The Story of our Health Message

CHAPTER 24 VARIANT VIEWS ARISE

WE HAVE now traced the growth of the work of health reform education among Seventh-day Adventists to the time of the establishment of the medical school at Chicago and Battle Creek. So far our narrative has centered about only one medical institution, the Battle Creek Sanitarium. But few of the physicians have been named. We have now reached an era of rapid expansion, and it would be impossible, within the limits of this volume, to continue the story in detail. SHM 284.1

Within a very few years from the time when the number of Seventh-day Adventist physicians might easily have been counted on the fingers of the hand, there were to be found scores of persons whose lives were dedicated to Christian service in behalf of the needy and suffering. SHM 284.2

In the Directory of the Seventh-day Adventist Church for 1901, only six years after the opening of the American Medical Missionary College, there are listed 286 medical missionaries, of whom 111 were qualified as physicians. Besides the parent institution at Battle Creek, Michigan, there were sanitariums in the states of California, Nebraska, Colorado, Massachusetts, Oregon, Iowa, Ohio, and Washington. As the work of the denomination extended into other lands, the medical missionaries, if they did not accompany the pioneer group, soon followed to unite their efforts with the evangelistic workers. SHM 284.3