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before God and confess your sins? How is it, my brethren in the
medical missionary work? Does not the living God speak to you from
His Word concerning the events that are taking place in fulfillment of
that Word? Soon the last great reckoning with man will take place.
Have your lives been such that you can then be weighed in the balances
of the sanctuary, and not be found wanting? Or has your faith been
molded and restricted until it has become unbelief? Has your obedience
to men become rebellion against God? “Examine yourselves, whether
ye be in the faith; prove your own selves” (
2 Corinthians 13:5
).—
Special Testimonies, Series B, No. 2, 12-17
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Beware
Washington, D. C.
August 7, 1904
My Dear Brother:
I am given a message to bear to you and the rest of our physicians
who are connected with the Medical Missionary Association. Separate
from the influence exerted by the book Living Temple; [
A 568-page
book issued in 1903 by Dr. J. H. Kellogg in which pantheistic
philosophies were promulgated.—Compilers.
] for it contains specious
sentiments. There are in it sentiments that are entirely true, but these
are mingled with error. Scriptures are taken out of their connection,
and are used to uphold erroneous theories.
The thought of the errors contained in this book has given me great
distress, and the experience that I have passed through in connection
with the matter has nearly cost me my life.
It will be said that Living Temple has been revised. But the Lord
has shown me that the writer has not changed, and that there can be no
unity between him and the ministers of the gospel while he continues
to cherish his present sentiments. I am bidden to lift my voice in
warning to our people, saying, “Be not deceived; God is not mocked”
(
Galatians 6:7
).
You have had access to Testimonies for the Church, volumes 7 and
8. In these Testimonies the danger signal is raised. But the light so clear
and plain to minds that have not been influenced by deceptive theories,
has not been discerned by some. While the misleading theories of this
book are entertained by our physicians, there cannot be union between