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Monday, December 22, 2014
Hospitals or Sanitariums
“Years ago message after [the] message was given, pointing out that the Sanitarium in Battle Creek was too large,” Ellen White wrote, “that plants should be made in different places, that memorials should
be established in many places, so that the light of present truth might shine forth.” (Testimonies to the Church Regarding our Youth Going to Battle Creek To Obtain An Education, page 26, emphasis
supplied).
"I have been instructed that in building so large a sanitarium in Battle Creek, men have followed their own devising. They have not been led by the Lord, but have done directly contrary to the light that He has given. I write these words in order that the example that has been set in Battle Creek shall not be followed in other places; for it is not in accordance with God’s plan. Instead of so large an institution being built in one place, plants should have been made in many cities in which there is nothing to represent the truth."
Ellen G. White, Testimonies for the Church Containing Letters to Instruction to Seventh-day Adventists,
page 23. (emphasis supplied). [it is mine]
Notice the important points. (1) “I have been instructed.” (2) “Men have followed their own devising.” (3) “They have not been led by the Lord, but have done directly contrary to the light that He has given.” (4) “The example that has been set in Battle Creek shall not be followed in other places; for it is
not in accordance with God’s plan.” (5) “Instead of so large an institution being built in one place, plants should have been made in many cities.” (6) And the most important point of all is that Adventists were to build “sanitariums,” not hospitals, and these sanitariums were to be built in many places – not “to better serve the community,” as has been often stated, but “to represent the truth.”
“It is not the Lord’s will for His people to erect a mammoth sanitarium in Battle Creek or in any other place,” Ellen White stated. “In many places in America, sanitariums are to be established.
These sanitariums are not to be large institutions, but are to be of sufficient size to enable the work to be carried forward successfully.” (Battle Creek Letters, page 48, emphasis supplied).
Just how large was the Battle Creek Sanitarium? How did the size of that institution compare to modern Seventh-day Adventist hospitals? Let us note the evidence and compare the results.
Battle Creek Sanitarium
“Late in the spring of 1877 construction began on a four-story brick veneer building 136 feet in length. . . ,” the SDA Encyclopedia states. “By the end of the century the sanitarium employed more than 900 workers, not only to provide health care, but also to operate the farms that supplied produce, milk, and eggs for the patients.” (Seventh-day Adventist Encyclopedia, Second Revised Edition, Art. “Battle Creek Sanitarium,” emphasis supplied).
White Memorial Medical Center
“With approximately 1,600 employees, 200 volunteers, and 450 physicians representing all major
medical specialties, White Memorial Medical Center provides a full range of inpatient,
outpatient, and home-care services,” the SDA Encyclopedia states. “It has grown into a fullservice hospital encompassing nine city blocks.” (ibid., Seventh-day Adventist Encyclopedia, Second Revised Edition, Art. “White Memorial Medical Center”).
Notice that when Adventist “sanitariums” moved into the large cities and became “hospitals,” there was no longer a need to employ personnel “to operate the farms that supplied produce,milk, and eggs for the patients.” Why? Because with hospitals located in large cities there was no longer “farms that supplied produce, milk, and eggs for the patients.” Now the Adventist Health Systems must provide food from commercial markets of the world, filled with toxic chemicals and preservatives. Was this God’s plan for last-day health reform?
Note carefully the following contrast between the number of employees and size of the two institutions, keeping in mind that the counsel from our Lord was “pointing out that the Sanitarium
in Battle Creek was too large.”
Size Battle Creek White Memorial
Four-story building Nine city blocks
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136 feet in length.
Personnel Battle Creek White Memorial
900 employees 1,600 employees
including farm 200 volunteers
workers 450 physicians
Total 900 2,250
Disregarding the Testimonies
“I have been instructed that in building so large a sanitarium in Battle Creek, men have followed
their own devising,” Ellen White wrote. “They have not been led by the Lord, but have done directly contrary to the light that He has given.” (Testimonies for the Church Containing Letters to Instruction to Seventh-day Adventists, page 23, emphasis supplied).
Battle Creek Sanitarium Before and After the Fire
The 900 Battle Creek employees included personnel to operate the farms. In addition to the 1,600 employees at White Memorial are “200 volunteers, and 450 physicians,” a grand total of 2,250 workers. These additional workers and physicians represent “all major medical specialties.”
White Memorial employs 1,350 more personnel than did Battle Creek Sanitarium at the turn of the century! Even the much larger five story, 550 by 500 feet, Battle Creek Sanitarium, constructed by Dr. Kellogg after the fire, was tiny in comparison to the nine city blocks of the White Memorial Hospital.
“But when the building was actually put under construction,” the SDA Encyclopedia states, “it became apparent that Dr. Kellogg had proceeded independently and had ordered an elaborately equipped building five stories in height and 550 feet in length, with extensions aggregating another 500 feet on the sides. . ..” (ibid., SDA Encyclopedia, Art. “Battle Creek Sanitarium”).
This new Battle Creek Sanitarium, “five stories in height and 550 feet in length, with extensions aggregating another 500 feet on the sides,” proposed by John Harvey Kellogg was not the Sanitarium Ellen White stated was “too large.” The testimony she gave was that the previous Battle Creek Sanitarium was too large. That was the reason why the angels burned the former institution to the ground. Yet, this new, larger sanitarium proposed by Kellogg was tiny in comparison to contemporary Seventh-day Adventist medical institutions.
Disregarding the Testimonies Then
“When the Lord swept the large Sanitarium out of the way at Battle Creek, He did not design that it should ever be built there again,” the SDA Encyclopedia quotes Ellen White. “But in their blindness men went ahead and rebuilt the institution where it now stands.” (ibid., Seventh-day Adventist Encyclopedia, Second Revised Edition, Art. “Battle Creek Sanitarium;” op. sit.,
Testimonies to the Church, Regarding our Youth Going to Battle Creek To Obtain An Education,
page 26).
Disregarding the Testimonies Now
This testimony plainly states that the Lord did not design that the Battle Creek Sanitarium “should ever be built there again. But in their blindness men went ahead and rebuilt the
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institution where it now stands.” Yet after quoting this clear testimony, SDA Church leadership “in their blindness,” now owns and operates “the institution where it now stands.” Note carefully the following documented evidence:
“On Oct. 1, 1974—for the first time in its 108 years of service—the Battle Creek Sanitarium Hospital’s constituency voted to come under the ownership of the SDA Church,” the SDA Encyclopedia states. “Thus, this institution, which was the forerunner of the medical work of Seventh-day Adventists, became the church’s 394th medical facility.” (ibid., Seventh-day Adventist Encyclopedia, Second Revised Edition, Art. “Battle Creek Sanitarium,” emphasis supplied).
This statement is not completely correct. “This institution” was not “the forerunner of the medical work of Seventh-day Adventists.” This was the institution rebuilt by John Harvey Kellogg. The institution that was “the forerunner of the medical work of Seventh-day Adventists,” was burned to the ground Tuesday morning, February 18, 1902.
Loma Linda University Hospital
How does the Loma Linda University Hospital compare in size to the Battle Creek Sanitarium’s four story building, 136 feet in length, and 900 “workers?” Let us examine the facts as stated by the Seventh-day Adventist Encyclopedia.
“The construction of a new 500-bed medical center, including a research wing, made this
consolidation possible. . . ,” the SDA Encyclopedia states. “In addition, affiliations with other medical institutions in the vicinity of Loma Linda have been utilized.” (ibid., SDA Encyclopedia, Art. “Loma Linda University Hospital”).
“In late 1962. . .they launched plans to erect a new, larger hospital-medical center complex. . . ,” the SDA Encyclopedia states. “Actual construction of the nine-story structure, with two levels underground, was begun soon after formal groundbreaking ceremonies on June 6, 1964. In July 1967 it was completed and occupied.” (ibid., SDA Encyclopedia, Art. “Loma Linda University
Hospital”).
“Loma Linda University Medical Center is staffed by 4,500 employees. . . ,” the SDA Encyclopedia states. “In 1993 the medical center was licensed for more than 700 beds.” (ibid., SDA Encyclopedia, Art. “Loma Linda University Hospital”).
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“After negotiations the clinic located on the [Norton Air Force] base was donated to Loma Linda, along with a lot of clinic equipment,” the SDA Encyclopedia states. “The Social Action Community Health System (SACHS) is centered in the 42,300 square feet (4,000 square meters) of clinic space.” (ibid., SDA Encyclopedia, Art. “Loma Linda University Hospital”).
Battle Creek and Loma Linda Compared
Size Battle Creek Loma Linda Medical Center
Four-story structure Nine-story structure,
136 feet in length two levels underground
700 beds
Personnel Battle Creek Loma Linda University Medical Center
900 employees 4,500 employees
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workers
Total 900 4,500
Disregarding the Testimonies
“It is not the Lord’s will for His people to erect a mammoth sanitarium in Battle Creek or in any other place. . . ,” Ellen White wrote. “These sanitariums are not to be large institutions. . ..” (ibid., Battle Creek Letters, page 48, emphasis supplied).
Other current Adventist hospitals, such as Glendale Adventist Medical Center, Porter Memorial(Denver, Colorado), Portland (Oregon) Adventist Hospital, Hinsdale Hospital (Chicago,Illinois), and Kettering Medical Center (Ohio), to name a few, are many times larger than the Battle Creek Sanatarium which Ellen White strongly condemned. The Seventh-day Adventist movement was not to be drawn into competition with Protestant and Roman Catholic large city hospital systems. The counsel was that Adventists were to establish many smaller Sanitariums in the country, utilizing hydrotherapy and other methods of natural healing. Patients would come to these small Sanitariums and stay several weeks, rather than in and out overnight. They would learn how to eat properly and care for their bodies, but more important, they would be taught the three angel’s messages.
Over one hundred and fifty years have passed since the Lord gave this people special messages on health and natural healing. The world is just now learning the values of alternative medicine.
We as a people have failed miserably in educating the world to these methods of healing. We have been duped into investing time and millions of dollars in the world’s method of healing.
Why? Because billions and billions can be realized in the modern hospital systems. What has been the result? Adventist medical facilities are on the verge of bankruptcy. Why else would the Adventist Health Systems merge with those of the Papacy? (See, Judith Graham, “Hospital Alliance Explored,” Denver Post, January 13, 1995).
Large Medical Centers Not God’s Will
“I write these words in order that the example that has been set in Battle Creek shall not be followed in other places,” Ellen White counseled, “for it is not in accordance with God’s plan.”
(ibid., Testimonies for the Church Containing Letters to Instruction to Seventh-day Adventists, page 23, emphasis supplied).
“It is not the Lord’s will for His people to erect a mammoth sanitarium in Battle Creek or in any other place.” (ibid., Battle Creek Letters, p. 48, emphasis supplied).
Sanitariums Established Out Of the Cities
Ellen White received much light from heaven that Seventh-day Adventist institutions should be established out of the cities. Indeed, the following testimony was titled, “No Large Business Firms in the Cities.”
“God has sent warning after warning that our schools and publishing houses and sanitariums are to be established out of the city, in places where the youth may be taught most effectively what is truth,” Ellen White wrote. “Let no one attempt to use the Testimonies to vindicate the establishment of large business interests in the cities. Do not make of no effect the light that has been given upon this subject.” (The Publishing Ministry, page 185, emphasis supplied.
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Disregarding the Testimonies By Establishing In the Cities White Memorial Medical Center “is located at 1720 Cesar E. Chavez Avenue in Los Angeles,
California.”
The hospital encompasses “nine city blocks in East Los Angeles, one of the fastest growing inner-city communities in the United States.” (ibid., SDA Encyclopedia, emphasis supplied).
Glendale Adventist Medical Center is “situated on a 32-acre tract in Glendale, California.” (ibid.,
SDA Encyclopedia, Art. “Glendale Adventist Medical Center”).
“Porter Memorial Hospital is, “An acute general 368-bed hospital located at 2525 South
Downing Street, Denver, Colorado.” (ibid., SDA Encyclopedia, emphasis supplied).
“Portland Adventist Medical Center “is located in Portland, Oregon’s east side, at 10123 SE. Market Street, just off Interstate 205 and close to Interstate 84,” so states the SDA Encyclopedia.
“More than 1.5 million people live in the metropolitan area.” (ibid., SDA Encyclopedia, emphasis supplied).
E. G. White Could Not Approve Plans For Building In Los Angeles
The following testimony was titled, “Could not Approve Plans for Building in Los Angeles.” An Ellen G. White Estate “Note” at the beginning of this statement declared that the “Statement[was] made by E. G. White, September 15, 1902, at a council meeting called in Los Angeles to consider plans for the erection of a building on Hill Street to be used for restaurant and sanitarium work.” (Manuscript Releases, Vol. 1, page 248, emphasis supplied).
The Seventh-day Adventist Encyclopedia stated that the White Memorial Medical Center is “an institution that began as a clinic that opened in a rented store building at 941 East First Street on Sept. 29, 1913.” This was eleven years after Ellen White’s objection to a health food “restaurant and sanitarium work” established in the city of Los Angeles.
Why would Ellen White object to such a fine project? Because she knew from the counsel she had received that in time this project in the heart of Los Angeles would grow “into a full-service hospital encompassing nine city blocks in East Los Angeles, one of the fastest-growing inner-city communities in the United States.” (ibid.,
SDA Encyclopedia, emphasis supplied).
Do Not Establish A Sanitarium In Cities
“With the light that I have had in regard to sanitariums where the sick are to be treated I cannot give one word of counsel about huddling in the city [Los Angeles]. . . ,” Ellen White stated. “I could not do it, because it has been so distinctly laid before me that when a sanitarium is built, it must be located where it can accomplish the end in view--the object for which it is established.”
(ibid., Manuscript Releases, Vol. 1, page 248, emphasis supplied).
Disregarding the Testimonies By Building In the City Of Los Angeles
“White Memorial Medical Center. . .is located at 1720 Cesar E. Chavez Avenue in Los Angeles, California. . .encompassing nine city blocks in East Los Angeles.” (ibid., SDA Encyclopedia).
Justifying Policy By Naming the Institution After Ellen White
Ellen White was against establishing a sanitarium (what would she say about a hospital?) in Los Angeles. SDA Church leadership disregarded her testimony and established one there. Three years after her death they named the institution after her.
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“On the afternoon of Apr. 21, 1918, the clinic’s name was changed to White Memorial Hospital, and was formally dedicated in memory of Ellen G. White.” (ibid., SDA Encyclopedia, emphasis supplied).
Repercussion Of Disregarding the Testimonies
In 1984 a surgical team at Loma Linda University Medical Center transplanted a baboon heart into an infant child. The operation was followed closely by the media around the world, and became quickly known as “the Baby Fae Case.” The infant did not live. The funeral was held at the Loma Linda University Church. A Roman Catholic Priest presided at the service.
Immediately following the service, people released helium-filled balloons into the air in the front of the church. The news media cameras followed the rise of the balloons as if they were the infant’s soul or spirit rising toward heaven.
On November 10, 1984, the Los Angeles Times reported in the religion section, “Adventists See No Conflict Of Belief In Baby Fae Case.” The following are a few heretical excerpts from that
article:
“Transplanting a baboon’s heart into the body of an infant human in a medical center run by the Seventh-day Adventist Church may seem an oddity for a denomination that teaches creationism and recommends vegetarianism.” John Dart, Times Religion Writer reported. (Los Angeles Times, Saturday, November 10, 1984, Part II, emphasis supplied).
“But a range of church members say that there is no religious conflict or discomfort in their minds about the Oct. 26 operation on Baby Fae by Adventist surgeon Dr. Leonard Bailey at Loma Linda University Medical Center,” Dart added further. “Rather, they say, the cherishing of life is an overriding view in their health-conscious church.” (ibid., LA Times, 11/10/84, emphasis supplied).
“Cherishing of Life” in their “health-conscious church?” One only has to review the documents of “Project Whitecoat,” the joint United States Army/Seventh-day Adventist Church germ warfare experiments, to see that this statement is a total contradiction. (See, Martin D. Turner,
“Project Whitecoat,” Spectrum, Summer, 1970).[Also see article on my blog: "The White Coat Project"].
“Contrary to evolutionary theory, a literal reading of the Creation in the Bible makes animals and humans unrelated,” Dart stated. “But the creationist tradition seemed to present no religious basis for objection, and in fact, Adventist scholars who were interviewed said that evolutionary theory today is winning more adherents among church members– particularly scientists and intellectuals.”
(ibid., LA Times, 11/10/84, emphasis supplied).
“Human inventions, called education, have been counter-working the infinite counsels of
Heaven,” Ellen White would say to contemporary Adventist scholars, scientists and intellectuals. “This is called higher education; but it is an insult to God.” (Manuscript Releases, Vol. 3, page 321, emphasis supplied).
John Dart quoted one Loma Linda professor as stating that “The amalgam of man and beast has proved to be no problem and perhaps testifies to long-standing, increasingly sophisticated approach to health and medicine in Adventism since its founding in the mid-19th century.”(ibid., LA Times, 11/10/84, emphasis supplied).
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[contemporary] Adventism” allows for young boys in the Church to become guinea pigs in the germ warfare experiments of Project Whitecoat. (See above). Such thinking on the part of SDA Church leadership is a travesty indeed. And to think that they would boldly express such heresy openly to one of the largest newspapers in America is astonishing to say the least.
“The guardians of the Adventist Church. . . are content with a morality of form without
substance,” Rose magazine stated, “one in which the arts of disease can be presented as the healing arts, and in which germ warfare can be embraced in pious obedience to divine injunction against death.” (Rose, pages 179, 180; op sit., Martin D. Turner, “Project Whitecoat,” Spectrum,
Summer, 1970, emphasis supplied).
“A creationism-vs-evolution debate has come into the open recently in the church,” the Loma Linda professor stated further to Times reporter John Dart, “an indication in one sense of how medical training could proceed on a pragmatic level while religious ideology remained in the hands of pastors and church theologians.” (ibid., LA Times, 11/10/84, emphasis supplied).
“I would say a majority of Adventist scientists would have difficulty accepting at face value the church’s traditional seven-day Creation occurring 6,000 years ago,” James Walters, Assistant Professor of Christian Ethics at Loma Linda University, told Times reporter John Dart. (ibid., LA Times, 11/10/84, emphasis supplied).
To comment on this statement would be redundant. A person who does not believe in the
seven-day creation week recorded in Scripture is not a Seventh-day Adventist. What in the world do they think the words Seventh-day Adventist mean? The name was chosen by pioneer Adventists to honor the seventh day Sabbath and the Lord of all creation – that the Lord created the earth in six days and rested on the seventh. (Genesis 2:1-3). At this point it is obvious that the Professors of contemporary Adventist colleges and universities no longer believe in the Spirit of Prophecy. Could it be that they also no longer believe in Scripture?
“Man’s learning may be considered supreme, but it is not that higher education which he can take with him into the kingdom of heaven,” Ellen White comments. “The learned men of the world, notwithstanding all their intellectual studies, know not the truth as it is in Jesus.” (Advent Review and Sabbath Herald, July 18, 1899, emphasis supplied).
“In his epistle to the Ephesians,” Ellen White added further, “Paul brings to view a kind of education which these supposed intellectual stars have not.” (ibid., R&H, 7/18/99 [Ephesians 1:3-6 quoted.].
“For the first time in [Adventist] history, a whole generation of scholars with doctorates from secular universities became active in church institutions,” Edward Lugenbeal wrote. “Probing, open to change, skeptical of tradition, imbued with the valued and culture of higher education, this new breed of `progressive’ Adventist intellectual soon began to reevaluate Adventist traditions.” (op sit., John Dart, LA Times, 11/10/84, emphasis supplied).
“There will be an effort made on the part of many pretended friends of education to divorce religion from the sciences, in our schools,” Ellen White stated. “They would spare no pains or expense to impart secular knowledge; but they would not mingle with it a knowledge of what God has revealed as constituting perfection of character. . . .” (Christian Education, page 113, emphasis supplied).
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What more needs to be said dear reader. Are SDA institutions following the Divine plan?
“Years ago message after [the] message was given, pointing out that the Sanitarium in Battle Creek was too large,” Ellen White wrote, “that plants should be made in different places, that memorials should
be established in many places, so that the light of present truth might shine forth.” (Testimonies to the Church Regarding our Youth Going to Battle Creek To Obtain An Education, page 26, emphasis
supplied).
"I have been instructed that in building so large a sanitarium in Battle Creek, men have followed their own devising. They have not been led by the Lord, but have done directly contrary to the light that He has given. I write these words in order that the example that has been set in Battle Creek shall not be followed in other places; for it is not in accordance with God’s plan. Instead of so large an institution being built in one place, plants should have been made in many cities in which there is nothing to represent the truth."
Ellen G. White, Testimonies for the Church Containing Letters to Instruction to Seventh-day Adventists,
page 23. (emphasis supplied). [it is mine]
Notice the important points. (1) “I have been instructed.” (2) “Men have followed their own devising.” (3) “They have not been led by the Lord, but have done directly contrary to the light that He has given.” (4) “The example that has been set in Battle Creek shall not be followed in other places; for it is
not in accordance with God’s plan.” (5) “Instead of so large an institution being built in one place, plants should have been made in many cities.” (6) And the most important point of all is that Adventists were to build “sanitariums,” not hospitals, and these sanitariums were to be built in many places – not “to better serve the community,” as has been often stated, but “to represent the truth.”
“It is not the Lord’s will for His people to erect a mammoth sanitarium in Battle Creek or in any other place,” Ellen White stated. “In many places in America, sanitariums are to be established.
These sanitariums are not to be large institutions, but are to be of sufficient size to enable the work to be carried forward successfully.” (Battle Creek Letters, page 48, emphasis supplied).
Just how large was the Battle Creek Sanitarium? How did the size of that institution compare to modern Seventh-day Adventist hospitals? Let us note the evidence and compare the results.
Battle Creek Sanitarium
“Late in the spring of 1877 construction began on a four-story brick veneer building 136 feet in length. . . ,” the SDA Encyclopedia states. “By the end of the century the sanitarium employed more than 900 workers, not only to provide health care, but also to operate the farms that supplied produce, milk, and eggs for the patients.” (Seventh-day Adventist Encyclopedia, Second Revised Edition, Art. “Battle Creek Sanitarium,” emphasis supplied).
White Memorial Medical Center
“With approximately 1,600 employees, 200 volunteers, and 450 physicians representing all major
medical specialties, White Memorial Medical Center provides a full range of inpatient,
outpatient, and home-care services,” the SDA Encyclopedia states. “It has grown into a fullservice hospital encompassing nine city blocks.” (ibid., Seventh-day Adventist Encyclopedia, Second Revised Edition, Art. “White Memorial Medical Center”).
Notice that when Adventist “sanitariums” moved into the large cities and became “hospitals,” there was no longer a need to employ personnel “to operate the farms that supplied produce,milk, and eggs for the patients.” Why? Because with hospitals located in large cities there was no longer “farms that supplied produce, milk, and eggs for the patients.” Now the Adventist Health Systems must provide food from commercial markets of the world, filled with toxic chemicals and preservatives. Was this God’s plan for last-day health reform?
Note carefully the following contrast between the number of employees and size of the two institutions, keeping in mind that the counsel from our Lord was “pointing out that the Sanitarium
in Battle Creek was too large.”
Size Battle Creek White Memorial
Four-story building Nine city blocks
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136 feet in length.
Personnel Battle Creek White Memorial
900 employees 1,600 employees
including farm 200 volunteers
workers 450 physicians
Total 900 2,250
Disregarding the Testimonies
“I have been instructed that in building so large a sanitarium in Battle Creek, men have followed
their own devising,” Ellen White wrote. “They have not been led by the Lord, but have done directly contrary to the light that He has given.” (Testimonies for the Church Containing Letters to Instruction to Seventh-day Adventists, page 23, emphasis supplied).
Battle Creek Sanitarium Before and After the Fire
The 900 Battle Creek employees included personnel to operate the farms. In addition to the 1,600 employees at White Memorial are “200 volunteers, and 450 physicians,” a grand total of 2,250 workers. These additional workers and physicians represent “all major medical specialties.”
White Memorial employs 1,350 more personnel than did Battle Creek Sanitarium at the turn of the century! Even the much larger five story, 550 by 500 feet, Battle Creek Sanitarium, constructed by Dr. Kellogg after the fire, was tiny in comparison to the nine city blocks of the White Memorial Hospital.
“But when the building was actually put under construction,” the SDA Encyclopedia states, “it became apparent that Dr. Kellogg had proceeded independently and had ordered an elaborately equipped building five stories in height and 550 feet in length, with extensions aggregating another 500 feet on the sides. . ..” (ibid., SDA Encyclopedia, Art. “Battle Creek Sanitarium”).
This new Battle Creek Sanitarium, “five stories in height and 550 feet in length, with extensions aggregating another 500 feet on the sides,” proposed by John Harvey Kellogg was not the Sanitarium Ellen White stated was “too large.” The testimony she gave was that the previous Battle Creek Sanitarium was too large. That was the reason why the angels burned the former institution to the ground. Yet, this new, larger sanitarium proposed by Kellogg was tiny in comparison to contemporary Seventh-day Adventist medical institutions.
Disregarding the Testimonies Then
“When the Lord swept the large Sanitarium out of the way at Battle Creek, He did not design that it should ever be built there again,” the SDA Encyclopedia quotes Ellen White. “But in their blindness men went ahead and rebuilt the institution where it now stands.” (ibid., Seventh-day Adventist Encyclopedia, Second Revised Edition, Art. “Battle Creek Sanitarium;” op. sit.,
Testimonies to the Church, Regarding our Youth Going to Battle Creek To Obtain An Education,
page 26).
Disregarding the Testimonies Now
This testimony plainly states that the Lord did not design that the Battle Creek Sanitarium “should ever be built there again. But in their blindness men went ahead and rebuilt the
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institution where it now stands.” Yet after quoting this clear testimony, SDA Church leadership “in their blindness,” now owns and operates “the institution where it now stands.” Note carefully the following documented evidence:
“On Oct. 1, 1974—for the first time in its 108 years of service—the Battle Creek Sanitarium Hospital’s constituency voted to come under the ownership of the SDA Church,” the SDA Encyclopedia states. “Thus, this institution, which was the forerunner of the medical work of Seventh-day Adventists, became the church’s 394th medical facility.” (ibid., Seventh-day Adventist Encyclopedia, Second Revised Edition, Art. “Battle Creek Sanitarium,” emphasis supplied).
This statement is not completely correct. “This institution” was not “the forerunner of the medical work of Seventh-day Adventists.” This was the institution rebuilt by John Harvey Kellogg. The institution that was “the forerunner of the medical work of Seventh-day Adventists,” was burned to the ground Tuesday morning, February 18, 1902.
Loma Linda University Hospital
How does the Loma Linda University Hospital compare in size to the Battle Creek Sanitarium’s four story building, 136 feet in length, and 900 “workers?” Let us examine the facts as stated by the Seventh-day Adventist Encyclopedia.
“The construction of a new 500-bed medical center, including a research wing, made this
consolidation possible. . . ,” the SDA Encyclopedia states. “In addition, affiliations with other medical institutions in the vicinity of Loma Linda have been utilized.” (ibid., SDA Encyclopedia, Art. “Loma Linda University Hospital”).
“In late 1962. . .they launched plans to erect a new, larger hospital-medical center complex. . . ,” the SDA Encyclopedia states. “Actual construction of the nine-story structure, with two levels underground, was begun soon after formal groundbreaking ceremonies on June 6, 1964. In July 1967 it was completed and occupied.” (ibid., SDA Encyclopedia, Art. “Loma Linda University
Hospital”).
“Loma Linda University Medical Center is staffed by 4,500 employees. . . ,” the SDA Encyclopedia states. “In 1993 the medical center was licensed for more than 700 beds.” (ibid., SDA Encyclopedia, Art. “Loma Linda University Hospital”).
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“After negotiations the clinic located on the [Norton Air Force] base was donated to Loma Linda, along with a lot of clinic equipment,” the SDA Encyclopedia states. “The Social Action Community Health System (SACHS) is centered in the 42,300 square feet (4,000 square meters) of clinic space.” (ibid., SDA Encyclopedia, Art. “Loma Linda University Hospital”).
Battle Creek and Loma Linda Compared
Size Battle Creek Loma Linda Medical Center
Four-story structure Nine-story structure,
136 feet in length two levels underground
700 beds
Personnel Battle Creek Loma Linda University Medical Center
900 employees 4,500 employees
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Total 900 4,500
Disregarding the Testimonies
“It is not the Lord’s will for His people to erect a mammoth sanitarium in Battle Creek or in any other place. . . ,” Ellen White wrote. “These sanitariums are not to be large institutions. . ..” (ibid., Battle Creek Letters, page 48, emphasis supplied).
Other current Adventist hospitals, such as Glendale Adventist Medical Center, Porter Memorial(Denver, Colorado), Portland (Oregon) Adventist Hospital, Hinsdale Hospital (Chicago,Illinois), and Kettering Medical Center (Ohio), to name a few, are many times larger than the Battle Creek Sanatarium which Ellen White strongly condemned. The Seventh-day Adventist movement was not to be drawn into competition with Protestant and Roman Catholic large city hospital systems. The counsel was that Adventists were to establish many smaller Sanitariums in the country, utilizing hydrotherapy and other methods of natural healing. Patients would come to these small Sanitariums and stay several weeks, rather than in and out overnight. They would learn how to eat properly and care for their bodies, but more important, they would be taught the three angel’s messages.
Over one hundred and fifty years have passed since the Lord gave this people special messages on health and natural healing. The world is just now learning the values of alternative medicine.
We as a people have failed miserably in educating the world to these methods of healing. We have been duped into investing time and millions of dollars in the world’s method of healing.
Why? Because billions and billions can be realized in the modern hospital systems. What has been the result? Adventist medical facilities are on the verge of bankruptcy. Why else would the Adventist Health Systems merge with those of the Papacy? (See, Judith Graham, “Hospital Alliance Explored,” Denver Post, January 13, 1995).
Large Medical Centers Not God’s Will
“I write these words in order that the example that has been set in Battle Creek shall not be followed in other places,” Ellen White counseled, “for it is not in accordance with God’s plan.”
(ibid., Testimonies for the Church Containing Letters to Instruction to Seventh-day Adventists, page 23, emphasis supplied).
“It is not the Lord’s will for His people to erect a mammoth sanitarium in Battle Creek or in any other place.” (ibid., Battle Creek Letters, p. 48, emphasis supplied).
Sanitariums Established Out Of the Cities
Ellen White received much light from heaven that Seventh-day Adventist institutions should be established out of the cities. Indeed, the following testimony was titled, “No Large Business Firms in the Cities.”
“God has sent warning after warning that our schools and publishing houses and sanitariums are to be established out of the city, in places where the youth may be taught most effectively what is truth,” Ellen White wrote. “Let no one attempt to use the Testimonies to vindicate the establishment of large business interests in the cities. Do not make of no effect the light that has been given upon this subject.” (The Publishing Ministry, page 185, emphasis supplied.
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Disregarding the Testimonies By Establishing In the Cities White Memorial Medical Center “is located at 1720 Cesar E. Chavez Avenue in Los Angeles,
California.”
The hospital encompasses “nine city blocks in East Los Angeles, one of the fastest growing inner-city communities in the United States.” (ibid., SDA Encyclopedia, emphasis supplied).
Glendale Adventist Medical Center is “situated on a 32-acre tract in Glendale, California.” (ibid.,
SDA Encyclopedia, Art. “Glendale Adventist Medical Center”).
“Porter Memorial Hospital is, “An acute general 368-bed hospital located at 2525 South
Downing Street, Denver, Colorado.” (ibid., SDA Encyclopedia, emphasis supplied).
“Portland Adventist Medical Center “is located in Portland, Oregon’s east side, at 10123 SE. Market Street, just off Interstate 205 and close to Interstate 84,” so states the SDA Encyclopedia.
“More than 1.5 million people live in the metropolitan area.” (ibid., SDA Encyclopedia, emphasis supplied).
E. G. White Could Not Approve Plans For Building In Los Angeles
The following testimony was titled, “Could not Approve Plans for Building in Los Angeles.” An Ellen G. White Estate “Note” at the beginning of this statement declared that the “Statement[was] made by E. G. White, September 15, 1902, at a council meeting called in Los Angeles to consider plans for the erection of a building on Hill Street to be used for restaurant and sanitarium work.” (Manuscript Releases, Vol. 1, page 248, emphasis supplied).
The Seventh-day Adventist Encyclopedia stated that the White Memorial Medical Center is “an institution that began as a clinic that opened in a rented store building at 941 East First Street on Sept. 29, 1913.” This was eleven years after Ellen White’s objection to a health food “restaurant and sanitarium work” established in the city of Los Angeles.
Why would Ellen White object to such a fine project? Because she knew from the counsel she had received that in time this project in the heart of Los Angeles would grow “into a full-service hospital encompassing nine city blocks in East Los Angeles, one of the fastest-growing inner-city communities in the United States.” (ibid.,
SDA Encyclopedia, emphasis supplied).
Do Not Establish A Sanitarium In Cities
“With the light that I have had in regard to sanitariums where the sick are to be treated I cannot give one word of counsel about huddling in the city [Los Angeles]. . . ,” Ellen White stated. “I could not do it, because it has been so distinctly laid before me that when a sanitarium is built, it must be located where it can accomplish the end in view--the object for which it is established.”
(ibid., Manuscript Releases, Vol. 1, page 248, emphasis supplied).
Disregarding the Testimonies By Building In the City Of Los Angeles
“White Memorial Medical Center. . .is located at 1720 Cesar E. Chavez Avenue in Los Angeles, California. . .encompassing nine city blocks in East Los Angeles.” (ibid., SDA Encyclopedia).
Justifying Policy By Naming the Institution After Ellen White
Ellen White was against establishing a sanitarium (what would she say about a hospital?) in Los Angeles. SDA Church leadership disregarded her testimony and established one there. Three years after her death they named the institution after her.
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“On the afternoon of Apr. 21, 1918, the clinic’s name was changed to White Memorial Hospital, and was formally dedicated in memory of Ellen G. White.” (ibid., SDA Encyclopedia, emphasis supplied).
Repercussion Of Disregarding the Testimonies
In 1984 a surgical team at Loma Linda University Medical Center transplanted a baboon heart into an infant child. The operation was followed closely by the media around the world, and became quickly known as “the Baby Fae Case.” The infant did not live. The funeral was held at the Loma Linda University Church. A Roman Catholic Priest presided at the service.
Immediately following the service, people released helium-filled balloons into the air in the front of the church. The news media cameras followed the rise of the balloons as if they were the infant’s soul or spirit rising toward heaven.
On November 10, 1984, the Los Angeles Times reported in the religion section, “Adventists See No Conflict Of Belief In Baby Fae Case.” The following are a few heretical excerpts from that
article:
“Transplanting a baboon’s heart into the body of an infant human in a medical center run by the Seventh-day Adventist Church may seem an oddity for a denomination that teaches creationism and recommends vegetarianism.” John Dart, Times Religion Writer reported. (Los Angeles Times, Saturday, November 10, 1984, Part II, emphasis supplied).
“But a range of church members say that there is no religious conflict or discomfort in their minds about the Oct. 26 operation on Baby Fae by Adventist surgeon Dr. Leonard Bailey at Loma Linda University Medical Center,” Dart added further. “Rather, they say, the cherishing of life is an overriding view in their health-conscious church.” (ibid., LA Times, 11/10/84, emphasis supplied).
“Cherishing of Life” in their “health-conscious church?” One only has to review the documents of “Project Whitecoat,” the joint United States Army/Seventh-day Adventist Church germ warfare experiments, to see that this statement is a total contradiction. (See, Martin D. Turner,
“Project Whitecoat,” Spectrum, Summer, 1970).[Also see article on my blog: "The White Coat Project"].
“Contrary to evolutionary theory, a literal reading of the Creation in the Bible makes animals and humans unrelated,” Dart stated. “But the creationist tradition seemed to present no religious basis for objection, and in fact, Adventist scholars who were interviewed said that evolutionary theory today is winning more adherents among church members– particularly scientists and intellectuals.”
(ibid., LA Times, 11/10/84, emphasis supplied).
“Human inventions, called education, have been counter-working the infinite counsels of
Heaven,” Ellen White would say to contemporary Adventist scholars, scientists and intellectuals. “This is called higher education; but it is an insult to God.” (Manuscript Releases, Vol. 3, page 321, emphasis supplied).
John Dart quoted one Loma Linda professor as stating that “The amalgam of man and beast has proved to be no problem and perhaps testifies to long-standing, increasingly sophisticated approach to health and medicine in Adventism since its founding in the mid-19th century.”(ibid., LA Times, 11/10/84, emphasis supplied).
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[contemporary] Adventism” allows for young boys in the Church to become guinea pigs in the germ warfare experiments of Project Whitecoat. (See above). Such thinking on the part of SDA Church leadership is a travesty indeed. And to think that they would boldly express such heresy openly to one of the largest newspapers in America is astonishing to say the least.
“The guardians of the Adventist Church. . . are content with a morality of form without
substance,” Rose magazine stated, “one in which the arts of disease can be presented as the healing arts, and in which germ warfare can be embraced in pious obedience to divine injunction against death.” (Rose, pages 179, 180; op sit., Martin D. Turner, “Project Whitecoat,” Spectrum,
Summer, 1970, emphasis supplied).
“A creationism-vs-evolution debate has come into the open recently in the church,” the Loma Linda professor stated further to Times reporter John Dart, “an indication in one sense of how medical training could proceed on a pragmatic level while religious ideology remained in the hands of pastors and church theologians.” (ibid., LA Times, 11/10/84, emphasis supplied).
“I would say a majority of Adventist scientists would have difficulty accepting at face value the church’s traditional seven-day Creation occurring 6,000 years ago,” James Walters, Assistant Professor of Christian Ethics at Loma Linda University, told Times reporter John Dart. (ibid., LA Times, 11/10/84, emphasis supplied).
To comment on this statement would be redundant. A person who does not believe in the
seven-day creation week recorded in Scripture is not a Seventh-day Adventist. What in the world do they think the words Seventh-day Adventist mean? The name was chosen by pioneer Adventists to honor the seventh day Sabbath and the Lord of all creation – that the Lord created the earth in six days and rested on the seventh. (Genesis 2:1-3). At this point it is obvious that the Professors of contemporary Adventist colleges and universities no longer believe in the Spirit of Prophecy. Could it be that they also no longer believe in Scripture?
“Man’s learning may be considered supreme, but it is not that higher education which he can take with him into the kingdom of heaven,” Ellen White comments. “The learned men of the world, notwithstanding all their intellectual studies, know not the truth as it is in Jesus.” (Advent Review and Sabbath Herald, July 18, 1899, emphasis supplied).
“In his epistle to the Ephesians,” Ellen White added further, “Paul brings to view a kind of education which these supposed intellectual stars have not.” (ibid., R&H, 7/18/99 [Ephesians 1:3-6 quoted.].
“For the first time in [Adventist] history, a whole generation of scholars with doctorates from secular universities became active in church institutions,” Edward Lugenbeal wrote. “Probing, open to change, skeptical of tradition, imbued with the valued and culture of higher education, this new breed of `progressive’ Adventist intellectual soon began to reevaluate Adventist traditions.” (op sit., John Dart, LA Times, 11/10/84, emphasis supplied).
“There will be an effort made on the part of many pretended friends of education to divorce religion from the sciences, in our schools,” Ellen White stated. “They would spare no pains or expense to impart secular knowledge; but they would not mingle with it a knowledge of what God has revealed as constituting perfection of character. . . .” (Christian Education, page 113, emphasis supplied).
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What more needs to be said dear reader. Are SDA institutions following the Divine plan?
Wednesday, February 19, 2014
In the Beggining it was not so - Part 1
REMEMBER LOT'S WIFE
Jesus the Christ said: “ Remember Lot’s wife” Luke 17:32 Why did he say that? What is to be remembered about the women, who disobeyed the express command to not look back but flee to the mountains? The wife whose heart was filled with idolatry and the love of this world who turned into a statute of salt? The preceding verses may shad some light on the subject.
“And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man. They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all. Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded; But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all.
Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed. In that day, he which shall be upon the housetop, and his stuff in the house, let him not come down to take it away: and he that is in the field, let him likewise not return back.” Luke 17:27-31
The marriage institution is not a church tradition, or if it has become such, it is a rather new tradition. The marriage institution goes back several millennial even before the law of God – the 10 commandments were given to Israel at Mount Sinai. The fifth commandment says: “Honor your Father and Mother…” Exodus 20:12 It does not read: Honor your parents ( your Fathers or your Mothers – No Gay or lesbians marriages here) In fact it goes back another 2,000 years to Creation time, when God the Creator of all living things ordained, instituted and executed the first marriage ceremony between Adam – a man and Eve – a woman. He told them to be fruitful and multiply!
Homosexuals can’t even do that much, for they can not reproduce! And even if they could reproduce themselves in a laboratory some how, what would be the result of it? Would it be a normal human being? Would the parents love, train and discipline them as much as heterosexual parents do? I don’t think so.
Man kind is composed of male and female. They are not just different physiologically; they are different emotionally and mentally as well. They are meant to complement each other, to blend as they become one. One flesh, one in purpose, and to work united in solving the challenges of life!
The most important duty of a family is to raise children who will be morally stable, law abiding citizens. These children when they become adults, will go out, find a mate and marry, to reproduce themselves – “be fruitful and multiply”.
While living in Northern California many years ago, I plainly told a gay fellow worker that he could and should, like any other man marry and have children of his own. The real issue here, The issue at stake is, upholding the moral values instituted by a superior being – the Creator of mankind, who created male and female in his own image! They did not evolve from a mollusk or some inferior form of life. They were created in the image of the Divine!
Not only that. Men and women are rational beings who will be brought to a judgment by the Creator some day. To render an account of their moral values and what they have become as a result!
The immorality we see in the West – Western European countries, North America and some other affluent parts of the world, has to do with a condition like before the worldwide flood and like in the Valley of Sidim – Sodoma & Gomorra in Bible times. A sinful, immoral and degraded state of living, coming from: a life of ease, plenty and an abundance of leisure time.
Well did the Apostle Paul stated in his epistle to the Romans: “
“http://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-kentucky-same-sex-marriage-20140212,0,6005147.story#axzz2tVTiqa3A
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/02/12/1277045/-Federal-judge-Kentucky-must-recognize-out-of-state-gay-marriages
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-politics/virginia-attorney-general-proud-after-gay-marriage-decision/2014/02/14/1d1638b4-957e-11e3-8461-8a24c7bf0653_story.html
Why remember Lot’s wife? Many are putting to risk the morals, godliness and even eternal life of their family for the sake of material gain and prosperity!
““The marriage of Lot, and his choice of Sodom for a home, were the first links in a chain of events fraught with evil to the world for many generations.” We are told to “remember Lot’s wife.” {PH140 42.2}
“Cities and even country towns are becoming like Sodom and Gomorrah, and like the world in the days of Noah. The training of the youth in those days was after the same order as the children are being educated and trained in this age.”—Special Testimonies on Education, 93. {PH140 42.3}
“Those who will take their families into the country, place them where they have fewer temptations.”—Special Testimonies on Education, 104. {PH140 42.4}
“Fathers and Mothers who possess a piece of land and a comfortable home are kings and queens.”—Special Testimonies on Education, 105.{PH140 43.1}
Locate your school in the country
“Let the students be out in the most healthful location that can be secured, to do the very work that should have been done years ago. Then there would not be such great discouragements. Had this been done, you would have had some grumbling from students, and many objections would have been raised by parents, but this all-around education would prepare children and youth not only for practical work in various trades, but would fit them for the Lord’s farm in the earth made new. If all in America had encouraged the work in agricultural lines that principals and teachers have discouraged, the schools would have had altogether a different showing. There is room within earth’s vast boundaries for schools to be located where ground can be cleared, land cultivated, and where a proper education can be given. This work is essential for an all-round education, and one which is favorable to spiritual advancement. Nature’s voice is the voice of Jesus Christ, teaching us innumerable lessons of perseverance. The mountains and the hills are changing, the earth is waxing old like a garment, but the blessing of God, which spreads a table for his people in the wilderness, will never cease.”—P.C. September 24, 1898. {PH140 43.2}
“No pains should be spared to select places for our schools where the moral atmosphere will be as healthful as possible, for the influences that prevail will leave a deep impress on young and forming characters. For this reason a retired locality is best. The great cities, the centers of business and learning, may seem to present some advantages, but these advantages are outweighed by other considerations.”—Special Testimonies on Education, 43. {PH140 43.3}
“If people would encourage the church in which they are members to establish small, humble school buildings in which to do service for God, they would accommodate their own children within their borders.”—P.C. February 2, 1895. {PH140 44.1}
“Teachers should be employed to educate the children of Sabbath-keepers. This would close the door to a large number who are drifting into the Battle Creek, the very place of God has warned them not to go.”—P.C. December 15, 1897. {PH140 44.2}
Sunday, November 24, 2013
PHYSIOLOGY AND ANATOMY - Part 01
PHYSIOLOGY and ANATOMY - Part 01 of 07
[This blog is designed for SDA...believers as an educational / informational blog to those families who are planning on being among the 144.000 group, during "END TIMES"! We shall review Bible and Spirit of Propesy principles extensively, and their application for the 21 Century].
THIS IS WHAT JEHOVAH GOD HAS REVEALED - Consels to Parents!
"Parents should seek to awaken in their children an interest in the study of physiology. Youth need to be instructed in regard to their own bodies. There are but few among the young who have any definite knowledge of the mysteries of life. The study of the wonderful human organism, the relation and dependence of all its complicated parts, is one in which most mothers take little if any interest. They do not understand the influence of the body upon the mind, or of the mind upon the body. They occupy themselves with needless trifles, and then plead that they have no time to obtain the information which they need in order to care properly for the health of their children. It is less trouble to trust them to the doctors. Thousands of children die through ignorance of the laws of their being." Christian Temperance and Bible hygeine, {CTBH 70.3}
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"Parents should seek to awaken in their children an interest in the study of physiology. From the first dawn of reason the human mind should become intelligent in regard to the physical structure. We may behold and admire the work of God in the natural world, but the human habitation is the most wonderful. It is therefore of the highest importance that among the studies selected for children,physiology occupy an important place. All children should study it. And then parents should see to it that practical hygiene is added." Counsels to teachers, {CT 125.2}
Children are to be trained to understand that every organ of the body and every faculty of the mind is the gift of a good and wise God, and that each is to be used to His glory. Right habits in eating and drinking and dressing must be insisted upon. Wrong habits render the youth less susceptible to Bible instruction. The children are to be guarded against the indulgence of appetite, and especially against the use of stimulants and narcotics. The tables of Christian parents should not be loaded down with food containing condiments and spices." IBID, {CT 125.3}
"There are but few among the young who have any definite knowledge of the mysteries of life. The study of the wonderful human organism, the relation and dependence of all its complicated parts, is one in which most mothers take little if any interest. They do not understand the influence of the body upon the mind or of the mind upon the body. They occupy themselves with needless trifles and then plead that they have no time to obtain the information which they need in order to care properly for the health of their children. It is less trouble to trust them to the doctors. Thousands of children die through the ignorance of their parents regarding the laws of hygiene." IBID, {CT 126.1}
"If parents themselves would obtain knowledge upon this subject and feel the importance of putting it to a practical use, we should see a better condition of things. Teach your children to reason from cause to effect. Show them that if they violate the laws of their being they must pay the penalty in suffering. If you cannot see as rapid improvement as you desire, do not be discouraged, but instruct them patiently and press on until victory is gained. Recklessness in regard to bodily health tends to recklessness in morals." IBID, {CT 126.2}
"Do not neglect to teach your children how to prepare wholesome food. In giving them these lessons in physiology and in good cooking, you are teaching them the first steps in some of the most useful branches of education and inculcating principles which are needful elements in their religious life." IBID, {CT 127.1}
"Teach your children from the cradle to practice self-denial and self-control. Teach them to enjoy the beauties of nature, and in useful employment to exercise all the powers of mind and body. Bring them up to have sound constitutions and good morals, to have sunny dispositions and sweet tempers. Teach them that to yield to temptation is weak and wicked; to resist is noble and manly." IBID, {CT 127.2}
"Parents should seek to awaken in their children an interest in the study of physiology. Youth need to be instructed in regard to their own bodies. There are but few among the young who have any definite knowledge of the mysteries of life. The study of the wonderful human organism, the relation and dependence of all its complicated parts, is one in which most mothers take little if any interest. They do not understand the influence of the body upon the mind, or of the mind upon the body. They occupy themselves with needless trifles, and then plead that they have no time to obtain the information which they need in order to care properly for the health of their children. It is less trouble to trust them to the doctors. Thousands of children die through ignorance of the laws of their being." Christian Education, {CE 173.1} [This statement repeats the initial paragraph. That is okay, since we are so slow to understand the truths contained in it and forget so easealy!]
"If parents themselves would obtain knowledge upon this subject, and feel the importance of putting it to a practical use, we should see a better condition of things. Teach your children to reason from cause to effect. Show them that if they violate the laws of their being, they must pay the penalty by suffering. If you cannot see as rapid improvement as you desire, do not be discouraged, but instruct them patiently, and press on until victory is gained. Continue to teach them in regard to their own bodies, and how to take care of them. Recklessness in regard to bodily health tends to recklessness in morals." IBID, {CE 173.2}
"Do not neglect to teach your children how to prepare healthful food. In giving them these lessons in physiology and in good cooking, you are giving them the first steps in some of the most useful branches of education, and inculcating principles which are needful elements in a religious education." IBID, {CE 174.1}
"All the lessons of which I have spoken in this article are needed. If properly heeded, they will be like a bulwark that will preserve our children from the evils which are flooding the world. We want temperance at our tables. We want houses where the God-given sunlight and the pure air of heaven are welcomed. We want a cheerful, happy influence in our homes. We must cultivate useful habits in our children, and must instruct them in the things of God. It costs something to do all this. It costs prayers and tears, and patient, oft-repeated instruction. We are sometimes put to our wit’s end to know what to do; but we can take the children to God in our prayers, pleading that they may be kept from evil, praying, “Now, Lord, do thy work; soften and subdue the hearts of our children,” and he will hear us. He hearkens to the prayers of the weeping, careworn mothers. When Christ was on earth, the burdened mothers brought their children to him; they thought that if he would lay his hands upon them, they would have better courage to bring them up as they ought to go. The Saviour knew why these mothers came to him with their little ones, and he rebuked the disciples, who would have kept them away, saying, “Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not; for of such is the kingdom of God.” [Mark 10:14.] Jesus loves the little ones, and he is watching to see how parents are doing their work." IBID, {CE 174.2}
"Iniquity abounds on every hand, and if the children are saved, earnest, persevering effort must be put forth. Christ has said, “I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified.” [John 17:19.] He wanted his disciples to be sanctified, and he made himself their example, that they might follow him. What if fathers and mothers should take this same position, saying, “I want my children to have steadfast principles, and I will give them an example of this in my life”? Let the mother think no sacrifice too great, if made for the salvation of her household. Remember, Jesus gave his life for the purpose of rescuing you and yours from ruin. You will have his sympathy and help in this blessed work, and will be a laborer together with God." IBID, {CE 175.1}
"In whatever else we may fail, let us be thorough in the work for our children. If they go forth from the home training, pure and virtuous, if they fill the least and lowest place in God’s great plan of good for the world, our life-work can never be called a failure.—Christian Temperance and Bible Hygiene, 60-72." IBID, {CE 175.2}
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"Factual Knowledge Is Not Sufficient—The student of physiology should be taught that the object of his study is not merely to gain a knowledge of facts and principles. This alone will prove of little benefit. He may understand the importance of ventilation, his room may be supplied with pure air; but unless he fills his lungs properly he will suffer the results of imperfect respiration. So the necessity of cleanliness may be understood, and needful facilities may be supplied; but all will be without avail unless put to use. The great requisite in teaching these principles is to impress the pupil[students] with their importance, so that he will conscientiously put them in practice." Child Guidance, {CG 362.4}
"Knowledge of Nature’s Laws Is Necessary—There are matters not usually included in the study of physiology that should be considered—matters of far greater value to the student than are many of the technicalities commonly taught under this head. As the foundation principle of all education in these lines, the youth should be taught that the laws of nature are the laws of God—as truly divine as are the precepts of the Decalogue. The laws that govern our physical organism, God has written upon every nerve, muscle, and fiber of the body. Every careless and willful violation of these laws is a sin against our Creator. How necessary, then, that a thorough knowledge of these laws should be imparted!" IBID, {CG 363.1}
"Regularity in Eating and Sleeping—The importance of regularity in the time for eating and sleeping should not be overlooked. Since the work of building up the body takes place during the hours of rest, it is essential, especially in youth, that sleep should be regular and abundant." IBID, {CG 363.2}
In regulating the hours for sleep, there should be no haphazard work. Students should not form the habit of burning the midnight oil and taking the hours of the day for sleep. If they have been accustomed to doing this at home, they should correct the habit, going to bed at a seasonable hour. They will then rise in the morning refreshed for the duties of the day." IBID, {CG 363.3}
"Insist on Right Health Habits—Right habits of eating and drinking and dressing must be insisted upon. Wrong habits render the youth less susceptible to Bible instruction. The children are to be guarded against the indulgence of appetite, and especially against the use of stimulants and narcotics. The tables of Christian parents should not be loaded down with food containing condiments and spices." IBID, {CG 364.1}[This statement repeats the initial paragraph. That is okay, since we are so slow to understand the truths contained in it and forget so easealy!]
"We are not to indulge in any habit that will weaken physical or mental strength, or abuse our powers in any way. We are to do all in our power to keep ourselves in health, in order that we may have sweetness of disposition, a clear mind, and be able to distinguish between the sacred and the common, and honor God in our bodies and in our spirits, which are His." IBID, {CG 364.2}
"Importance of Correct Posture—Among the first things to be aimed at should be a correct position, both in sitting and in standing. God made man upright, and He desires him to possess not only the physical but the mental and moral benefit, the grace and dignity and self-possession, the courage and self-reliance, which an erect bearing so greatly tends to promote. Let the teacher give instruction on this point by example and by precept. Show what a correct position is, and insist that it shall be maintained." IBID, {CG 364.3}
"Respiration and Vocal Culture—Next in importance to right position are respiration and vocal culture. The one who sits and stands erect is more likely than others to breathe properly. But the teacher should impress upon his pupils the importance of deep breathing. Show how the healthy action of the respiratory organs, assisting the circulation of the blood, invigorates the whole system, excites the appetite, promotes digestion, and induces sound, sweet sleep, thus not only refreshing the body, but soothing and tranquilizing the mind. And while the importance of deep breathing is shown, the practice should be insisted upon. Let exercises be given which will promote this, and see that the habit becomes established...." IBID, {CG 364.4}
"The training of the voice has an important place in physical culture, since it tends to expand and strengthen the lungs, and thus to ward off disease. To ensure correct delivery in reading and speaking, see that the abdominal muscles have full play in breathing, and that the respiratory organs are unrestricted. Let the strain come on the muscles of the abdomen rather than on those of the throat. Great weariness and serious disease of the throat and lungs may thus be prevented. Careful attention should be given to securing distinct articulation, smooth, well-modulated tones, and a not-too-rapid delivery. This will not only promote health, but will add greatly to the agreeableness and efficiency of the student’s work." IBID, {CG 365.1}
"Three Essentials for Family Happiness—In the study of hygiene the earnest teacher will improve every opportunity to show the necessity of perfect cleanliness both in personal habits and in all one’s surroundings. The value of the daily bath in promoting health and in stimulating mental action should be emphasized. Attention should be given also to sunlight and ventilation, the hygiene of the sleeping room and the kitchen. Teach the pupils that a healthful sleeping room, a thoroughly clean kitchen, and a tastefully arranged, wholesomely supplied table will go farther toward securing the happiness of the family and the regard of every sensible visitor than any amount of expensive furnishing in the drawing room. That “the life is more than meat, and the body is more than raiment” (Luke 12:23) is a lesson no less needed now than when given by the divine Teacher eighteen hundred years ago." IBID, {CG 365.2}
"Seek to Understand Nature’s Remedies—Pure air, sunlight, abstemiousness, rest, exercise, proper diet, the use of water, trust in divine power—these are the true remedies. Every person should have a knowledge of nature’s remedial agencies and how to apply them. It is essential both to understand the principles involved in the treatment of the sick and to have a practical training that will enable one rightly to use this knowledge." IBID, {CG 366.1}
"The use of natural remedies requires an amount of care and effort that many are not willing to give. Nature’s process of healing and upbuilding is gradual, and to the impatient it seems slow. The surrender of hurtful indulgences requires sacrifice. But in the end it will be found that nature, untrammeled, does her work wisely and well. Those who persevere in obedience to her laws will reap the reward in health of body and health of mind." IBID, {CG 366.2}
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"In the study of physiology, pupils[students] should be led to see the value of physical energy and how it can be so preserved and developed as to contribute in the highest degree to success in life’s great struggle. EDUCATION, {Ed 196.1}
"Children should be early taught, in simple, easy lessons, the rudiments of physiology and hygiene. The work should be begun by the mother in the home and should be faithfully carried forward in the school. As the pupils advance in years, instruction in this line should be continued until they are qualified to care for the house they live in. They should understand the importance of guarding against disease by preserving the vigor of every organ and should also be taught how to deal with common diseases and accidents. Every school should give instruction in both physiology and hygiene, and, so far as possible, should be provided with facilities for illustrating the structure, use, and care of the body." IBID, {Ed 196.2}
"There are matters not usually included in the study of physiology that should be considered—matters of far greater value to the student than are many of the technicalities commonly taught under this head. As the foundation principle of all education in these lines, the youth should be taught that the laws of nature are the laws of God—as truly divine as are the precepts of the Decalogue. The laws that govern our physical organism, God has written upon every nerve, muscle, and fiber of the body. Every careless or willful violation of these laws is a sin against our Creator." IBID, {Ed 196.3}[This statement repeats the initial paragraph. That is okay, since we are so slow to understand the truths contained in it and forget so easealy!]
"How necessary, then, that a thorough knowledge of these laws should be imparted! The principles of hygiene as applied to diet, exercise, the care of children, the treatment of the sick, and many like matters, should be given much more attention than they ordinarily receive." IBID, {Ed 197.1}
"The influence of the mind on the body, as well as of the body on the mind, should be emphasized. The electric power of the brain, promoted by mental activity, vitalizes the whole system, and is thus an invaluable aid in resisting disease. This should be made plain. The power of the will and the importance of self-control, both in the preservation and in the recovery of health, the depressing and even ruinous effect of anger, discontent, selfishness, or impurity, and, on the other hand, the marvelous life-giving power to be found in cheerfulness, unselfishness, gratitude, should also be shown." IBID, {Ed 197.2}
"There is a physiological truth—truth that we need to consider—in the scripture, “A merry [rejoicing] heart doeth good like a medicine.” Proverbs 17:22. {Ed 197.3}
“Let thine heart keep My commandments,” God says; “for length of days, and years of life, and peace, shall they add to thee.” “They are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh.” “Pleasant words” the Scriptures declare to be not only “sweet to the soul,” but “health to the bones.”Proverbs 3:1, 2, margin; 4:22; 16:24. IBID, {Ed 197.4}
"The youth need to understand the deep truth underlying the Bible statement that with God “is the fountain of life.” Psalm 36:9. Not only is He the originator of all, but He is the life of everything that lives. It is His life that we receive in the sunshine, in the pure, sweet air, in the food which builds up our bodies and sustains our strength. It is by His life that we exist, hour by hour, moment by moment. Except as perverted by sin, all His gifts tend to life, to health and joy. {Ed 197.5}
“He hath made everything beautiful in its time” (Ecclesiastes 3:11, R.V.); and true beauty will be secured, not in marring God’s work, but in coming into harmony with the laws of Him who created all things, and who finds pleasure in their beauty and perfection." IBID, {Ed 198.1}
"As the mechanism of the body is studied, attention should be directed to its wonderful adaptation of means to ends, the harmonious action and dependence of the various organs. As the interest of the student is thus awakened, and he is led to see the importance of physical culture, much can be done by the teacher to secure proper development and right habits." IBID, {Ed 198.2}
"Among the first things to be aimed at should be a correct position, both in sitting and in standing. God made man upright, and He desires him to possess not only the physical but the mental and moral benefit, the grace and dignity and self-possession, the courage and self-reliance, which an erect bearing so greatly tends to promote. Let the teacher give instruction on this point by example and by precept. Show what a correct position is, and insist that it shall be maintained." IBID, {Ed 198.3}
" Next in importance to right position are respiration and vocal culture. The one who sits and stands erect is more likely than others to breathe properly. But the teacher should impress upon his pupils the importance of deep breathing. Show how the healthy action of the respiratory organs, assisting the circulation of the blood, invigorates the whole system, excites the appetite, promotes digestion, and induces sound, sweet sleep, thus not only refreshing the body, but soothing and tranquilizing the mind. And while the importance of deep breathing is shown, the practice should be insisted upon. Let exercises be given which will promote this, and see that the habit becomes established." IBID, {Ed 198.4}
"The training of the voice has an important place in physical culture, since it tends to expand and strengthen the lungs, and thus to ward off disease. To ensure correct delivery in reading and speaking, see that the abdominal muscles have full play in breathing and that the respiratory organs are unrestricted. Let the strain come on the muscles of the abdomen rather than on those of the throat. Great weariness and serious disease of the throat and lungs may thus be prevented. Careful attention should be given to securing distinct articulation, smooth, well-modulated tones, and a not-too-rapid delivery. This will not only promote health, but will add greatly to the agreeableness and efficiency of the student’s work." IBID, {Ed 199.1}[This statement repeats the initial paragraph. That is okay, since we are so slow to understand the truths contained in it and forget so easealy!]
"In teaching these things a golden opportunity is afforded for showing the folly and wickedness of tight lacing and every other practice that restricts vital action. An almost endless train of disease results from unhealthful modes of dress, and careful instruction on this point should be given. Impress upon the pupils[students] the danger of allowing the clothing to weigh on the hips or to compress any organ of the body. The dress should be so arranged that a full respiration can be taken and the arms be raised above the head without difficulty. The cramping of the lungs not only prevents their development, but hinders the processes of digestion and circulation, and thus weakens the whole body. All such practices lessen both physical and mental power, thus hindering the student’s advancement and often preventing his success." IBID, {Ed 199.2}
"In the study of hygiene the earnest teacher will improve every opportunity to show the necessity of perfect cleanliness both in personal habits and in all one’s surroundings. The value of the daily bath in promoting health and in stimulating mental action, should be emphasized. Attention should be given also to sunlight and ventilation, the hygiene of the sleeping room and the kitchen. Teach the pupils that a healthful sleeping room, a thoroughly clean kitchen, and a tastefully arranged, wholesomely supplied table, will go further toward securing the happiness of the family and the regard of every sensible visitor than any amount of expensive furnishing in the drawing room. That “the life is more than meat, and the body is more than raiment” (Luke 12:23), is a lesson no less needed now than when given by the divine Teacher eighteen hundred years ago." IBID, {Ed 200.1}[This statement repeats the initial paragraph. That is okay, since we are so slow to understand the truths contained in it and forget so easealy!]
"The student of physiology should be taught that the object of his study is not merely to gain a knowledge of facts and principles. This alone will prove of little benefit. He may understand the importance of ventilation, his room may be supplied with pure air; but unless he fills his lungs properly he will suffer the results of imperfect respiration. So the necessity of cleanliness may be understood, and needful facilities may be supplied; but all will be without avail unless put to use. The great requisite in teaching these principles is to impress the pupil[children] with their importance so that he will conscientiously put them in practice." IBID, {Ed 200.2}
"By a most beautiful and impressive figure, God’s word shows the regard He places upon our physical organism and the responsibility resting on us to preserve it in the best condition: “Know ye not that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which ye have from God? and ye are not your own.” “If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.” 1 Corinthians 6:19, R.V., margin;3:17. IBID, {Ed 200.3}
"Let pupils[children] be impressed with the thought that the body is a temple in which God desires to dwell, that it must be kept pure, the abiding place of high and noble thoughts. As in the study of physiologythey see that they are indeed “fearfully and wonderfully made” (Psalm 139:14), they will be inspired with reverence. Instead of marring God’s handiwork, they will have an ambition to make all that is possible of themselves, in order to fulfill the Creator’s glorious plan. Thus they will come to regard obedience to the laws of health, not as a matter of sacrifice or self-denial, but as it really is, an inestimable privilege and blessing." IBID, {Ed 201.1}
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