The Story of Our Health Message -- Study Guide

“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) SHM-SG 34.2

2. At this session Dr. Kellogg presented pantheistic teachings that were at first unrecognized as such. Note the following: (314)
Righteousness
Justification
Health Reform SHM-SG 34.3

3. What series of events caused pantheism to threaten to disrupt the church? (317)

SHM-SG 34.4

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) SHM-SG 34.5

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) SHM-SG 35.1

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) SHM-SG 35.2

7. What is the effect of a theory that makes God so large that He cannot sit upon His throne? (324)

SHM-SG 35.3

8. The outstanding causes of the final separation of Dr. Kellogg from the church were the questions of ____________________________________ and ____________________________________. (325) SHM-SG 35.4

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) SHM-SG 35.5