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Counsels on Health, 1923
The broad principles of healthful living had been set forth in
The
Ministry of Healing
. However, in Mrs. White’s articles which had
appeared in the journals of the church, in
Testimonies for the Church
,
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and in certain out-of-print books, were many additional messages.
These contained needed instruction regarding health principles, the
conduct of Seventh-day Adventist institutions, and the promulgation
of the health message. The materials were assembled by the White
Trustees in
Counsels on Health
, published in 1923. This 634-page
volume, confined to matter which had appeared in print in one form
or another, provided a volume of great service to the church and
especially to medical personnel.
Medical Ministry, 1932
The promulgation of the health message was for fifty years a
topic of major concern to Ellen White. She wrote more in the
field of health than on any other single topic of counsel. Many of
her manuscript documents, addressed to physicians, institutional
managers, nurses, and sanitarium families embody counsels of vital
importance. Copies of these were kept on file. Many of the counsels
give direction to the medical work. Others, written at crucial times
in the development of phases of our medical work, sound warnings.
Some were messages written to save a worker faced with special
peril. The instruction itself is timeless.
This volume,
Medical Ministry
, is primarily a selection of these
counsels addressed to medical personnel and others connected with
Seventh-say Adventist medical institutions. The counsels have been
drawn together and published so that others might benefit from them.
The preface was written by A. G. Daniells, for may years president
of the general conference and one of the Trustees chosen by Mrs.
White to care for her writings. When the book was first published,
Elder Daniells was also Chairman of the Board of the College of
Medical Evangelists.