the ers, rhough they do include some con- rhor, who included a 22-page pamphlet, 

them in a clean cloth: boil 

the head; take ceprs that scientists might question to- “Outl’nes of a Xew System of Food and 

bones come easily out of 

sible. . . . Place 

day. ’ Cookep,” complete ;irh rec’pes, in his 

off the skin as whole as pos 

J. H. Waggoner explained that the book Vegembk D’et. ’ 

the skin round the tin an? I nearly half fill 

Adventist health message was unique, Alcott’s recommendations contained 

it with meat, which has b. een highly seanot 

so much ‘n what it taught as that it some curious not’ons. Bread of the first 

soned with pepper, caye’ -me, and salt. 

was given “by the method of God’s order? he : taught, was made with nothing 

. . . It is eaten with vinega r and mustard, 1 rhr\irc. mnrP ,-I~~~I~. an,j nnu.Pri,rt~v but unbolted wh eat flour and ,warer. 

and served for luncheon or supper.” ’ ‘-‘;~-‘;e~‘,; j”‘- -*----I -..- I---.- --‘--” 

Bread of the second order allowed for the 

Health reformer Russell Trail de- 

/ mixing of \qrimlc“.._I & LinA< . ...-< -. nf whnlp.otain ....-.- ~ .-... 

scribed this effort to make a dead p!g re- 1 Dietarv advice of early health 1 floursrand only if you wanted bread of 

semble a live one as “vitiating - to all true 1 refo&ers 

_-__.---- - 

1 the third order could you allow carbonate 

delicacy and refinement. .” Because he 

When Adventists consulred the of soda to enter th e recipe. ” 

found other popular cool cbooks equally 

health reformers of their day, what ad- Gra’ns came next in Alcott’s cookunsatisfactory, 

Trail issue d his own Hvspice 

did they receive? Sylvesrer Gra- book, T -hey could be boiled, baked, 

dropnthic Cook Book in 1E 153, and it was ham’s 1839 volume Lectures on he SC;- parched, road. or “toxef ‘ied.” He infrom 

books like this that health-minded 

ence of Hrtmnn L’Je was considered the eluded green bean’ 

s among 

the rains. but 

Adventists received their first lessons on 

classic reference among Advent’sts. &s. labeled them “lea! 

;r healthy.” 5 

cooking and diet. 

E. G. White’s personal copy of rh’s book Cakes could be 

made by adding butter 

can be seen in the White Estare library. orol’ve ml. rogcth 

er uirh u’rh eggsor milk, to 

Adventists and the hea Ith reform 

Graham provided extensive argu- ;~‘,~~~d rec’pes. 

Pddinps P~dd~nps 

could be “a 

movement 

merits for a vegecar’an diet. He was espeted, 

ii ir : must be so,” and some 

Pioneer Adventist JOS eph Bates was 

c’ally keen on the value of bread, devora recipes allowed fc 

)r molasses, 

eggs, and 

typical of the reformers ( sf the day. An 

ing 40 pages of text to this topic alone. ’ e\‘en “‘gar Or ra’S’ ns 1: 

abolitionist and pacifist, he was also a Fruits ranked next to bread as the most Pies. as commc Jnly made, were “vile 

temperance advocate ant I vegetarian be- appropriate food for man, and Graham, compounds”, “a ’ mongrel race” as far as 

fore he ever heard of Wi lliam Miller or unlike some of his followers, even as- Alcott was conce med, but he did deign 

rhe _..__ se\*enth-dav - -.... ~., Sabbath. ’ serted that the healthy and vigorous to offer recipes for squash, pumpkin, 

Ellen White turned to tl- ‘e writings Of could digest cabbage, -cucumbers, lets and potato pies. Alcott conceded that 

tuce, and other salads. ’ nlnin anole nip nn=in gc tt> he. 

,ionald I D. Gtn>bill, Ph.D., ‘s ussociore Graham warned about all artificial I T-r---rr cv,,,c - .-,,Ic,~ -.- \“e. 

r L‘ 

4t,p’CSz ’ 

.IILI”L 2” ‘..Y”’ 

..,-- 

iuce, was not objectionprofessor 

of h’st? at Loma Lmdu [J’niwer- combinations and concentrations of ei- able. ” 

cirv ---i. Lam -- Lmda. - Cdfumiu. , 

ther animal or vegetable food, giLsing Amone 0th~ ,-. fndc .“-.._ . Air ..- on had l’ttle 

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espect for were oranges, which were too Trail‘s New Hydropathic Cook Book < 

“stringy”; ‘s raw onions, which were un- was more than a list of recipes. It in- 

wholesome; and cabbage, which was eluded material on digestion as well as a Alcott had little 

“tolerable, but rather str$g, and of nearly exhaustive illustrated catalog of 

course, rather indigestible. 

respect for oranges, 

01 the many roots he considered the vegetab’e foods’ 

potato the best. It could best be p,repared Trall included a few directions for 

which were too 

by baking. worst prepared b,*fvi&. The cooking meat as a compromise with 

su‘eet and watery roots-beers, parsnips, “present appetences” and the “degen- “stringy,” and 

turnips, and carrots-were far less erate state ofsociety.” *’ His selection of 

healthful than the mealy ones, and the vegetables, grains, and fruits was much cabbage, which was 

radish, “fashionable as it is. is nearly broader than Alcott’s, and he lacked, by 66 

and large, Alcotc’sprejudices against cer- tolerable, but rather 

useless.” I’ 

In 1656 Alcotr published The Ln~s of tain vegetab’es* 

The fundamental principle in Trall’s stringy, and of course, 

Health, which Mrs. White also owned. 

Here he repeated many of the cautions philosophy of diet was rhat all nutritive 

material is fotmed by vegetables, hence 

rather indigestible.” 

that Graham had earlier voiced, and that 

lvere to become standard advice in Ad- animal foods are inferior because they are 

ventist literature about eating: food derivatipe and likely to be impure. Trail 

should be eaten in a cheerful mood and understood that the body was composed 

thoroughly chewed. One should nor eat of various chemical elements, 13 of 

more often than three times a day at six- which must be gotten from our food. This deal about adulteration and contaminahour 

inter\pals, but eating two meals a day provided little help in choosing foods) tion in food. Earlier on, digestibility and 

is Freferable; one should stop eating however, since Trail believed that these whether food was stimulatingot not were 

while still a bit hungry. NO eating be- elements were thoroughly distributed importanr criteria. In lS6S J. N. Loughcween 

meals, no liquids with meals, not throughout the animal and vegetable borough‘s Hand Book of Health cbserved 

too many varieties of food at one meal, kingdom so that people always got a suf- that food that was too stimulating caused 

and hold the sugar, the condiments, and ficienc supply. ” a greater expenditure of viral energy and, 

the meat, especially pork. Is Trail also entertained the notion that like alcohol, left the body deptessed. *5 

Alcott also discussed digestion and di- only a very small quantity of water was I According to Loughborough, fats such 

gestive juices, although he had no notion necessary, provided one’s diet was core 8 as butter and animal oils \vere too conof 

the specific action of the various rect. Unlike Alcott, Trail had a very centrated and impure, were only slightly 

juices. He entertained the curious idea high regard for the place of fiber in rhe nutritious, and were difficult to digest. *’ 

that digested food got into the blood- diet. He thought, however, that it uas I hlerritt Kellogg also believed that fats 

stream via a large duct that carried ir up nutritious, and rejected rhe notion that / and oils did not contain the p;:per ele. 

to a point near the left shoulder and it stimulated the action of the bowels. ‘4 ments to build up vital rissues. 

poured it into a large vein. I9 None of the books Adventists con- 

He provided a list of foods that were Dietary advice by early Adventists sulted on diet recommended nuts until 

considered injigestible, at least fotclebil- From the m&186& onward, Ad- the veT end of the nineteenth century. 

itaceJ stomachs: fat meat, butter, pre- vencists had available co them actvice 

Xtrs. White did not include nuts in her 

sert.cd substances of every kind. harJ- from Adventist authors on digestion. nu- 

ns in mcnr and other appreciation oirhe role ofcertain miner- I i ,Jnction. . 

t;xrJz. 

;lls, but knew nk,rhing, oicourse, abour / Louphbarough‘s t\vO chid argimenrs 

\y’hen James V.‘hiw rtJiwJ anJ pub I vitamins. 

I-.- 

’ aonincr tlesh tcjf)J--that 

” 

ir is more stim- 

IisheJ the H&h: (IT HIW trj Li1.t pam, 1 In the absence ni kn&rJze Awr , ul.lrtng nnJ more Jise:lceJ thnn plnnr 

phlerb in lS65, hc incluJeJ the first c‘c~- 1 h O\V rhe h,J, urilires fc~\J, orher crlreria j yr~~Jucr~-trcrr USCJ exrensivziy 

It&m Ott’ AJ\.rnrl~t recipes. The 12 / uere LIWJ t\lJrtsrminc the&sir;&lirv ~4 i rhr~xlgh~alt rhe nincwnth century ly 

AJ~rn~isr laJtc3 t’nan lLrrk Creek rvho , v;lr~ou~ ioocfj. Throughour this pcrluJ / .IrJ\.rnrisr;. The rmar\)mical arzumenr, 

C{)lllpild the recipe> ga\‘r: credit. ht)w- j rhc J:lngcr oi &ease irtlm flesh iocJ and i r~~~ci:~llV :I\ regrJs the teeth (human 

ever. t hc RusseIlTr:\ll nnJ / anim;ll prcHju(ra I~~c~rn~J large. Ncjr the tc~rh ;Ite not like carniv~~rc~’ reeth), also) 

. ” I 

1 en Jil 11 t IC ccnrurv Kellogg mu& a L’rei\l rrceivccl ;I zrr;lr Jr;11 ~)icmph;l>i\. 

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“We believe there is 

better ground on 

which to rest 

[prohibition of pork] 

than the ceremonial 

1 aw of the former 

dispensation,” Uriah 

Smith wrote. 

1 

Clean and unclean meats 

Adventists would have nothing to dc 

with pork, but on physiological, not bib. 

lical, grounds. “We believe there is beta 

ter ground on which to rest [prohibitior 

of pork] than the ceremonial law of the 

former dispensation,” Uriah Smith 

wrote. “For if we take the position tha 

that law is still binding, we must accept i 

al!, and then we shall have inore on ou 

hands than we can easily dispose of.” ” 

It should not be’too surprising, then 

ro learn that some of our pioneers, in 

eluding Ellen White, sometimes are un. 

clean meat such as oysters. 29 They die i 

not understand that they were under an) i 

biblical injunction against unclear 1 

meats. 

Adventists and other health reformer s 

came down hard against pork, though 

Alcott insisted that pork caused leprosy 

_. and other skin diseases, as did Trail. ” that milk was likely to be “frelghred with 

Ellen White affirmed rhe idea. I’ a!- the products of disease,” especially tythough 

in 1858 she had not yet con- phoid fever. 

demned the eating of “swine’s tlesh.” j2 Kellogg’s advice on milk seems to have 

Kellogg could describe a hog in the most kept up well with scientific developdisgusting, 

revolting terms, and did so at 

great length. 33 

ments of the times. In 1886 the chemist 

Soxhlet, who developed pasteurization, 

had recommended heating milk fed to 

Health reformers and animal infants. 39 Kellogg advised his readers to 

products 

do so the very next year. It was not until 

The health reformers’ advice on ani- 1892 that the first bacterial count ofmarmal 

products-milk, butter, cheese, and ket milk was made in the United States, 

eggs-generally discouraged their use but Kellogg had already been warning his 

without imposing an absolute ban. 

Sylvester Graham observed that milk 

was praised by almost every writer on diet 

as being “one of the most nourishing and 

wholesome kinds of food that man can 

readers for years of germs in milk. Not 

until 1910 was the relationship between 

tuberculosis in animals and children definitely 

esrablished. Kellogg had spoken 

of the danger of tuberculosis in 1887. 

eat, ” 34 but eight years of research on the Digestibility, adulteration, and dissubject 

had shaken hjs confidence in this ease were again the chief concerns when 

widely held belief. ” 

these writers turned their attention to 

Tral! also took a dim view of milk. In 

his Hydropathic Encyclopedin he argued 

that it was “apt to irritate the kidneys, or 

produce restlessness and uneasy sleep, 

with feverishness, and dryness or bad 

cheese. Graham would allow only a little 

cheese, and that nor more than three 

months old, for robust laboring men because 

old cheese of any type was frequently 

adulterated by the addition of 

taste in themouth.” Evenso, he regarded annatro and even arsenic to give it a rich, 

sour milk, whey, and buttermilk to be creamy appearance. 4o Alcott echoed 

entirely harmless, though no berter than these same objections. Trail said: “Green 

water. 36 

cheese is not very objectionable, but old, 

Merritt Kellogg’s Hygienic Family Phi;+ strong cheese is one of the most injurious 

and indigestible things in existence. s* 41 

sicinn discussed milk only under “food for 

infants, ” li and the 1875 H@uc Cook Butter also got poor reviews. Graham 

Book, which John Harvey Kellogg prob- suggesred avoiding it altogether. It aggraably 

edited, argued that COW’S milk IS bet- vated diseases of every kind, he said, and 

ter for children than for adults because of injured children and youth more than 

certain changes in the digestive organs adults. 42 

that re nder milk “and al! kinds of fluid Alcott believed it to be one of the 

n,,rrim ent” nh;wtim&&. 38 worst things to enter the human stom- 

The 1875 took1 Jook further argued ach, next to fat oork, and if it did”not, 

BEYOND BELIEF,” -

like pork, quite cause the leprosy,” it to the Rocky Mountains in 1873, they 1 - 

would certainly cause every other skin 

disease. 43 Trail found it difficult CO digest, 

only slightly nutritive, and “liable to 

had not used butter. Once there, however, 

Mrs. White concluded that in the 

absence ofvegetables and fruit, it was less 

generate rancid acids in the stomach.” 4’ detrimental co health than “sweetcakes 

Fresh-made and slightly salted, it was al- and nicknacks.” s2 

most innocuous, but melted ot Zooked, it 

was a “very deleterious aliment.” Trail, ena Sanitarium, sne wrote tn ’ at “not a 

like all these writers, recommended 

sweet cream as a substitute. ‘s 

Kellogg had even more setious objections 

to margarine, “an article which is 

wholly counterfeit,” containing “immense 

quantities of lard and tallow,” and 

often “portions offlesh, membranes, and 

muscular tissue, probably from diseased 

hogs and cattle.” 46 

Graham considered all he had said 

about milk to be applicable also to eggs, 

though he also considered eggs more 

“highly animalized” than milk. Still, if 

they were taken raw or only very slightly 

cooked, they were quite nourishing and 

not difficult to digest. But he considered 

hard-boiled eggs very difficult for the_ 

stomach to handle without oppression. ” 

Alcott’s opinions were similar. In addition 

to hard-boiled eggs, Trail added 

poached eggs and omelettes to the forbidden 

list, declarino them “outrages on 

human stomachs.” ” 

The 1875 Hygienic Cook Book reicerared 

all the earlier arguments-eggswere 

exciting and stimulating and when 

boiled hard or fried in grease and eaten 

with pepper and salt, very indigestible. 

For these reasons they should be excluded 

from cakes and custards as well. 49 

Adventist vegetarian diet 

Without fu&her research we cannot 

thoroughly answer the question of whar 

Adventist vegetarians are. We can cite 

only rhe example of Ellen White, who 

was probably stricter than many Adventists, 

yet not as strict as others. She 

always considered herself a vegetarian, 

but between the 1870s and the early 

189i7she occasionally are a little meat. 

“We have always used a little milk and 

some sugar,” Mrs. White wrote in 

1873, 5’ and it is likely that she continued 

this practice in later years. She made 

a similar moderate use of eggs. Even 

though she anticipated a time when milk 

and eggs would need to be discarded, she 

urged Adventists nor to bring on a “time 

of trouble” ptemarurrly and assured them 

that God would reveal when the time 

had arrived to discard milk, butter. and 

eggs. ” 

For some years before the Whites’ trip 

“We have always 

used a little milk and 

In 1884, after her visit to the St. Hel- ‘Orne sugar, ” Mrs. 

White wrote in 1873, 

‘en on her 

and it is likely that 

she continued this 

practice in later years. 

morsel of meat or butter” had be 

table since she returned. 53 Then in 1894 

she said, “We eat no meat, and do not 

have butteron the table.” 5’The distinction 

between “eating” and having something 

“on the table” may imply that they 

still &ed butter in cooking,. but did not 

place it on the table for use as a spread or A 

to flavor food. 

Mrs. White probably used cheese less 

than she used meat. She admitted to hav- dealing with the theme, but much of the 

ing taken a small piece of cheese that was dietav advice Adventists got was 

set before her when she was a guest, but, through Kellogg’s journals and books. 

she said, the family did nor “buy cheese, Mrs. White, of course, provided religious 

or make a practice of eating it. ” 55 In perspectives, but she did not write much 

1901 she explained that she had “tasted on diet in the 1870s and 1880s and her 

cheese once or Kwice, but that is a differ- writings from the 1860s were at times out 

ent thjng from making it an article of ofprint later in the century;. 

diet.” ‘6 Other Adventists apparently ate Bv the end of thecenturv this situation 

cheese more freely. It was being sold in had ‘changed. Milton C. Wilcox’s 1899 

the provision tent at one camp meeting essay “Man’s Primitive and Best Diet” 

where Dr. John Harvey Kellogg, newly stronoly emphasi:ed the bibhcal perspecarrived 

on the grounds, dlscovered it. cive. z3 

The camp grocer said he had the permis- He stressed the importance of the food 

sion of one of the camp duectors to sell we eat tn the sight of God: “I wish above 

the cheese. Kellogg bought it all and all things that thou mayest prosper and 

dumped it in the river. s7 

be in health” (3 John 2); “Whether 

In addition to a wide variety of fruits therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever 

and vegetables, the Whites and other ye do, do all to the glory of God” (1 Cor. 

Adventists ate many other foods. 10:31); and numerous other texts. Then 

Kellogg producedgranola, a dry breakfast he went on to argue that good health is a 

cereal, for his patients at the Battle part of being wholly sancnfled. 

Creek Sanitarium, and then in 1877 he Harking back to man’s original diet, 

organized the Sanitarmm Health Food he traced the histori of diet through bib- 

Company to serve a wider marker with heal tunes, ending with a chart depicting 

producrs such as oatmeal, graham and this history from the natural fruit and 

fruit crackers, and whole-grain cooked gram dler of Eden through the flesh 

cereals. SC In 1896 he began to produce meats of Babylon and Egypt and then 

Nuttose, a substiruce for meat. 59 He also ascending again afrer 1844 to a diet of 

produced a cereal coffee made from fruits and grains at the Second Coming. 

burned bread crusts, bran, molasses, and But whether the rising hne after 1844 is 

corn. ” Kellogg introduced peanur but- as straight, steep, and unbroken as 

ter mto the American diet, 6’ but his Wilcox depicted it, or whether it curves 

most famous Invention was comflakes. away to a plateau after a hundred or so 

which his brother Will parlayed inK0 a years, is somethtng for us ro determine.= 

multlbilllon~dollar busmess. 6- 

(New York: Fowlers and Wells. 18ji). . vii. 

COnclusion 

: Gtdticy T. AnJer5w. Oumder o P 3u Apcxa- 

Health has always been an avenue lpre (SiounC31n View. GIli.: Pacific Press Pub. 

Assn.. 1971), pp. 3i. 36, 41. 104. 

along which Adventists met and ap- 

’ Compare. for rnsrJncc. Ellen G. White. Appealed 

to the world. Perhaps because of pal to Stalin (Battle Creek. 

this, religious and biblical arguments 1864~. F. 9. wth James C. Jackson. The Scxul 

were scarce in Kellogg’s writings. The 

Or~mrm ad Irs Hrdchf~l httinugrmsron: B. 

Lsererr Emerson. 1861). pp. 74. 75. where Ellen 

Rrxwu, contained an occasional article Wh~rc UKI none separate pnrallcl, from Jdson‘a 

hlxh.: Swam Press. 

S~ISISTRYICCI-OEER/I~&~ !i 

166

h*tl;. Suchpnrnliels are rare in Ellen White’s early+ :; hf. G. K;rll~lC~. Thti Hupmi Fdrnll\ Ph\3lLwl ” Alcott. \‘cptddc Diet. p. 25s. 

err hc.llrh rwtingp&r; C,.,k &.,k. p. 1~;. 

* See Rcqer Cn,>n. .S~‘nww ~,n Cowmp~~~ iormer. li53), p. II. 

ii Ihrd. 

Issws m Prrrphrri~ Gui&n

ou’ve probably heard the story 

of the man who was concerned 

because his head was thumping and 

his eyes were bulging. So he went to 

the doctor, who said, “I have some 

bad news for you. You have a 

serious illness and have only about 

six months left to live.” 

Well, the man went home and 

began to ponder what he would like 

to do with his last six months of life. 

It just so happened that he loved 

shirts, all kinds of shirts. So he went 

to the clothing store and chose a 

number of beautiful shirts to enjoy 

during his last six months. The 

shopkeeper looked at the size of the 

shirts he had chosen, then looked at 

him and said, “Those shirts are too 

small for you.” 

But the man said, “Why, I’ve 

always worn this size.” 

The shopkeeper replied, “If you 

keep wearing that smaller size, it 

will make your head thumo and 

your eyes 1 Glge!” 

We too. when we ‘re not feeling 

well either physically or spiritually: 

often go around looking for some 

complex solution to our problem, 

when the answer can be very simple-so 

simple that we overlook it 

for that rea son. 

Todav a new kind of med icine is 

i gaining popularity-preventive 

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169

medicine. Medical people who are Usuallv a nerson who is having work to help us have the right kinc 

tired of treating only symptoms and serious probl’ems with his health ii of prayer, even though we-feel WI 

are interested in learning more falling down on one, or two, or even fall far short. 

about how to treat the real causes of more of these eight simple reme- 2, Proper diet. It would be ridicu 

disease are championing this new dies. lous in the physical realm to sup 

approach. They have become How are you doing on them pose that we could eat only once 

excited about several natural reme- physically? You may want to check week, or only at Christmas am 

dies, which someone described this yourself and see. Easter! But the Bible talks of thl 

way: But the interesting thing is that importance of eating and bein: 

these eight simple remedies have nourished spiritually through corn 

The best six doctors anywhere, their counterpart spiritually. Four munion with Christ (see John 6). 

And no one can deny it, are the cause of spiritual health, and Eating is a private thing. No on! 

Are sunshine, water, rest, and air, four are the result. Let’s look at the can eat for another. And the idea 

Exercise, and diet. causes: that the preacher is supposed to feet 

1. Pure air. We understand the us once a week is a little off base. I 

These six will gladly be your friends value of this in the physical we depend on that, we will dif 

If only you are willing. 

realm-and even though some of spiritually. The most importan 

Your ills they’ll mend, your cares the people in Los Angeles have a thing a preacher can do is to encour 

they’ll tend, 

problem on that one, the last I heard, age the people to feed themselves! 

And charge you not a shilling. 

they were still breathing! But what How have you been doing OI 

about the spiritual realm ? What feeding yourself? Are you gettin: 

That verse was obviously written does air represent? Lamentations the daily spiritual food you need 

by someone across the pond! But 3:55,56, “I called upon thy name, 0 Family worship won’t suffice-n 

those who advocate preventive Lord, . . . thou hast heard my voice: one can eat for another. How mucl 

medicine have added two other hide not thine ear at my breathing, at time are you spending day by day ii 

natural remedies to the six in the my cry.” personal feeding on God’s Word? 

poem-temperance, or self-control, Prayer is the breath of the soul. I 3. Exercise. Paul tells us, “Bu 

and trust in divine power. list this one first, because if you try refuse profane and old wives’ fables 

It’s tragic how many people in our to live without breathing, physi- and exercise thyself rather unto 

world today are hooked on the tally or spiritually, you’ll die godliness. For bodily exercise prof 

- 

iteth little: but godliness is profit 

able unto all things” (1 Tim. 4:7, 8: 

So here exercise for the purpose o 

godliness is shown to be essen 

tial-not just invited, but corn 

manded. 

What is exercise, spiritual11 

speaking? It is the Christian’s wit 

ness, service, outreach, effort fo 

others. Some people flaunt thei 

exercise physically: Thev do thei 

jogging down Main Streetinstead o 

along the country lanes! And soml 

people flaunt their spiritual exe1 

cise. 

Regardless of how strong a persol 

“non-habit-forming” drugs, pills, quickly, A1lll IL 13 

might be in breathing and eating 

and tranquilizers, and who are Christian, sitting on a church pew, physically or spiritually, withou 

overlooking the natural remedies. I to be dying spiritually for want of proper exercise, he’s going to die. 1 

have presumed to hang out my pure air. 

will take a bit longer than if he trie 

shingle on occasion and go into the Well, you say, we’re supposed to to go without breathing, or withou 

practice of preventive medicine by have pure air-and who has pure eating, but the result is sure in th 

asking those who tell me of their prayer? At best our prayers fall far end. And if we refuse to exercism 

complaints how they are doing on short. But we can be thankful for spiritually, we will lose whateve 

the eight natural remedies-sun- Romans 8:26, which tellsus that the strength we may have had at on 

shine, water, rest, air, exercise, diet, Holy Spirit translates our prayers so time. This is why many people il 

temperance. and trust in divine that they are beautiful and accept- the church are dead spiritually 

power. able to God. God has big forces at They have made no deliberat 

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170

attempt to become involved in outreach 

and service for others. Exercise 

makes you thirsty, which brings 

us to the last of the four causes of 

spiritual life. 

r good behavior doesn’t make 

4, water. “In the last day, that 

us Christians-only our relationship 

with Jesus Christ. 

great day of the feast, Jesus stood 

and cried, saying, If any man thirst, 

let him come~unto me, and drink. He 

that believeth on me, as the scripture 

hath said, out of his belly shall 

flow rivers of living water, [But this 

spake he of the Spirit, which they 

that believe on him should receive)” 

(John 7:37-39). So we come to Christ Now for the four natural remedies that labour and are heavy laden, and 

for the livingwater, the Holy Spirit, that in spiritual life are more in the I will give you rest” (Matt. 11:28). 

and then the Holy Spirit takes our realm of results, 

Rest from what? From stress, from 

service and works through us to take 5. Temperance-or self-control. worrying about whether we will 

the living water to others. Galatians 5:X, 23 lists the fruit of make it to heaven, from trying to 

Maybe you say, “But I don’t want the Spirit-and fruit is a result! The produce our own righteousness. 

a personal, private life with God. I fruit is love, joy, peace, long-suffer- Rest from trying to control ourhave 

no desire for it. I understand ing, gentleness, goodness, faith, selves, as we rest in His control. Rest 

that it’s important, but I’m not meekness, and temperance. So tem- from worrying about our acceptance 

hungry for it, I’m not thirsty for it.” perance comes as a result of coming with God. Christ has promised rest 

This may be one of the major to Jesus day by day. It is not to all those who come to Him. 

reasons why only one out of four something we produce: it is a gift. 8. Trust in divine power. Faith is 

church members is spending any It’s possible to live your life as a not something you work on, not 

time at all alone with God day by professed Christian, and because something you work up. Trust is 

day. you have a strong backbone, fool faith, and faith is trust. And trust is a 

How do you get hungry and yourself into thinking your life is gift that comes as a result of know- 

- 

healthy, when 

dying spiritually. 

in reality you are 

Self-control is a 

ing Jesus, who is trustworthy. It 

comes as a result of making use of 

fruit; it comes from God, not from pure air, proper diet, exercise, and 

us. 

water-the spiritual facsimiles of 

And it is never our good behav- these causes of life and health. “For 

ior that makes us Christians---it is by grace are ye saved through faith: 

only and always our relationship and that not of yourselves: it is the 

with Jesus Christ. Christianity is a gift of God” [Eph. 2:8). 

matter of the heart, never a matter of The Bible invites us to examine 

outward actions. ourselves, whether we be in the 

6. Sunlight. Malachi 4:2 talks faith. How are you doing today on 

about the Sun of righteousness who the eight simple agencies for spiriarises 

with healing in His wings. tual life? 

The Sun of Righteousness! Jesus is Let’s not walk around in poor 

the brilliant example of righteous- health, either physically or spirithirsty? 

One way is through exerness 

in the universe. When we tually. Accept the invitation to 

realize that we are bankrupt of come to Jesus-tomorrow morning, 

cise. Salt also makes us thirsty, and righteousness, that our only hope of and the morning after, and the one 

salt has been used in Scriptures as a righteousness comes from Jesus, we after that, until Jesus comes again. 

symbol of the righteousness of will go to Him for the healing that Accept His invitation to dwell upon 

Christ. When you see the righteous- He offers. Jesus is the light that the things of the gospel, upon His 

ness of Christ uplifted, in His Word lights every man who comes into the righteousness, upon His life and 

or in the life of another Christian, it world (John 19). He said, “I am the death for us. They will bring spirican 

make you thirsty. Heat makes light of the world (John 8:12). And tual health and life; they are the best 

you thirsty too. Jesus is the Sun of all of our righteousness comes as a preventive medicine for sick souls. 

Righteousness, and when you come result of accepting His righteousinto 

His presence, you will get ness. 

Morris L. Venden is postor of the 

hungry and thirsty as a result. 7. Rest. “Come unto me, all ye Keene SDA church, Keene, Texas. 

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171

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-1 

_- -- 

e 

The Bible and Spirit of Pr 

Among these valuable messages is the book, “Ministry of Either numerical order of presentation can be used with these 

Healing,” with its more than 500 pages of detailed counsel. tracts. But in the process of preparing them, this writer noted 

Here is what we are told about this book: 

w a sequence somewhat different than that of the “Ministry of 

E 

“The messages in these books [“Ministry of Healing" 

Healing,” 127 order-that appears to better fit the actual 

and “Christ’s Object Lessons”] contain the light that God has 

5 revealed to me to give to the world.“-9 Tesrimo)lies, page 77. 

coverage and content of these tracts. Here is how it all looks: 

0 “The book “Ministry of Healing”. . contains the wisdom 

(The prefixed numbers indicate the original “Ministry of Heal. 

0 of the Great Physician.“- 9 Tesrimorries, page 71. ing,” page 127 sequence.) 

The .first six chapters of “Ministry of Healing” graphi- OUR - THE MlNISTR r THE 

tally portray rhe methods used by Jesus in His healing minis- SUGGESTED OF HEALING NEWSTA R T 

try while on this earth. The remaining seven sections of the 

ARRANGEMENT 127 SEQUENCE 

book explain a wide range of simple remedies. In many res- 1 AIR 1 AIR 6 NUTRITION (DIET) 

pects, chapter eight is a key chapter in the book, Carefully 2 SUNLIGHT 2 SUNLlGliT 5 EXERCISE 

read pages 125-131 (in the regular clothbound edition) [pages 5 EXERCISE 3 ABSTEMIOUSNESS 7 WATER 

87-93 in our large-print paperback edition]. Here you will find 4 REST 4 REST 2 SUNLIGHT 

the true definition of sickness, the remedies that do not cure 6 DIET 5 EXERCISE 3 TEMPERANCE 

disease, those that do, plus several other fundamental prin- 

(Abstemiousness) 

ciples. 3 ABSTEMIOUSNESS 6 DIET 1 AIR 

On page 127, paragraph 2, is to be found a summary of 7 WATER 7 WATER 4 REST 

the true remedies. These eight principles are often referred to 8 TRUST 8 TRUST 8 TRUST 

as the “Eight Laws of Health,” for, as we are told elsewhere You will notice that we have divided the above eight 

“God’s remedies are given to make us well and keep us well,” topical areas into four two’s. This is the pattern that this 

Here are the Eight Laws of Health: 

writer found that the material best falls into. (See the left- 

“Pure air, sunlight, abstemiousness, rest, exercise, proper hand column.) Let us look more closely at these four pairs: 

diet, the use of water, trust in divine power,-these are the true 

remedies. Every person should have a knowledge of nature’s PURE Al R begins the presentation, and closely connects 

remedial agencies and how to apply them. It is essential both with SUNLIGHT, which follows it. Both are closely associated 

to understand the principles involved in the treatment of the in the Spirit of Prophecy writings. 

sick and to have a practical training that will enable one rightly The next two are EXERCISE and REST. These are obto 

use this knowledge.“- Mittisrry of Healing, page 12 7. vious contrasting remedies. Exercise makes for better rest; rest 

It has been the personal belief of this writer for many enables us to exercise better. 

years that, as within the Ten Commandments are to be found 

Then comes PROPER DIET and ABSTEMIOUSNESS. 

all of the moral principles that govern mankind, so within the These two points are quite complementary. ABSTEMIOUS- 

Eight Laws of Health are to be found the primary health prin- NESS brings in many points that fill out essential areas of 

ciples that mankind must obey in order to have and maintain PROPER DIET. But, of course, Abstemiousness includes far 

optimum physical well-being. 

more than merely diet. 

Over the years, a number of written productions have 

The final couplet is composed of THE USE OF WAbeen 

issued, attempting to provide some of what is included TER and TRUST IN DIVINE POWER. The Use of Water 

under the heading of each of these eight principles of health. could just as well have been placed by itself before Diet and 

We are thankful for each of them. 

Abstemiousness. But to preserve the four two’s, we have put it 

It has, for many years, been the hope of the present wti- here with Trust. (But there would be a genuine value in placing 

ter that he might someday attempt to summarize as many of Water just before Diet and Abstemiousness, for this would 

the basic factors underlying each of these Eight Laws in a set help instill more confidence in the material before presenting 

of inexpensive papers that can be widely circulated. 

them with Diet and Abstemiousness, which contain the most 

I am thankful to beableto tell you that these eight tracts difficult points in the entire series for the average hearers to 

have just been completed and are now available for widespread 

distribution. When you see them for yourself, you will realize 

accept.) 

Here now is a tract-by-tract introduction to what is to 

the wide coverage of basic principles that is to be found with- be found in this new set of tracts covering the Eight Laws of 

in each of them. Although consisting of only eight sheets of Health: 

paper, yet it took several weeks of work to write them. Our set of eight tracts will be numbered in accordance 

Both individual laymen and health institutions will value with the order given in “Ministry of Healing,” page 127, so 

the comprehensiveness of these tracts. At the end of each one that you can use them in that or any other sequence that You 

is tO be found space for you to rubber stamp your own name may prefer. 

and address. (Below that, in small print, is to be found our 

Here now is a tract-by-tract introduction to what is to 

own address.) 

be found in this new set of tracts covering the Eight Laws of 

As most of YOU know, several years ago the “Newstart” Health: 

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THE AIR YOU BREATHE [HE-5Bl]-This and the includes a brief summarization of five basic types of simple 

eighth tract (Trust) are the only ones of the eight that alter- water treatments. The third page provides a wealth of Spirit of 

nate Spirit of prophecy quotations with other material in the Prophecy quotations on water and its various uses, and then, 

body of the tract. On this sheet, we tried to integrate every on the last page, two complete sample water treatments from 

basic area of Spirit of Prophecy concern on this helpful topic. auf Water Therapy Manual are reprinted, to provide further 

THE SUNLIGHT ON YOUR BODY [HE-5021-As introduction to this invaluable method of caring for the sick. 

mentioned already, Spirit of Prophecy comments tend to unite YOUR TRUST IN GOD [HE-5081 -Every sequence of 

sunlight and air. In this, the second tract that we prepared, it eight-law presentation places this topic last. In reality, of 

seemed best to switch over to giving the basic data and, in a course, it isactually the first. We are directed to present health 

separate box, cite the key Spirit of Prophecy statements on topics as the “entering wedge.” So with this in mind, the 

the topic. You will be surprised at the powerful relationship of Eighth Law is generally not presented first. But, in certain 

sunlight to your health. On page 4, information is provided on situations, you might wish to present it earlier in the series. 

how to safely take sunbaths. 

Yet it is still highly beneficial presented last-for then you 

THE EXERCISE YOU RECEIVE [HE-5051 -The value have a perfect transition to Bible studies. For this final tract, 

of exercise is one of the few widely acclaimed health laws in it seemed well to summarize several major chapters in the 

our day. In fact, it has become something of a fad. In this tract book, “Ministry of Healing.” Summaries of pages 17-l 08, and 

the reader will find solid information along with physiological 451-466 are given, interspersed with direct quotations. In the 

data, plus a complete exercise program that will fit into any box on the third page will be found several quotations from 

age group. 

pages 241-247 that deal directly with the power of the will, 

THE REST YOUR BODY NEEDS [HE-504]-This is mental attitudes, and trust in God in relation to health and 

the complementary topic to Exercise. They really go together. healing. This final tract essentially comprises a working manual 

Few people value the importance of proper rest, and because on how to come to God and live with Him. As such, it conof 

this try to solve the lack with exercise, special foods, or tains a most powerful spiritual presentation. 

some current health gimmick. Yet Rest is one of the most It is our prayer that this Eight Law of Health material 

powerful healing agencies known to mankind. 

may be used of God to bring many to the kingdom. May it 

THE FOOD YOU EAT [HE-506]-The question here also be a help to many of God’s people, They are important to 

was what information to give. Aside from the third (Abste- Him and they need to maintain the best of health, for they 

miousness) and the eighth (Trust), none of the other eight laws have an important work to do in ministering to the needs of 

has as much written material available on it. All that is current- others. -vf 

ly known about diet would fill a thousand massive volumes, 

yet a quantity of that information is either too technical or 

not correct. Recognizing that you will have your own favorite 

dietetic literature on hand,this writer decided to do something 

different: In this tract we have summarized nearly every health 

principle given in the book, “Counsels on Diet and Foods”! 

Surely, the information and emphasesupplied by the author 

of that volume ought to be timeless in value and solid in worth. 

This summary includes pages 15-113, 131-182, 309-370, and 

419437. The boxed quotations present a good introduction to 

pages 373405. 

THE POWER OF ABSTEMIOUSNESS [HE-5831 -In 

the “Newstart” program, Proper Diet is titled “Nutrition,” and 

Abstemiousness is called “Temperance,” which has a similar 

meaning. This topical area designates things we should have 

nothing to do with, and things we should use in moderation. 

Thus, Abstemiousness is wide-ranging in its coverage. (Especially 

when we recall that we live in the “chemical age.“) This 

tract includes many of the negatives (the “no, no’s”) of Diet, 

but also a number of other cautions and dangers. On the first 

two pages of this tract we have listed many different worthwhile 

areas of concern, and then on the remainder of the tract 

is to be found many invaluable Spirit of Prophecy quotations 

about the importance of obedience to the laws of health, plus 

related issues. 

THE WATER THAT CLEANSES [HE-5071 -As mentioned 

earlier, this, the Seventh Law, could be effectively presented 

either before or after Diet and Abstemiousness. In this 

tract you will first find important information on water taken 

into the body (both pure and chemicaled), and then, following 

a section on bathing, an introduction to water treatments. This 

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~~~~~ PHYSICIANS IS AN EN0 TluES NEWSLETfER COYktlNtNi3 TRUE HEALTH 

‘PR,NC,PLES WITH 000-S LAST. LOVINQ, WARNINO TO THE WORLD. 

.TilNTlARV 

Dear Readers: Because you are a subscriber to our health magazine, God*& 

Physicians would like to wish you a successful and happy 1993. Each of 

tam would like to say a word to you! Chaplain/Clergyman Tom Kopko 

1 qq? 

"I am more beneficial 

to the sick than meditine 

and far more essential 

to them than 

food. Greedy manufacturers 

. keep me rrom 

gettin! J to you so you 

have tc 2 use more 

.. 

oxygen 

therapies tnan 

just breathing me. 

May 1993 be your best 

year Eor good health," . 

"Please, friends, let the 

world know that I do not 

give people skin cancer, 

I can really save people's 

lives and just because it 

'is raining/storming does 

not mean I am not shinnins 

above the gloomy clouds. - 

May 1993 be the year that 

we became healing friends," 

"X~Y name is long and 

me but another 

me is SplG-m~-t~-l 

Tempera] 

name 

m 

“CAY a11u LSLCZIVS 

only the good is what I 

am all about. Fasting 

is my game, maybe 1993 

will be the year you 

took control of your 

life! Happy New 1993. 

How I wish sick people woulda- 

dopt me, for burning the can- * 

dle at both ends leads 

to 

burn out. Then they 

come to 

me and I cannot 

do a whole 

lot to help them. Maybe they 

should learn to keep the Sabbath 

as a day of rest...why 

that's me. Have a good year 

folks and remember me, rest." 

P 

6 

"Before I wish you the best 

"If you don't exercise you for 1993, Mr. Stomach a fridon't 

get the full benefit end of yours asked me to go 

of Your proper diet, and easy on him with. the fried, 

Your blood does not circu- greasy and fatty foods. Mrs. 

late quickly. I too am Heart also asks you to be 

more beneficial than medi- careful with your diet in 

tine and will‘help with 1993. Try to eat regularily 

your digestion'if you use and slowly masticate your 

me, Do me every day and fresh fruit, vegetables, nuts, 

1993 Will give you health- seeds, sprouts and grains and 

ful vigor and strength." 

1993 will be your : best year yet-" 

8 

X(UUin 

"Pure Air and Exercise said 

they are more important toyou 

than your medicine and I want 

to say the same thing, Treatments 

done with me have helped 

millions recover when medicine 

only made them sicker. You 

are 70% water, that's me, and. 

you,need plenty of me in order 

to stay well. Have a good year!" 

"Without pride or boast...1 must 

say. 'Without me, it is impossible 

to have abundant healtheven if you 

obey the advice of the other physicians.' 

When YOU combine me with 

your will/choice, there is nothing 

you cannot attain in 1993 and your 

future will always be bright." 

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