The Story of our Health Message

CHAPTER 12 “LET US ARISE AND BUILD”

ELDER JAMES WHITE was not the only Seventh-day Adventist minister whose physical breakdown was indicative of the timeliness of the health reform message. It was a cause for grave concern that during the year ending in the spring of 1866 “instead of an increase of laborers, many of the more efficient ones then in the field” had “been either entirely prostrated or afflicted in some way calculated to dishearten and cripple them.”—The Review and Herald, April 17, 1866. SHM 143.1

A partial list of those thus afflicted is here mentioned. Elder John Bostwick of Minnesota had died. Elders J. N. Loughborough, D. T. Bourdeau, A. S. Hutchins, J. B. Frisbie, and John Byington, because of their poor health, had been able to do little or no field work during the year. All three children of Elder C. O. Taylor had been taken by death, and also one each in the families of Elders R. J. Lawrence and J. N. Andrews. One child of Elder Nathan Fuller was a subject of constant care, with little prospect of recovery, as the result of complications following an attack of measles. SHM 143.2