Chapter 24—The Alpha and the Omega
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During the summer of 1904, at a critical point in the crisis over the
promulgation by Dr. J. H. Kellogg of pantheistic theories, and at a
time when he was advocating unsound policies relating to the
management of our medical work, Ellen G. White sounded a number
of warnings, which were assembled and “Published for the Author” in
a sixty-page pamphlet, Special Testimonies, Series B, No. 2, entitled
“Testimonies for the Church Containing Letters to Physicians and
Ministers Giving Messages of Warning and Words of Counsel and
Admonition Regarding our Present Situation.” In two of these
communications she refers to “The Alpha and the Omega.” Following
are the two statements in their entirety as taken from the pamphlet.
Further counsels making reference to pantheism may be found in
Testimonies for the Church 8:255-318
and
The Ministry of Healing,
427-438
. For the background of the experience with pantheism, see A.
G. Daniells’
The Abiding Gift of Prophecy, pages 330-342
, and L. H.
Christian’s .—Compilers.]
Teach the Word
Washington, D.C.
July 24, 1904
To Our Leading Physicians:
Dear Fellow Worker,
I am awakened at eleven o’clock. The representations passing
before me are so vivid that I cannot sleep. The word of the Lord
has come to me that there is a decided work to be done in warning
our medical missionaries against the dangers and perils that surround
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them.
The Lord calls upon those connected with our sanitariums to reach
a higher standard. No lie is of the truth. If we follow cunningly devised
fables, we unite with the enemy’s forces against God and Christ. God
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