Study Guide: Story of Our Health
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"It was at the house of Brother A.
Hilliard, at Otsego, Michigan, June 6, 1863, that the great subject of health
reform was opened before me in vision."-- Review and Herald, October
8, 1867
Prepared under the auspices of the
Ellen G. White Estate and the General Conference Department of Health.
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Copyright 1976 by
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The Ellen G. White
Estate, Inc.
"We do not profess to be pioneers
in the general principles of the health reform. The facts on which this movement
is based have been elaborated, in a great measure, by reformers, physicians,
and writers on physiology and hygiene, and so may be found scattered through
the land. But we do claim that by the method of God's choice it has been more
clearly and powerfully unfolded, and is thereby producing an effect which we
could not have looked for from any other means.
"As mere physiological and hygienic
truths, they might be studied by some at their leisure, and by others laid aside
as of little consequence; but when placed on a level with the great truths of
the third angel's message by the sanction and authority of God's Spirit, and
so declared to be the means whereby a weak people may be made strong to overcome,
and our diseased bodies cleansed and fitted for translation, then it comes to
us as an essential part of present truth, to be received with the blessing of
God, or rejected at our peril."--J. H. Waggoner, Review and Herald, August
7, 1866
LESSON ONE--HEALTH REFORM AMONG
NON-ADVENTISTS
Reading assignment: pages 13-59
"THE TIMES OF THIS IGNORANCE"
(13-27)
1. At the turn of the nineteenth
century George Washington was treated not by a physician, but by a __________________
in his final illness. (13)
2. What was Washington's last request?
(13)
3. What were six drugs in
common use as medications in 1858? (17)
4. Trace the development of a cure
for fevers. (18, 19)
5. __________________ was recommended
for disease of the lungs (22)
6. Name four foods used by many in
the 1840s to "sharpen the appetite." (24)
7. Briefly review the experiences
of J. N. Loughborough and J. N. Andrews regarding their diet prior to health
reform. (24-26)
"MOVEMENTS TOWARD THERAPEUTIC
REFORM" (28-37)
1. In the late eighteenth century
what did Dr. William Wright discover regarding the treatment of typhus fever?
(28-30)
2. The Austrian peasant __________________
early in the nineteenth century treated illness with ____________________________________.
(31, 32)
3. In the twenty years (1843-1863)
before Mrs. White had her most comprehensive health reform vision, more than
__________________ books were written in America and Europe on the subject of
hydrotherapy. (33)
4. Two American physicians who were
among the "water cure" pioneers were __________________ and __________________.
(33, 34)
5. What ten substances or
instrumentalities did Dr. Jackson use in his treatment of patients? (34)
6. Dr. Jackson's adopted daughter
__________________ associated with him at a water cure establishment at __________________
New York, and helped to edit a monthly magazine __________________. (34)
7. According to the Water Cure
Journal, at least __________________ hydropathic institutions were operating
in the 1850s. (36)
8. An MD degree could be earned at
Dr. Trall's school in New Jersey in __________________ months. (36)
9. Dr. J. C. Jackson, along with
other health reformers, recognized the relationship between obedience to __________________
and __________________. (37)
"TEMPERANCE AND DIET REFORMS"
(38-49)
1. The drinking customs of society
received their first effectual rebuke from ______________________________, one
of the signers of the American Declaration of Independence in 1776. (38)
2. In 1814 an effective protest was
lodged against the use of intoxicating liquors at ________________________.
Soon after this a protest was lodged against a common practice of providing
intoxicants to ____________________________. (39)
3. What reform society was organized
in Boston in 1826? In less than a decade what results were they able to report?
(40, 41)
4. John Frank Newton, an early advocate
of vegetarianism, urged a person practicing it "not to lose his __________________
when assailed in arguments by his tenacious opponents with __________________
almost __________________. (43)
5. The Presbyterian minister ________________________________
began in 1832 to advocate a comprehensive system of healthful living. (45)
6. In 1850 the American ________________________
Society was organized with Dr. Alcott as president. (46)
7. According to J. C. Porter, writing
in 1862, what hygienic reforms were being accomplished by enlightened lecturers
and writers? (49)
"JOSEPH BATES, A HEALTH REFORMER"
(50-59)
1. In 1821 Bates resolved never again
to drink another glass of __________________. (53)
2. In 1823 what further advanced
step did he take? (53, 54)
3. On October 4, 1824, Bates made
a solemn covenant with God, a portion of which reads, "This day do I with the
utmost solemnity __________________ to Thee. I __________________ all former
lords that have had __________________ over me, and I __________________ to
Thee all that I am and all that I have." (54)
4. Immediately after his baptism
in 1827, into the __________________ Church, Bates began planning to organize
a ___________________________. (54, 55)
5. Later, as captain of his own ship,
what rules did he lay down for the sailors that were somewhat unusual for his
day? (56)
6. What circumstances led Bates to
give up the use of tea and coffee? (57)
7. In the year __________________
Captain Bates accepted the Advent message and in February, 1843, as he was looking
for the imminent return of Christ, what other changes did he make in his diet?
(58)
LESSON TWO--ADVENTISTS AND HEALTH
REFORM
Reading assignment: pages 60-96
"HEALTH REFORMS AMONG SEVENTH-DAY
ADVENTISTS" (60-74)
1. For what reasons did God delay
giving the health reform principles to Seventh-day Adventists? (61, 62)
2. Before there was clear evidence
that God required abstinence from swine's flesh, Ellen White wrote (1858), "If
it is the duty of the __________________ to __________________ from swine's
flesh, __________________ will __________________ it to more than two or three.
He will teach His __________________ their duty. God is leading out a __________________,
not a few separate individuals." (63)
3. In 1848, as first steps in reform,
Ellen White was shown that __________________, __________________ and __________________
were injurious to the health. (65)
4. In January 1854, Mrs. White urged
again that Christians "should lay aside such __________________ and __________________
things as tea and coffee." (70)
5. In 1854 she called for other reforms:
"I saw that God would not acknowledge an __________________, __________________
person as a Christian. . . . Deny the unhealthy appetite. Eat less __________________
food, eat __________________ food, free from __________________." (71)
6. James White saw health reform
as progressive: "When we had gained a good __________________ over these things
[tobacco, tea, and coffee] and when the Lord saw that we were able to __________________
it, light was given relative to __________________ and __________________."
(72)
7. In the winter of 1862-63, two
of James and Ellen White's children were stricken with __________________________.
Fortunately, the Whites read an article on the treatment of this disease by
Dr. __________________________ of Dansville, New York. This article was published
on Jan. 15, 1863, in the __________________ Chronicle. The doctor advised
the use of natural methods instead of drugs. (73)
8. Grateful for the help received,
James White published Dr. Jackson's article in the _____________________________
of Feb. 17, 1863, for the benefit of others suffering from diphtheria. (74)
"THE VISION AT OTSEGO, MICHIGAN"
(75-85)
1. Mrs. White wrote: "It was at the
house of Brother __________________ in Otsego, Michigan, June 6, 1863, that
the great subject of __________________ was opened before me in vision." This
was less than two weeks after the __________________ Conference was organized.
(76)
2. In this vision Mrs. White was
shown that "it was a __________________ to attend to our __________________,
and arouse others to their duty." (77) "It is not safe nor pleasing to God to
_________________ the __________________ of health and then ask Him to take
care of our __________________, and keep us from __________________ when we
are living directly contrary to our __________________." (78)
3. "The more __________________ our
health, the more perfect will be our __________________." (78)
4. Was Mrs. White the first one to
advocate the various principles of health reform?
How does J. H. Waggoner clearly show
that the outstanding contribution of the Testimonies is recognition of
health as a religious duty? A very basic statement! (79, 80)
5. When asked about the source of
her information, Mrs. White answered,
"I did not read any __________________
upon __________________ until I had written __________________ Volumes III and
IV, Appeal to Mothers, and had __________________ most of my six articles
in the six numbers of How to Live." (See 2SM pp. 410-479) (81)
6. Mrs. White had read the article
by Dr. Jackson on how to treat diphtheria, but as to his magazine and his books
she said, "I did not know that such a paper existed as the ________________________,
published at Dansville, N.Y. I had not heard of the ________________________
upon health written by Dr. J. C. Jackson at the time of the June, 1863, vision."
(81)
7. Mrs. White determined not to read
the health works of others until she had fully written out her views, "Lest
it should be said that I received my __________________ upon the subject of
__________________ from __________________ and not from the __________________."
(81)
8. "I was ________________________________"
she wrote of the Otsego vision. "Many things came __________________________________
my own ideas." (81)
9. After the June 1863 vision, Elder
White sent to Dr. ___________________________ of __________________, N.Y. (apparently
without Mrs. White's knowledge) for some of his health literature. (82)
10. While there is agreement on many
points between Mrs. White's writings on health and the teachings of certain
other pioneers in the field of health reform, in some instances she positively
____________________________ with them. (85)
"EARLY HEALTH LITERATURE" (86-96)
1. A few months after the Otsego
vision what tragic event thwarted Ellen White's plans to write? (86, 87)
2. When their youngest son __________________
was prostrated with the same affliction, the Whites decided not to employ the
__________________ of the time, but rather to use simple _________________________
in the home. (87)
3. Mrs. White's first publication
on health was An Appeal to Mothers, which dealt primarily with __________________________
in children and youth. (88, 89) As she was shown in vision a group of imbeciles
"__________________ and crimes, and the __________________ of __________________
were shown me as the causes of this accumulation of human woe and suffering."
(89)
4. In the above pamphlet she made
her first appeal for a vegetarian diet: "In order to __________________ in them
[the children] the moral ____________________, the love of spiritual __________________,
we must __________________ the manner of our __________________, dispense with
__________________, __________________, and use __________________, __________________,
and __________________ as articles of food." (90)
5. Mrs. White's first comprehensive
treatise on the subject of health was published in __________________, Vol.
4, in August _______.
6. Of the free use of drugs at that
time she wrote, "I was shown that more __________________ are caused by drug
taking than from all other __________________ combined." (91) She wrote further:
"Drugs never cure __________________. They only change the __________________
and __________________. Nature alone is the effectual __________________, and
how much better could she perform her task if left to herself." (92)
7. Review briefly Ellen White's personal
battle with becoming a vegetarian. (94, 95)
8. What was the testimony of several
who adopted the principles of health reform? (95, 96)
LESSON THREE--CAMPAIGNING FOR
HEALTH AND DRESS REFORM
Reading assignment: pages 97-130,
441-445
"LAUNCHING A CAMPAIGN FOR HEALTH"
(97-111)
1. Immediately after Mrs. White's
article titled "Health" was published in August 1864, why did she and her husband
and others go to Dansville, N.Y.? (98)
2. How did Ellen White speak of Dr.
H. F. Lay's decision to join the medical staff at Dansville in the summer of
1864? (99)
3. List some features of the Dansville
institution. (101)
4. While the Whites were generally
well pleased with what they found at Dansville, what did they find objectionable?
(102)
5. What did J. N. Loughborough testify
as to the effect of health reform upon himself? (103)
6. Mrs. White wrote that the health
reform is "a part of the __________________ message," and "just as closely connected
with it as are the __________________ and __________________ with the human
__________________." (105)
7. In 1865, the Whites published
a series of six pamphlets titled "Health or How to Live," in which Mrs. White
contributed an article to each pamphlet on "Diseases _______________________________."
(See 2SM pp. 410-479) Non-Adventist health reformers whose valuable articles
were quoted included Trall, __________________, __________________, __________________,
__________________, __________________, and __________________. (106)
8. How did the ladies in the Battle
Creek church help the health reform work? (107)
"THE POPULAR DRESS REFORM" (112-119)
1. Three distinguished women other
than Mrs. White who became a triumvirate of dress reformers were _________________________,
_________________________ and ___________________________. (113, 114)
2. Dr. Harriet Austin's modification
of a more healthful style of dress for women was known as the ________________________________
. (115)
3. What were some of the undesirable
features of the popular dress fashions of the 1850s and '60s? (112, 117, 118)
4. Though exact styles of the various
dress reformers did not prevail, what end results were accomplished? (117, 118)
"THE QUEST FOR MODERATION" (120-130)
1. Earliest Adventist attitudes advocating
simplicity in dress were not so much from the standpoint of __________________
as against __________________ and __________________. (120, 121)
2. On May 27, 1856, Mrs. White was
shown in vision that "the outside __________________ is an __________________
to the heart." (121)
3. Summarize the principles given
by Mrs. White as a basis for true dress reform. (125, 126)
4. Mrs. White opposed the "American
Costume" because of its __________________, its resemblance to __________________,
as being contrary to __________________ injunction, and because of the __________________
it would raise against those who had a solemn truth to give to the world. (126)
5. As a result of viewing the "American
Costume" at Dansville, what steps were Elder and Mrs. James White prompted to
take? (127)
6. How did Mrs. White describe the
length of women's dress? (129)
7. When Ellen White saw that some
were overemphasizing the dress question, what protest did she utter? (129)
"APPENDIX" (441-445)
1. After a few years the whole dress
question was dropped because:
(a) "With some there was no __________________
and __________________ in the preparation of the costume, and those who refused
to adopt it caused __________________ and __________________." (441)
(b) "In recent years a more __________________
style of dress has been adopted by the __________________." (441)
2. List seven principles which should
guide in the selection of attire. (442)
LESSON FOUR--BUILDING UPON AFFLICTION
Reading assignment: pages 131-171
"DAYS OF AFFLICTION" (131-142)
1. What were contributing factors
to the physical breakdown of James White in the summer of 1865? (131-133)
2. Mrs. White did not unconditionally
accept all the practices at Dansville. She said, "We did not feel that there
was any necessity of gathering the __________________ with the __________________."
(135)
3. The Whites did not attend many
of the lectures at Dansville because of the heated and unhealthy atmosphere
of the hall, and because she saw a conflict between Dr. Jackson's philosophy
and that "which had been received from ________________ and _______________
authority." (136) When she was asked to help in plans for a dance, she wrote,
"The ideas that are here advanced that we are too ________________________________,
and that is the reason why we are invalids, I will not, I cannot admit." (137)
4. In a vision at Rochester following
the visit at Dansville, Ellen White "was shown that those who are strongly fortified
with __________________________ and are firm to obey all God's requirements
cannot receive that benefit from the popular __________________________ of the
day that others of a different faith can. . . . They have to carry along with
them at all times the _________________________ and ____________________________
everything they hear, that they may choose the ________________________ and
refuse the _________________________." (141)
5. After leaving Dansville what two
factors led Elder James White to shrink from all physical exertion? (138)
6. Ellen White's opposition to the
theory of inactivity led her to take what course of action regarding her sick
husband? (138, 139)
7. Ellen White's vision of December
25, 1865, led to what further step in the health program of the Adventist Church?
(140, 142)
"LET US ARISE AND BUILD" (143-155)
1. In 1866 why had the General Conference
Committee and the Michigan Conference Committee not met for several months?
(143)
2. With such conditions facing the
church, what plan was suggested? (144)
3. At the third General Conference
Session that followed, Ellen White appealed that Adventists "should have an
__________________ of their own for the benefit of the __________________ and
__________________ among us." (145)
4. In 1866 a new sixteen-page monthly
periodical called The __________________ was issued at the _________________________________
in Battle Creek, Michigan. (146, 147)
Note the aims of the editor.
5. What efforts were made to assure
that The Health Reformer would be a professional journal? (149)
6. What prominent names headed the
list of those who donated money to establish the Health Reform Institute? (150)
7. When the Health Reform Institute
opened in September 1866 there were "__________________ doctors, __________________
bath attendants, __________________ nurse (untrained), __________________ or
__________________ helpers, __________________ patient, any amount of __________________
and a great deal of __________________ in the future of the institution and
the principles upon which it was founded." (153)
"THE MINISTRY AS TEACHERS OF HEALTH"
(156-171)
1. List the step-by-step advances
that were made by the Adventist Church in doctrine and practice prior to health
reform. (156)
2. What was the testimony of several
ministers who accepted health reform? (156-158)
3. Dr. John Harvey Kellogg summarized
the effects of health reform:
"In every __________________ of __________________
were to be found those who freely acknowledged that they owed their __________________
to the light which they had received upon this __________________." (159)
4. Ellen White wrote, "Well regulated
__________________ gives the __________________ the idea that he is not totally
__________________ in the world, that he is, at least, of some __________________.
This will afford him __________________, give him __________________ and impart
to him __________________." (160)
How did she follow this counsel for
her own husband? (160-162)
5. Ellen White suggests why the reform
dress had been laid aside in 1881: "To those who put it on __________________,
from a sense of __________________, it becomes a grievous __________________.
Still others, who are apparently the most zealous __________________, manifested
a sad lack of ___________________________________ and in their dress." (168)
6. She said further: "No one precise
__________________ has been given me as the exact rule to guide all in their
__________________. . . . Let our sisters dress __________________ as many do,
having the dress of _________________ __________________, durable, modest, appropriate
for this __________________, and let not the dress __________________ fill the
mind." (169)
LESSON FIVE--HEALTH INSTITUTIONS
AND EXTREMES
Reading assignment: pages 172-202
"A LESSON IN INSTITUTIONAL FINANCE"
(172-182)
1. With almost immediate success
of the Western Health Reform Institute the medical superintendent called for
another large building. He was joined by what two other leaders in the
church? (172, 173)
2. At the first annual meeting held
on May 17, 1867, what further reports encouraged such a project? (174)
3. In contrast to these leaders,
Ellen White wrote that the Health Reform Institute should be "small at its __________________,
and cautiously __________________, as good __________________ and helpers could
be procured and __________________ raised, and as the wants of invalids should
demand." (175, 176) What three other valid reasons did she give for misgivings
about too large an expansion at this time? (176)
4. Mrs. White emphasized balance
regarding the entire work of the church: "Let the health __________________
and the health __________________ grow up among us as other worthy enterprises
have grown taking into account our __________________ in the past and our __________________
to do much in a short period of time now. . . . Move no faster, brethren, than
the __________________ of God opens the way before you." (176, 177)
5. In contrast with the amusements
at the Dansville institute Ellen White recommended outdoor exercise: "I saw
there should be connected with the institute ample __________________, beautiful
with __________________, and planted with __________________ and __________________.
Here the __________________ could find work, appropriate to the __________________
and, ______________________________, at suitable hours." (178)
6. Though the foundations had begun
for the large expansion, what did Elder White counsel those connected with the
institution? Why? (179)
7. What notice appeared in the April
7, 1868, Review and Herald that had a direct bearing on this institution?
(179) In this testimony what financial practice did Ellen White especially warn
against in regard to our institutions? (180)
As the result of this counsel what
change in financial policy was authorized at the General Conference? (181)
"LOST CONFIDENCE RESTORED" (183-190)
1. What special resolution was passed
at the 1869 General Conference regarding Elder James White? (183)
2. What divine interposition came
just as it looked like the Health Reform Institute would be closed? (185)
3. What further plans were made by
Elder White to assure successful financial operation of the Health Institute?
(185)
4. On December 10, 1871, Ellen White
was given a vision in which she "was again shown that the __________________
is one branch of the great __________________ which is to fit a people for the
__________________ of the Lord. It is as closely connected with the __________________
message as the hand is with the body." (188)
5. Ellen White clearly contrasts
Adventist health institutions with others: "Most institutions of the kind are
established upon different __________________ and are __________________, making
it their object to meet the __________________ half way and to so shape their
course that they will receive the greatest _____________ and the most __________________.
. . . The __________________ at Battle Creek is established upon firm __________________
principles." (189)
6. In 1871 Ellen White could list
several evidences of God's blessing upon the health work. Give five of
these. (190)
"OPPOSING EXTREME VIEWS" (191-202)
1. Important visions regarding health
reform were given in the years __________________, __________________, __________________,
__________________, and __________________. (191)
2. Ellen White spoke against "__________________
undertaking to treat disease professedly according to the principles of health
reform. . . . Let those try to treat __________________ who know something about
the human __________________." (193)
3. Appreciation for Doctor Trall
of Dansville led the church to make what potentially embarrassing decision?
(194, 195)
Within two or three years what results
became evident from this affiliation? (195, 196)
4. Under these discouraging conditions
James White became editor of The Health Reformer in the year __________________.
His editorial policy: "The Reformer proposes to reach the people with
all their __________________, and their __________________ or the laws of __________________,
where they are. It will avoid __________________ positions, and come as near
those who need __________________ as possible, and yet be true to the __________________
of health __________________." (196)
5. How was the difficulty over Dr.
Trall's department in The Health Reformer resolved? (197)
6. Ellen White united with her husband
in an effort to improve The Health Reformer, urging that we ought to
avoid extreme views: "We should not with our __________________ advocate __________________
that we do not put to a __________________ test in our own families, upon our
own __________________. This is dissimulation, a species of __________________."
(197)
7. According to Ellen White the list
of injurious articles against which The Health Reformer would continue
to bear positive testimony included what items? (198)
LESSON SIX--TOWARD WORLD RECOGNITION
AND LEADERSHIP
Reading assignment: pages 203-235
"REACHING FOR HIGH STANDARDS"
(203-212)
1. By the early 1870s the need for
what changes at the Health Institute became apparent? (203)
2. James White wrote in 1874 to Elder
Butler, president of the General Conference: "Show me the __________________
and then __________________ away. Hustle __________________ off to some doctor
mill, and get ready. Our __________________ are already larger than our doctors."
(205)
3. In following through with his
convictions Elder White lent _______________________, a young man of great talent,
__________________ to meet his expenses in taking a medical education in New
York. (205)
4. Even before he had finished his
medical course, Dr. __________________ was called to succeed James White as
editor of The Health Reformer and __________________ months later the
circulation reached __________________. (205, 206)
5. In the year 1874 Dr. Kellogg wrote
five health tracts. List these: (209, 210)
6. The cause of health reform received
further impetus by the preparation and production of the __________________
__________________ in which recipes and principles of healthful diet were set
forth. (210)
7. Dr. J. H. Kellogg was made medical
superintendent of the Health Reform Institute in __________________, marking
the beginning of a new era in the Adventist health movement. (210)
"ON TO WORLD LEADERSHIP" (213-222)
1. Why did Elder James White at this
time withdraw his objections to increasing the size of the Health Reform Institute
buildings? (213)
2. On April 10, 1878, the new buildings
dedicated were called the __________________ and __________________ __________________,
a name that had been chosen a year earlier. (214, 215)
3. Recognition was given by the Michigan
State __________________, who were guests at the institution in May __________________.
(215, 216)
4. What was the religious program
of the Sanitarium? (220, 221)
5. What was the extent of charity
work done by the institution in the first twenty-five years of its operation?
(222)
6. Describe the steps taken for the
care of the worthy poor in 1891. (222)
"UNITING WITH THE TEMPERANCE FORCES"
(223-235)
1. One of the first opportunities
for cooperating with temperance forces was made possible early in the year __________________
in the city of __________________, California, where Elders __________________
and __________________ were conducting a series of meetings. On what basis was
this cooperation accomplished? (225)
2. From a vision given on January
3, 1875 (the day before the dedication of Battle Creek College), Ellen White
writes: "I was shown that the giant power of __________________ will not be
__________________ by any such efforts as have been made. The work of __________________
must begin in our __________________, at our __________________." (226)
3. Ellen White often spoke on the
subject of __________________. One of her largest audiences was no less than
__________________ people on a campground at __________________, Mass., in the
summer of __________________. (228)
4. How was high respect for Ellen
White's speaking on temperance illustrated in her own home town of Battle Creek
in 1877? (229)
5. The Adventists made a tent available
to the Women's Christian Temperance Union for this large temperance rally. What
was the chief attraction in the temperance restaurant that was set up? (229,
230)
6. When the American Health and Temperance
Association was organized by Adventists in January __________________ with Dr.
__________________ as president, they adopted a far-reaching temperance pledge:
"I do hereby solemnly affirm that with the help of God I will wholly abstain
from the voluntary use of __________________, __________________, __________________,
__________________, __________________, and all other __________________ and
__________________ in any form." This promise was called the __________________
Pledge. (230, 231)
LESSON SEVEN--MEDICAL MISSIONARIES
TRAINED FOR SERVICE
Reading assignment: pages 236-270
"TRAINING FOR SERVICE" (236-248)
1. From the first, what divine principle
was emphasized in the instruction given Seventh-day Adventists regarding health
reform? (236)
2. At the General Conference Session
held in May 1868, Dr. __________________ was the first man appointed to work
in full-time health education. Why was his work discontinued after only three
church appointments? (239)
3. In late 1876, Testimonies for
the Church, No. ______________, appeared, in which Mrs. White stated that
Jesus "devoted more time and labor to __________________ the __________________
of their maladies than to __________________." (240)
4. To meet the needs for a school
for teaching health a "__________________ of __________________" was opened
January 14, __________________, with an enrollment of __________________ students.
(240, 244)
5. In the Review and Herald
of December 20, 1877, what "plans" and "helps" did S. N. Haskell say had been
developed? (241)
6. With the requirements for medical
training still quite liberal, why was the degree of MD not given by the school
at this time? (243)
7. In the spring of __________________
another advanced move was made when the sanitarium made a public call for half
a dozen __________________ to learn "__________________, __________________,
and the use of __________________ and other branches of the __________________
medical department." (245)
8. In late 1889 Dr. Kellogg launched
the __________________ and __________________ Missionary School, where young
men and women could take special training as __________________, __________________,
__________________, and __________________. (246, 247)
"TRAINING OF PHYSICIANS" (249-258)
1. How were the first twenty young
men and women started on their medical career by Dr. John Harvey Kellogg? (250)
2. In 1884 Ellen White sent a special
message to Dr. Kellogg which was published the next year in Testimonies for
the Church, Vol. 5. What qualifications of Christian physicians did she
list? (251, 252)
3. In a special meeting at the sanitarium
on August 18, _________, the General Conference __________________, the Sanitarium
Board of __________________, and most of the twenty members of the medical class,
with Elder __________________, president of the General Conference, made plans
for the future. A pledge had been signed by each of the prospective students.
Review the two major points of this pledge. (256, 257)
This meeting was characterized as
"one of the most important meetings ever held in the interests of __________________
work, in the history of this __________________." (258)
"FOR MEDICAL MISSIONARY SERVICE"
(259-270)
1. Ellen White wrote in 1884, "The
work of the Christian __________________ does not end with healing the __________________
of the body; his efforts should extend to the __________________ of the __________________,
to the __________________ of the soul. . . . The physician should know how to
__________________. Prayer will give the sick an abiding confidence; and many
times if their cases are borne to the great __________________ in humble trust,
it will do more for them than all the __________________ that can be administered."
(259)
2. Review how the union of medical
and missionary work was providentially associated with the beginnings of the
modern missionary movement outside of the Adventist Church. (259-265)
3. How did the Adventist Church first
make a point of contact with medical missionary societies outside of our church
in 1891? (265)
4. Though the Adventist Church did
not have its own medical school, what specific plans were carried out to provide
Adventist medical students in Michigan with a proper environment? (266)
5. Note the sixteen rules
prepared for the students who attended medical school in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
(267)
6. Review briefly the daily program
that was followed at the Jefferson St. Home. (268, 269)
LESSON EIGHT--A SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST
MEDICAL COLLEGE
Reading assignment: pages 271-311
"LAUNCHING A MEDICAL COLLEGE"
(271-283)
1. Ellen White answered her own question,
"How shall the Lord's work be done?" in the first issue of a new magazine entitled
________________________________, which was launched in January 1891. "There
is a way in which many doors will be opened to the __________________. Let him
become __________________ in the care of the __________________, as a __________________
or learn how to treat disease, as a __________________; and if he is imbued
with the spirit of __________________ what a field of __________________ is
open before him." (271)
2. What two circumstances opened
the way for large city work by Seventh-day Adventists? (275, 276)
3. What five lines of work,
all free, were begun in rented facilities from the Pacific Garden Mission in
Chicago? (277)
This city mission also furnished
the __________________________________________ necessary for a medical college.
(278)
4. With many of the obstacles to
obtaining recognition for a medical college removed, application was made to
the Illinois legislature for a charter, which was granted on July 3, _________,
for what was to be known as the American _________________________________ College.
(281)
"VARIANT VIEWS ARISE" (284-300)
1. The 1901 Adventist Church Directory
listed in addition to a sanitarium at Battle Creek, Michigan, sanitariums in
what eight other states? (284)
2. The first overseas medical work
was carried on by those who sailed on our first missionary ship _________________________
in October, __________________. On the second voyage Dr. __________________
sailed on the boat and located on the island of __________________. Other doctors
later sailed to __________________, and in 1894 Dr. __________________ went
to Guadalajara, __________________. (284, 285)
3. List some of the other countries
that early participated in the medical missionary program of the church. (285,
286)
4. Under the auspices of the International
Medical Missionary and Benevolent Association, the Haskell Memorial Home and
the James White Memorial Home were operated for __________________ and __________________.
(286)
5. Spirit of Prophecy counsel urged
that unity was to be maintained between the medical missionary work and the
gospel ministry, on the one hand by the ministry who should ____________________________________
and on the other hand by the medical workers who should ___________________________________________________.
(286)
6. Ellen White sent a special message
to the General Conference of 1897 emphasizing a failure on the part of the ________________________________
to follow health principles. (287) In concluding her appeal to all church members
she said: "God calls for __________________ in our churches. Satan is playing
the __________________ of life for every soul. He is seeking to __________________
humanity whom God __________________. But when the __________________ is held
under the control of an intelligent God-fearing __________________ there will
be a cultivation of pure spiritual __________________." (289)
7. At the 1899 General Conference
Session a message was received from Mrs. White warning against extremes by the
medical branch of the church: "As new __________________ are entered upon there
is a __________________ to make some one line all-__________________; that which
should have the __________________ place becomes a __________________ consideration."
(291) She also cautioned regarding work for the derelicts: "The work of seeking
the __________________ is important, but it is not to become the __________________
of our mission." (292)
8. In defending the gospel ministry
she continued: "There must be no __________________ of the gospel ministry.
. . . The __________________ of all work is the ministry and its various lines,
and it should be kept before the __________________ that there is no work more
__________________ of God than of the gospel ___________________________." (292)
9. The first evidence of separation
from the Adventist Church by Dr. John Harvey Kellogg is found in his substituting
"International" for Seventh-day Adventist in the name of the medical organization.
He explained this later: "The _________________________ Medical Missionary and
Benevolent Association is a unique __________________ in the fact that it is,
as far as we know at least, the only association which has undertaken to organize
and carry forward medical and __________________ work __________________ of
any __________________ or __________________ control, in home and foreign lands."
(293)
10. Another evidence of separation
came at the opening of the American Medical Missionary College in 1895. Dr.
Kellogg stated, "This is not a __________________ school. __________________
doctrines are not to be taught in this medical school. . . . It is not to be
either a __________________ or a __________________ or a __________________
or any other sectarian school, but a __________________ medical college." (294)
Ellen White responded, emphasizing that "the __________________ people of God"
were to "__________________ His name by proclaiming the last message of __________________"
and "by being __________________ of the __________________ for this time." (295)
11. Mrs. White had further counsel:
"If admitting to your classes those not of our __________________ will lead
to silence on the great __________________ that concern our present and eternal
good--themes that should ever be kept before the __________________--let them
not be __________________." (296)
12. As Dr. Kellogg repeatedly declared
the medical work to be undenominational, Ellen White objected: "It has been
stated that the Battle Creek Sanitarium is not _____________________. But if
ever an institution was __________________ to be ________________________ in
every sense of the word, this __________________ was. . . . We are not to take
pains to declare that the __________________ Sanitarium is not a __________________
institution, for this it certainly is." (298)
"STEPS TOWARD UNITY" (301-311)
1. In 1901 there were more persons
employed by the International Medical Missionary and Benevolent Association
than the __________________. (301)
2. What financial factors helped
to contribute to the independent attitude of the medical work of the church?
(303)
3. Another factor that led to misunderstanding
between the General Conference and the Medical Missionary Association was that
there was no representative of the medical work on the __________________ Committee
or on the ____________________________________. (304)
4. The General Conference of ___________________
was an epochal one in the history of Seventh-day Adventists, as it was a meeting
of __________________.
This included enlarging the ____________________________________
and a larger representation of the various lines of work. (305)
5. Clearly and definitely underlying
counsel for reorganization was the principle that responsibilities should be
__________________ rather than __________________. Yet at this time the medical
work was centralizing. (309) On April 16, 1901, Dr. Kellogg outlined the following
plan: "All the __________________ and ____________________ shall be incorporated
on a similar plan, so that they shall be __________________ to this __________________."
(309, 310)
6. Three months later Mrs. White
responded: "It has been presented before me __________________ that there is
not to be a __________________ of __________________ or a __________________
of all the sanitariums with the __________________ Sanitarium, so that they
shall all be __________________ to your __________________." (310)
LESSON NINE--SEPARATION AND A
NEW DIRECTION
Reading assignment: pages 312-342
"FINAL STEPS IN SEPARATION" (312-328)
1. At the 1899 General Conference
several messages from Ellen White in Australia especially for the Conference,
warning against Dr. Kellogg's pantheistic teachings, were read: "__________________
is not God and never was God. The voice of nature testifies of God, declaring
His __________________; but nature itself is not God. As God's __________________
__________________, it but bears a __________________ of His __________________.
. . . Christ came to the __________________ as a __________________ Saviour.
He represented a __________________ God." (312)
2. At this session Dr. Kellogg presented
pantheistic teachings that were at first unrecognized as such. Note the following:
(314)
Righteousness
Justification
Health Reform
3. What series of events caused pantheism
to threaten to disrupt the church? (317)
4. Mrs. White warned regarding plans
for rebuilding the burned-out sanitarium:
"Last night I was __________________
to tell you that the __________________ you are making in Battle Creek is not
after God's __________________. You are __________________ to build in Battle
Creek a __________________ than should be erected there." (318)
5. In his writing of the book ____________________________________
Dr. Kellogg again promoted his pantheistic teachings. (319) How did Ellen White
work to heal the breach that was developing between the medical missionary work
and the church at the 1903 General Conference? (321)
6. At the __________________ Autumn
Council in Washington, D.C., where the __________________ and __________________
Publishing Co. and the __________________ headquarters had been moved, Dr. Kellogg's
book ___________________________________ was a topic of controversy. Writing
from California, Mrs. White warned regarding pantheism: "Those __________________,
followed to their logical __________________ sweep away the whole ____________
______________. . . . They make of __________________ the truth of ____________________
origin, and rob the __________________ of God of their past __________________,
giving them instead a __________________." (323)
7. What is the effect of a theory
that makes God so large that He cannot sit upon His throne? (324)
8. The outstanding causes of the
final separation of Dr. Kellogg from the church were the questions of ____________________________________
and ____________________________________. (325)
9. By the year 1906 the medical superintendent
of the Battle Creek Sanitarium was declaring that "The __________________ does
not own the __________________ and never can __________________ it, for it belongs
to the __________________." (328)
"A REMARKABLE COINCIDENCE" (329-334)
1. Following counsel given through
Mrs. White, Battle Creek College was moved to __________________, Michigan,
in __________________ and re-established there as ____________________________________.
(329)
2. After fire destroyed the Battle
Creek Sanitarium in 1902, Ellen White wrote:
"By __________________, the Lord
removed the great __________________ in favor of gathering many students to
__________________. He swept away the __________________ to prevent the carrying
out of the _______________ that Battle Creek was to be the __________________
for the training of __________________." (330)
3. With denominational support withdrawn,
attendance at the American Medical Missionary College declined. There was a
graduating class of __________________ in the spring of __________________,
the last to receive diplomas from the school. (330, 331)
4. That very same year the Review
and Herald carried the following report:
"September 29 [1910] was a __________________
day in the history of our __________________ work. A new milestone was passed
in the opening of the __________________ of __________________ our __________________
college at __________________, California." (333)
"RAPID MOVES IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA"
(335-342)
1. As early as the summer of __________________
Mrs. White was urging a strong medical missionary work to be carried forward
in southern __________________. She wrote to the General Conference president:
"Brother __________________, constantly the Lord is keeping southern __________________
before me as a place where we must __________________ medical __________________.
Every year this __________________ is visited by many thousands of __________________.
(335)
2. Encouragement was given by Mrs.
White that we would be able to purchase land and buildings at unusual bargains.
She wrote: "For __________________ the Lord has given me __________________
that He is __________________ the way for our people to obtain __________________,
at __________________, of __________________ on which there are __________________
that can be utilized in our work." (335)
3. That same year she published
Testimonies for the Church, Vol. __________________. More than __________________
of the instruction in this volume was devoted to __________________, __________________,
and __________________. (335)
4. In contrast to the building of
one large institution in Battle Creek, Ellen White wrote, "__________________
missionary work in southern California is not to be carried forward by the __________________
of one __________________ institution. . . . As soon as __________________,
sanitariums are to be __________________ in __________________ places in southern
California. Let a beginning be made in __________________ places." (336)
5. She also stated: "Our __________________
are to be established for one __________________--the advancement of __________________.
And they are to be so __________________ that a decided __________________ in
favor of the __________________ will be made on the minds of those who come
to them for __________________." (336)
6. How were Ellen White's predictions
regarding the establishment of sanitariums in California remarkably fulfilled
in the following locations:
Paradise Valley (337, 338)
Glendale (341)
LESSON TEN--THE LOMA LINDA STORY
Reading assignment: pages 343-379
"THE CALL FOR A THIRD SANITARIUM"
(343-346)
1. For what reason was a search continued
for sanitarium property even though by 1904 we had two such properties? (343)
2. When the Loma Linda property was
first found, the price was quoted at __________________. It was reduced to __________________,
even though it represented an original investment of __________________. Still
later the __________________ acres of Loma Linda property were offered for the
price of only __________________. (344-346)
"PURCHASE OF LOMA LINDA PROPERTY"
(347-353)
1. Trace the difficult circumstances
under which the Loma Linda property was purchased. (347)
2. Corresponding with Elder __________________,
Mrs. White instructed him to secure an option on the Loma Linda property. She
concluded her letter with a call to faith and assurance of God's help: " Here
is the __________________ of the Lord. Open up every __________________ possible.
We are to labor in __________________, taking hold of a __________________ that
is pledged to do __________________ things for us. We are to reach out in faith
in __________________, and in __________________ and __________________. (348,
349)
3. In the face of hesitancy on the
part of the leadership of the Southern California Conference, Ellen White wrote
positively to Elder Burden, "In regard to the __________________ of Loma Linda
I will say, ___________________________. . . . I am well __________________
that the place is one we ought to have. It is cheap at __________________ dollars.
We will not __________________ you, but will stand back of you, and help you
to __________________ the __________________." (349)
4. When he could no longer delay
the owners of the property, what action did Elder Burden take to hold the property
for the church? (350)
5. What was Ellen White's reaction
when she first saw this property? (350)
6. At a meeting arranged in the Los
Angeles church on June 20, the president of the Southern California Conference
stated that Sister White had said that the Loma Linda sanitarium "should be"
the principal training school on this coast. What was Sister White's immediate
response? (351, 352)
7. Statements of what two
people helped to turn the tide in favor of securing the institution by the Southern
California Conference? (352, 353)
"HOW THE PAYMENTS WERE MET" (354-361)
1. Briefly trace how in the period
of less than six months the entire $40,000 minus $1,100 discount was raised
by the church for the purchase of the Loma Linda property.
"AN EDUCATIONAL CENTER" (362-370)
1. In 1903 Ellen White wrote: "Medical
missionary work is yet in its __________________. The meaning of __________________
medical missionary work is known by but __________________." In 1905 she wrote:
"Henceforth medical missionary work is to be carried forward with an __________________
with which it has never yet been __________________." What happened between
these two statements that changed the outlook from doubt to optimism? (362,
363)
2. What appeal did Ellen White make
to her long-time friend and associate, Elder S. N. Haskell? (363)
3. Shortly after the institution
opened in November 1905, how were the workers to demonstrate their missionary
spirit? (364)
4. Seven nursing students in the
first class joined in introducing Mrs. White's book ____________________________________,
the profits of which had been dedicated by the author for medical missionary
work. (365)
5. In April 1906, plans were laid
for an advanced training school at Loma Linda. At this time the sanitarium was
dedicated and Ellen White spoke. Of her address she wrote: "I tried to make
it plain that sanitarium __________________ and __________________ were to cooperate
with God in __________________ not only through the use of the __________________
agencies He has placed within our reach, but also by __________________ their
patients to lay hold on __________________ through obedience to the __________________
of God." (365, 366)
6. In a calendar for the new school
what four courses were offered? (369)
"WE WAIT FOR LIGHT" (371-379)
1. What two alternatives regarding
school policy immediately faced the organizers of the College of Evangelists?
(371, 372)
2. How was practical field work linked
with the study program at Loma Linda from the very beginning? (372)
3. At a council held in October 1907,
shortly after the second school year began, Ellen White urged the development
of "a school of the highest order." She was asked whether this meant only nurses
or whether it included qualifications for physicians. She replied: "______________________________________________________."
(374, 375)
4. In following through on this clear
counsel, what organizations beyond the local Southern California Conference
were drawn into the financial support of the institution? (375)
5. Why did Ellen White advise caution
regarding quick expansion in the early years of the institution? (377, 378)
6. What books appeared from Ellen
White's pen during this period with extensive counsel regarding the medical
work of the church? (378, 379)
1902
1904
1905
1909
7. A compilation that appeared in
1932 entitled __________________ also incorporated many counsels that were given
during this time. (379)
LESSON ELEVEN--GROWING PAINS AT
LOMA LINDA
Reading assignment: pages 380-413
"A BOLD VENTURE IN FAITH" (380-389)
1. At the 1909 General Conference
it was requested that the college in Loma Linda be recognized as "an __________________
for the __________________ and __________________ of both __________________
and __________________," and that the General Conference "assist the __________________
in arranging the __________________ and planning for the future __________________
of the school." (380)
2. At this time Loma Linda offered
only a partial medical training, with plans for students to complete their education
in other medical colleges. Elder __________________ laid the matter before Ellen
White in writing. She responded in an interview: "There are some who may not
be able to see that here is a ________________ as to whether we shall put our
__________________ on __________________ or depend upon __________________.
Shall we, by our __________________, seem to __________________ that there is
a stronger __________________ with the ___________________ than there is with
God's own people?. . . We need not __________________ to men in order to secure
__________________." (381, 382)
3. Mrs. White also recommended securing
a __________________. She said, "If you can gain __________________ and __________________,
that will make your work more __________________ without tying yourselves to
__________________, that would be right." (383)
4. On December 9, a charter, secured
under the laws of the State of California, authorized the College of Medical
Evangelists to grant degrees in the __________________ and __________________,
__________________ and __________________. (383)
5. When asked regarding her use of
the term "a medical school," Ellen White replied in writing: "We must provide
that which is __________________ to qualify our youth who desire to be __________________,
so that they may __________________ fit themselves to be able to stand the __________________
required to prove their __________________ as physicians. . . . For the special
__________________ of those of our youth who have clear __________________ of
their duty to obtain a __________________ education that will enable them to
__________________ the examinations required by __________________ of all those
who practice as regularly qualified __________________, we are to supply __________________,
so that these youth need not be compelled to go to __________________ conducted
by men not of our __________________." (386)
6. What three major sources were
recommended for financial support of the newly formed medical school? (387)
"FAITH FURTHER TESTED" (390-402)
1. Elder G. A. Irwin, president of
the Board of Trustees of the College, compared the importance of the launching
of this college to what other major decision by the church? (390)
What were the three essential
factors for success that he outlined? (391)
2. How did Mrs. White respond to
the suggestion early in the development of Loma Linda that part of the seventy-six
acres be sold to meet financial needs? (391)
In the ensuing years what was done
instead? (391)
3. How did a group of four women
help to meet another severe test to the college in 1915? (394, 395, 400, 401)
4. What monument was raised as a
result of their work the following year? (401)
5. In 1917 the rating of the College
of Medical Evangelists was changed from __________________ grade to a __________________
grade. Today it has an __________________ rating. (401)
"THROUGH 'RIVERS OF DIFFICULTY'
" (403-413)
1. In recalling the providential
evidences in connection with securing the Loma Linda property, Ellen White wrote:
"When He [the Lord] __________________ that a certain __________________ should
be secured for the __________________ of His cause and the __________________
up of His work, . . . He will make the doing of that work __________________,
if those who have __________________ will show their faith and trust in His
__________________, and will move __________________ promptly to secure the
__________________ He points out." (403)
2. When a resurvey of medical schools
was announced in the year 1934, what feature of the work helped to continue
to give Loma Linda an A grade rating? (404)
3. In the year __________________
the school of __________________ was opened with a beginning enrollment of forty-two
students. (406)
4. Why was the name changed to Loma
Linda University in 1961? (410)
5. What further important decision
was made in the year 1962 regarding the medical training at Loma Linda? (411)
LESSON TWELVE--GOD CONTINUES TO
LEAD TODAY
Reading assignment: pages 414-438
"BY THE PROVIDENCE OF GOD" (414-425)
1. Review the events leading to a
multimillion-dollar gift for a hospital in Denver. (414-418)
2. Review the series of events that
led to the establishment of the Kettering Hospital in Ohio, with the largest
single gift ever to come to the denomination. (418-424)
3. What three reasons did
non-Adventist doctors give to a visiting inspector for preferring to send their
patients to the Hinsdale Hospital? (421)
4. How did the Hinsdale Hospital
also benefit from the generosity of the Ketterings and other non-Adventists
of the community? (419, 424)
5. What other medical institutions
were blessed by opening providences of God? (424)
"RETROSPECTIVE AND PROSPECTIVE"
(426-438)
1. In speaking of the progressive
nature of the message, Mrs. White wrote in 1867: "When we first received the
__________________ [of Rev. 14], the Lord had many __________________ to say
to us, but we could not hear them all then. He has led us with a __________________
and tender care, __________________ by __________________, until we have reached
the __________________ in __________________." (426)
2. In the year __________________
a full-time qualified physician was appointed as Secretary of the General Conference
__________________. (428, 429)
3. The temperance work of the church
was reorganized in 1932 under the name of the __________________ __________________
of Seventh-day Adventists. In 1947 the __________________ Temperance Association
was organized to supervise and promote a world temperance work. (429, 430)
4. Health Literature Through the
Years (430, 431)
(Journals and Books)
1866
1890
1896
1904
1905
1948
5. Four books relating to health
and the health message have appeared as compilations from Ellen White since
her death. Provide information below for each of these: (431, 432)
(Year, Title, Content)
6. Ellen White gives reasons for
a change in living habits: "Let it ever be kept before the __________________
that the great __________________ of __________________ reform is to secure
the highest __________________ of mind and soul and body. All the laws of __________________--which
are the laws of God--are designed for our __________________. Obedience to them
will __________________ our __________________ in this life and will aid us
in a __________________ for the __________________ to come." (432, 433)
7. Noting the increasing importance
of health reform, Mrs. White wrote: "As we near the __________________ or __________________,
we must rise __________________ and still __________________ upon the question
of __________________ reform and Christian __________________, presenting it
in a more __________________ and decided manner." (437, 438) She said further:
"He who __________________ the light which God has given him upon __________________
reform has an __________________ aid in the work of becoming __________________
through the truth and fitted for __________________." (438)