The Great Second Advent Movement: Its Rise and Progress

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Chapter 23 — Health Institutions

“BELOVED, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.” 1 GSAM 358.1

On Sabbath, June 6, 1863, Elder White and his wife attended a tent-meeting held by Elders Cornell and Lawrence in Otsego, Mich. Mrs. White was there given a vision which opened before her the subject of health reform. From that time, articles on health and healthful living were published in the Review, and she began to write what had been revealed to her on health. Some of this appeared in Testimony No. 11, and in a work entitled, How to Live. GSAM 358.2

The subject of healthful living and its proper relations to physical, mental, and spiritual development, was brought prominently before the people. In the Review of Oct. 25, 1864, Elder J. N. Andrews made the following important suggestions on the subject:— GSAM 358.3