The Spirit of Prophecy in the Advent Movement

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Chapter 12—Health and Temperance and Medical Missionary Activity

From early days the advent movement has stood for health and temperance as a very part of religious reform and gospel evangelization. SPIAM 84.1

The Encyclopedia Britannica many years ago referred to “the Seventh-day Adventists, who are connected with many sanatoria and the manufacture of food specialties.” SPIAM 84.2

It is true that the promotion of this department of work has led to the projection of sanitariums and hospitals, clinics and treatment rooms, in all the continents. Seeing this, businessmen of the world have again and again offered inducements for the denomination to undertake such enterprises here and there. “You Seventh-day Adventist people know how to run sanitariums,” has often been said. SPIAM 84.3