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    INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL MISSIONARY AND BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION

    Fourth Meeting, April 15, 4 P. M.

    J. H. Kellogg, in the chair.GCB April 17, 1901, page 286.6

    Dr. D. Paulson: I was just thinking of another case that came to the sanitarium. He was a morphine eater from a Western State. I asked him why he came here. He said he knew a person who had been to the sanitarium, and he had told this man that if he believed God could cure him, he would do it. I asked the man if I could pray for him. I prayed for him then and there, and I saw that the Spirit of God was moving on his heart. I told his nurse what I am telling you, and said, “If you have impressions to pray for him in a public way, do so, or if he asks you to pray, do so.” He asked the nurse to pray for him several times, and finally gave his heart to God. Just as he was getting well, there was another patient who had a similar difficulty. He was in charge of the same nurse, and when the first patient learned that his nurse was going to take care of a similar case, he told that patient that if he should get in a hard case, he should pray. That is what helps us in these cases. This was told in such an impressive way that I shall never forget it.GCB April 17, 1901, page 286.7

    The Chair: We will go right on with the question of sanitariums in a general sense rather than in a particular way. We have representatives here from sanitariums in several countries, one of whom is Dr. Ottosen, from Skodsborg. He has endured such tribulation in his work there, that I feel that we should call upon him first of all.GCB April 17, 1901, page 286.8

    Dr. J. C. Ottosen: The topic just mentioned is one that interests me very much,—that is the religious interest in our institutions. When we began our medical missionary work in Scandinavia, especially in Denmark, we found great prejudice against us. It is not in Scandinavia as it is here in the United States, where so many religious sects are considered equal. Over there they have an established state church, and all those outside of that are called sects. So it was a great question with me whether that would hinder our work or not. Of course, it would be known to everybody that we were Seventh-day Adventists. We took no pains to advertise the fact when we began our work there, yet we took the stand that we would not conceal anything. There a man in Copenhagen who had attended lectures given by me. He heard that I was back from America, and as he was opposed to everybody, and to Seventh-day Adventists especially, he published in the papers that he would have some meetings, to which he invited me. He called me the Adventist doctor, when he published this,—and said that he was going to discuss Adventism with me. So from the beginning the public heard of me as an Adventist doctor, so much so that one doctor in Copenhagen, whose name was also Ottosen, had to advertise in the papers that he was not the “Advent doctor.”GCB April 17, 1901, page 286.9

    We have found that our medical missionary work has done a great deal to break down pre-existing prejudice. There is one fraction of the state church that has not the least to do with sects, especially with Seventh-day Adventists, and so they bring everything they have to bear upon the people. They tell them that they are to burn in hell forever, so you can see from this that the Seventh-day Adventist people are not appreciated. But as we began our medical work some of those people became interested. Some of them became very sick and hovered around the institution, seemingly afraid to go in. But after some time they became so poorly as their diseases grew worse, that at last one ventured inside the institution, and recovered. He went home and told the people that those Adventists were not such people as they had thought they were. He said he thought they were Christian people, and the next thing I knew, they advertised in their public religious paper, and collected money with which to send poor patients to the Seventh-day Adventist institution. We had several of the state priests come to our institution, one case which I will mention. He was very much afraid to say anything in the line of approval while he was at the institution, because he was afraid we would use his name in our advertisements. But the last day before he went away, he was conducting worship for the guests. Sometimes we have asked those ministers to lead these meetings, and while he was doing that, he was very much touched, and everybody could see he was not far from shedding tears. He said, “I want to say before I go away, that there is one thing here that I never have thought I should see on this earth, and that is, I have seen Christian principles lived out in this institution. I thought it not possible, but I have seen it, and I praise the Lord.” When he went home, his church wanted to hear him speak about the institution, and he said, “Well I can not say”—he was afraid he would say too much—“I can not say that I have been so very much benefited, but there is one thing I want to say, and that is, I have never seen Christian principles lived out as I saw in that institution: and one thing is sure, if I ever get sick and need treatment, that is the place where I shall go.” He was asked some questions about our religious views, when he said, “Well, they don’t say much about their special lines of doctrines; but one thing is sure, everything in the institution tend toward Adventism.”GCB April 17, 1901, page 286.10

    I had several experiences that encouraged me very much. One day I was sitting in the office, and a lady came in. She had been a public lecturer for many years, and has great influence. She said, “Are you Dr. Ottosen?” I said, “I am.” Said she, “Are you a Seventh-day Adventist?”GCB April 17, 1901, page 287.1

    “Yes.”GCB April 17, 1901, page 287.2

    “Well, I thank God,” she said. That was the first time that such a person ever said to me that she thanked God that I was a Seventh-day Adventist. That encouraged me very much. Two days later one of the leading business men of the city came into my office, and after he had been assured that the doors were closed, he came and took my right hand in both of his, and said, with tears running down his face, “I am so happy that you are a Christian man. I have sought for Christian physicians in whom I could have confidence, doctors who are honest men.”GCB April 17, 1901, page 287.3

    I said “Doctors generally are honest men.”GCB April 17, 1901, page 287.4

    “I admit that some of them are,” he said, and named one; “but,” he added, “while he is a very nice man, I can not have any confidence in him, because he does not know God.”GCB April 17, 1901, page 287.5

    Two days later there came a lady from a distant town. She had traveled eight or nine hundred miles. When she came into the office, she told about a long life of misery endured, and then said: “I hardly think that you can help me physically, but rumors have gone about in my neighborhood that here was an institution with a Christian physician, and I came here because I understand that I need something both for my soul and body.” I had some Bible talk with her, and we knelt down and prayed together. After a short time, she found peace with the Lord, and you never saw a happier person than she was. We have seen many conversions of people who came to us as patients, and they have been baptized, and joined the church. Some have not gone so far, but many are coming to us now, and visit us over, the Sabbath. These come Friday to receive some treatment and then spend the Sabbath with us. Many of them ask, “Can you send a preacher to our city?” I hope the day will come when we can send a preacher to them.GCB April 17, 1901, page 287.6

    One author in the city came out and spent two weeks with us; and after he went away, wrote a letter to me, saying that he had never met anything like the spirit that was in our institution. He said, “I was for years a declared atheist, but was forced to change my views by the principles and the spirit that pervade your institution. One evening, just before I came away, my wife was sitting in her room when in came one of our guests. He is one of the most influential men in the country. He is next to the king in influence, and had been in our institution for some time. This man then said to my wife; “One thing here has astonished me, and that is how your nurses treat that poor patient [he referred to a poor boy receiving charity treatment], and he said, with tears running down his cheeks, that he admired us for it. These must certainly be true Christian principles, or they would not talk so. That is the way our principles work. They testify to the truth.GCB April 17, 1901, page 287.7

    I have never been more blessed than when I have sat by the sick bed, and talked to some poor, lonely soul about Christ and his love. I esteem it a great privilege to be in this grand and glorious work. I have seen, too, many times, that God sends dying people to us. We have had more than a few such cases, for whom it was impossible to do anything, but they stayed there several weeks, and found peace with the Lord before they died.GCB April 17, 1901, page 287.8

    One thing very interesting to me is the great interest the patients, or guests, take in our Sabbath meetings. Many come in, and listen attentively to what we have to say, and even though we may not speak about the Sabbath, our Sabbath-keeping impresses them very highly. Just before I came away, one influential person came to our institution. She is a countess, and of course, she was in many respects a very difficult case. But at the last Sabbath meeting before I came away, this lady was present, and the day after, when I met her in the consultation room, she thanked me very heartily for the blessing it had been to her. Then she began to ask me about the Sabbath, why we kept it, etc. In the last letter I received from my wife, she said, this countess had been to visit her, and she says that she thinks that she will keep the Sabbath.GCB April 17, 1901, page 287.9

    These are some of our bright pictures. We have also had some trials and difficulties, but God has blessed us. I will mention one thing to show the interest there is in our institution, and the opinion in which it is held in the country. When we were close pressed, and it seemed as if the institution must go down, one of the most successful ministers in our Conference, one who had raised up several good churches said, “What in the world shall I do with the churches, if the sanitarium goes down? They will go to pieces!” Of course that was a very strong statement, and we knew it would not be true; but at the same time it gives you an idea of the influence which the institution exerts over the churches in our Conference. I think this influence is greater in Europe than in America.GCB April 17, 1901, page 287.10

    I feel thankful that the Lord is prospering us in our work now. The last three months our institution has been crowded with patients. The last word received from Dr. Mortensen informs me that patients have had to occupy some of he offices and other public rooms during the night, in order to be accommodated. My wife has just conducted a health school in Copenhagen, which was attended by from seventy to one hundred persons who were eager to learn about our health principles. After the close of this school of health, she received numerous requests from other places for schools and instruction. I thank the Lord that he has given us this great and glorious work. I expect when the battle is over, and the victory is won, I shall be permitted to meet many souls in the kingdom of God, as the result of our sanitarium work.GCB April 17, 1901, page 287.11

    The Chair: We have representatives here from our different sanitariums—Dr. Riley, of Boulder, Colo.; Dr. Sanderson, of St. Helena, Cal.; Dr. Loper, of College View, Neb.; and others, and we would be glad to hear from them all this afternoon, if we had the time. I want to introduce Dr. Holden, who will say something about the American Medical Missionary College. This is a new enterprise, and you have heard very little about it. We hope the delegates will accept an invitation to visit the college and learn something more about it, before the Conference closes. Dr. Holden will make a statement concerning the college and its works and needs.GCB April 17, 1901, page 288.1

    Dr. W. B. Holden: I feel that I have the most important subject that will come before this association. These speakers have been telling about isolated sanitariums. The Medical Missionary College proposes to make sanitariums all over the world. We are the essential factor in their creation.GCB April 17, 1901, page 288.2

    The question often comes to us. What excuse have you for establishing a medical college? There are twenty medical colleges in Chicago. They all have strong scientific faculties, well equipped, and are doing good work. There are many reasons, however, which make it advisable for us to maintain a medical college. One reason is that scientific men all over the world are evolutionists; for evolution is the foundation of science to-day. Medical science is based upon evolution. Every case of appendicitis is an object-lesson in favor of evolution to the ordinary medical student. The ordinary medical professor teaches his classes that. There are a great many diseases, the cause of which, scientists tell us, is based upon evolution—we have not evolved enough yet to avoid those diseases. Evolution is taught in comparative anatomy, and all through the course. This in itself is sufficient cause for us to establish a medical college where we can study the sciences, and study the physiology of God’s masterpiece of creative genius. Again, all through the worldly medical education, the financial rewards are constantly held before the pupils. It is true that all doctors consider themselves philanthropists in a certain sense, and they are; but large fees, and the rates that they should charge, form an important factor in the education of medical students. From experience I can tell you that this affects the student’s mind when he comes in contact with that mercenary phase for three or four years.GCB April 17, 1901, page 288.3

    We have been working for seven years in Chicago, in rather humble quarters. We have an old building which was formerly used for a children’s home. We have made the best possible use of it, improving it in every place we could. But the time has come now, I believe, when we should have something different for our work. Several of the prominent physicians of Chicago feel kindly toward our medical college, and have volunteered their assistance in teaching and in conducting clinics. These men have frequently said that we have the best clinic in Chicago; and it is true that we have the poorest building of any medical college in Chicago. We must have a building. We have good facilities here in Battle Creek. Nearly one half of our medical work in this school is given here, and the other half in Chicago. We have first-class facilities here. Our laboratories can not be excelled in any college in the land. But at Chicago, where our students get the real practical benefit from studying disease and sick people, we have a poor equipment. It is impossible to conduct the whole medical college work here; for these students must see large numbers of sick people and come in contact with them. This is the reason medical students go to large cities. In order to get a good clinic. Our doctors are “planted out” here, if you please; they bud and blossom down in Chicago, and the Chicago end of our medical school is where we are judged, and where our standing before the medical profession and scientific men of the world is gained. We are known to the scientific world largely by our equipment and work in Chicago. As the lease on the building which we are at present occupying in Chicago, expires the first of next October, it seems to me it is high time that something be done to take steps to build up a creditable work there in the shape of a proper equipment.GCB April 17, 1901, page 288.4

    Our patients get well there in that old building remarkably fast. I sometimes think we can cure a patient as quickly, if not sooner, in that old building, than we can in the sanitarium up on the hill, and I have worked, and seen results in both places. They get well in spite of our poor equipment. But when the medical profession come into our building, they do not ask if our patients get well. They only see the bath-tubs of old pattern, the old building, the antique heating plant, and they judge us by the things which they see in the building, rather than by what we accomplish. The men who are teaching for us in Chicago have had a hope that at some time our work could be put upon a better basis. The time may come when they may refuse to work with the poor equipment that we have, or put up with the inconveniences they meet. It occurs to me it would be a great deal more wise to retain their good will and favor in the scientific world by keeping them on our side, rather than to go on as we are, until they become discouraged on account of our equipment.GCB April 17, 1901, page 288.5

    We do not need a fine or elaborate building. We need a clean building, one that can be kept in a sanitary condition at all times. I believe that this Conference is going to take steps to help us out in a practical way, putting us in a position where we can say to the people of Chicago that they may judge our medical school by what they see there, and not have to send them here to Battle Creek to see our equipment. I do not believe it is best to try to go on further in trying to educate medical missionaries, men who are going to mold our work the world over, in a building which none of them would think of entering if they were going out anywhere to start a sanitarium. It is a building which they would shun. I believe the building in which our students receive their training, should represent in the highest form sanitary cleanliness. The Lord has helped us in our work there, to make the best of the poor buildings. He has helped us to teach, and has given us a good clinic, and has sent patients there who are especially instructive to the students. I also believe the time has come when the Lord asks us to take a step forward, placing our work there on a basis where we will not be ashamed to have any one inspect it at any time of the year or any time of day.GCB April 17, 1901, page 288.6

    The Chair: I will call upon Dr. Paulson to add a word further on the subject of the Medical College, as he has been connected with it since its founding.GCB April 17, 1901, page 289.1

    Dr. David Paulson: I am deeply interested in our Medical College, and I think I have a right to be. About eight years ago I was in New York City taking some postgraduate work. I was connected with the International Medical Society, and associated with Dr. Dowkonnt, who had a number of medical missionaries with him. Nearly all of these medical missionary students with whom I was associated at that time are now out laboring in foreign fields all over the world.GCB April 17, 1901, page 289.2

    Dr. Dowkonnt had it in mind to form a medical missionary college, though it seemed as if there were insurmountable obstacles in the way for him to overcome. But his heart was in it, and he felt as if he must. So he made it a point to call in most of us, and asked us to pray that God would give him a medical missionary college, and to move upon the hearts of the New York Legislature to give him a charter, etc. I wrote to Dr. Kellogg, and told him that I felt sure that we were going to have a medical missionary college. Perhaps there were others who felt that before, but I felt then that it was in our very possession. But we were a small people, we were unknown to the medical profession, and we did not know how the medical profession would receive us. I came home, and had been here months, when one night while out walking on the sanitarium grounds, I met Dr. Kellogg. He said. “We did a very important thing in the medical board to-night. What do you think we did?” I said. “You founded a medical college.” He said, “How do you know; did some one tell you?” I told him that no one had told me, but that I had been looking for that. But we were very happy and were well satisfied. When we started our first class, we went down to Chicago, for it was a question whether or not the medical college would be attended, and where it would be located. But there were men and women who looked favorably upon it.GCB April 17, 1901, page 289.3

    But we are started, and have a good standing; we have a foothold; and the satisfaction of our work is increasing. We have said little about our work at Conferences, but have let it speak for itself. Mistakes have been made, but I am glad to say that there have already been two four-year classes graduated, and another class graduates in a few months. We have an old building in Chicago. We do not know how soon we will have to move out of it. It is utterly unfit for sick persons. We procured the lease because it was a dilapidated building. Some day it will be torn down, and a new building will be put up in its place. I believe that God will move upon the hearts of some people to help us secure new quarters. I trust that God is speaking to some in this audience to interest them in this project. I do not believe that our work, is finished yet, because there are great fields as yet untouched. I believe that there are yet hundreds of young men who will go to do this work.GCB April 17, 1901, page 289.4

    I hope the day will come when we will have different branches of this work, but the one here and the other in Chicago will be headquarters for some days to come. May God help us that wise steps may be taken to extend this work.GCB April 17, 1901, page 289.5

    J. H. Kellogg: How much money has been invested by Seventh-day Adventist schools? I figured up something more than half a million dollars. These schools for the training of missionaries, should say to the young men and women who come to the school. “We will not admit you unless you are going to be a missionary.” No boys and girls should go to these schools to be trained to be bookkeepers, to be merchants, and the ordinary vocations of life These schools have not, up to the present time, been different from public schools, except that Christianity was held higher, and the Bible was taught, but the course of training has been essentially that of the public school. There has been no reform in our schools, for at least a quarter of a century. We have schools that need to be reformed as much as the public schools, and this reform has only recently begun. But up to within half a dozen years our schools have not begun to keep step with the progress of reform in the world. But our schools are not reform schools, except to a limited extent.GCB April 17, 1901, page 289.6

    Here is a school for the training of missionaries. There are one hundred and twenty pupils in the schools, young men and women who have given their lives to God. We have graduated two classes. Our doctors are recognized in all the cities of this country. They can go to Canada, and are recognized in the schools there, and one of our students has been recognized in New Zealand by the medical authorities. Dr. Pomare has gone over to New Zealand as a qualified physician and has been appointed medical commissioner for the Maoris. Dr. Pomare was a capable doctor and has gone out to be a missionary to the very men who were formerly his tribesmen, and the subjects of his grandfather, who was a cannibal chief. He is recognized by the government of New Zealand. He is the first one, but it remains for the rest of our doctors to be recognized in the same way. We give all the glory to God for that. I have not done it, Dr. Holden and Dr. Paulson have not claimed to do it. I had always set my face against the opening of this school. I had often wished we had a school where we could train our own physicians, but I said we could not do it, because we were not big enough to do it. But by and by this was changed by circumstances, that came upon us as suddenly as a flash of lightning across the sky. These made it appear that the thing could be done. We had men to fill all the different chairs except the surgical chair. I went to a doctor in Chicago, and said. “How shall we carry on the clinic?” He said, “I will take charge of that myself.” This man was not a member of the Christian church, but he recognized the spirit of Christianity. He came here to the sanitarium, and just before going away, he came down to my office and said, “Doctor, I want to tell you that you have splendid baths here, but I do not care for them: you have a very elaborate dietary here, and have good things to eat, but I do not care for these; you have a splendid gymnasium, but I do not care for that; but I find here something that is a great deal better. I find a spirit, that, if you had no dietary, no baths, no facilities for treatment or electrical appliances, is worth all that you institution stands for. I went to the office, and told Mr. Murphy not to charge him anything. Afterward the doctor said to Mr. Murphy, “How much is my bill?” He was told that there was no bill at all. He put down twenty-five dollars and went away. He wanted to contribute something.GCB April 17, 1901, page 289.7

    This doctor took hold of the work. “Doctor,” I said, “there is no clinic there; there is nothing but the bare room.” He said that he would go there, and would sit there two hours a day for a year. That doctor’s time is worth twenty-five dollars an hour. But he came. How much did he charge for his service in filling a full professorship in the college? He said that when he got worn out once in a while, he would like to go over to the sanitarium and get a bath. Said he, “If I can do that, it is all the salary I shall ask.” Not many people work as cheap as that. But he went on another year. Then he came to me and said, “Doctor, I have got to go to Europe, and it will cost me about two hundred and fifty dollars to go over. I have to go on professional matters. I am not rich. I have given away everything, and I do not have much time to work for myself. If you will pay my fare over to Europe, that is all the salary I want.” So we were glad to do that Two hundred and fifty dollars for a professorship is all we had to pay that man who was a professor in another college that is a great deal larger than ours, the University of Illinois, and stands there as professor in that big school while being professor in our little school. He is not ashamed to have his name given in our catalogues and to have his name published in the United States as a professor in our college, though he is not a believer in Christianity. There are men and women who have worldwide reputations; they tell you what they are doing. I said to Dr. Holmes, “What makes you so much interested in our work in our college?” He said, “It is just this thing: It is what you are doing; it is the purpose of your school; it is the fact that these young men and women are giving their lives to this work, and I want to be willing to give a little of my time. I am willing to give a little of my time when they have given their lives.”GCB April 17, 1901, page 290.1

    I ask you, my friends, what are you going to do? This denomination has not done a thing, has not raised a penny, has not invested a single penny, in the medical missionary college. We want one hundred thousand dollars. We are not going to be bashful. We are going to ask for what we want. We need a hundred thousand dollars. We need twice that sum. You ask what we would do with it? We would put up a building in Chicago. We would have to build a proper kind of building in that city. We must build right in the center of the city where the poor are, where the people need to be helped. We must not be far away from hospitals and other colleges, because we want to start a clinic. We want to start a clinic where we can invite the poor to come in. We want $100,000. But you say, “This is an awful sum.” Well, I ask, How much did you invest in College View?GCB April 17, 1901, page 290.2

    Voice: One hundred and ninety thousand dollars.GCB April 17, 1901, page 290.3

    J. H. Kellogg: I called it one hundred and eighty thousand dollars. I have figured up, and I find that we have about $560,000 invested in educational institutions. We have about a million dollars in printing houses, and we have about the same invested in sanitariums; but we have not a single dollar invested in medical colleges.GCB April 17, 1901, page 290.4

    Voice: Here is two dollars [passing up the money].GCB April 17, 1901, page 290.5

    Dr. J. H. Kellogg. Excuse me, here we have some money for this purpose. And here comes $5 more. It is not invested yet, but it is going to be. And there is more coming; I believe that we shall have that $100,000. I do not believe that we can get it from this audience, for we are all poor-poor doctors or poor preachers, one or the other. But the Lord has plenty of money, my friends. There is no doubt about it. The Lord owns the cattle on a thousand hills, and all the gold mines. And the Lord knows where the gold is. He will send somebody to help us out. I know of $10,000 that can be brought into this medical college. I know of two or three such sums to be had, if we will only say we will go ahead with the enterprise. The men who will give ten thousand dollars or fifteen thousand dollars will not give it unless something is to be done.GCB April 17, 1901, page 290.6

    here comes some more money,—twenty-five dollars. Elder Loughborough says, as my father said when he put a few hundred dollars into the sanitarium when it started, “I will venture this much, sink or swim,”—he says, “I will put in ten dollars to swim.”

    Mrs. A. S. Pippy, of Newfoundland: I will give fifty dollars for the medical college on condition that a nurse or a doctor be sent to Newfoundland to take up work there.GCB April 17, 1901, page 290.7

    Dr. Kellogg: A lady from Newfoundland gives fifty dollars on condition that a nurse or doctor be sent to that field. Of course I can not say very much now in regard to that, but we will send doctors or nurses there just as soon as we are able to. I did not intend to ask for money here to-day, my friends. It appears that our people have more money than they know what to do with. We have already more than $100. I want you to open up your hearts to this medical college, and let it in.GCB April 17, 1901, page 290.8

    Dr. Paulson volunteered to go down to our building at Chicago two years ago and stay there, and demonstrate that it was possible to live in that place, so that everybody else would not get up and flee. I was afraid for his life. He came near dying, partly in consequence of the bad conditions. The plumbing was all worn out, it was an old building, fifty or one hundred years old. Made away back in the ‘30’s somewhere. You may say, Why don’t you get another building?—Because a decent building would cost $500 a month. Who has that money to pay? The Medical Missionary Board is a pauper, and has no money. And so we must get along the best we can.GCB April 17, 1901, page 290.9

    We want to have a medical college in which our students can properly represent the great principles of this work, where they can be taught in decency and order. We must have something better than we now have, where we can have hydriatic clinic, electricity, and massage, where the poor can come in, where we can have a course of lectures on these rational principles, and invite the doctors and medical students to come in. Let them come there just as freely as our own students, and just scatter broadcast these principles of righteous living, and of rational treatment in which our own students are instructed. Now we can give courses of lectures which will be largely attended; so while we are making one rational physician for ourselves, we can be making thirty or forty who will go out and incorporate these principles in their own practice.GCB April 17, 1901, page 290.10

    We have a little business to do this afternoon, and so call for the report of the Committee on Nominations. Elder Wilcox will present the report.GCB April 17, 1901, page 290.11

    F. M. Wilcox [reading]: “Your Committee on Nominations would respectfully recommend the following: To fill, expiring vacancies on the board of the International Medical Missionary and Benevolent Association: A. G. Daniells, O. A. Olsen, H. W. Cottrell, and W. T. Knox.”GCB April 17, 1901, page 290.12

    The Chair: You have heard this report. What will you do with it? The board of the Medical Missionary and Benevolent Association consists of nine members. There are five doctors on the board at the present time, and there are four members to be elected here at this meeting, for two years.GCB April 17, 1901, page 290.13

    The names were again read, as follows: A. G. Daniells, O. A. Olsen, H. W. Cottrell, W. T. Knox.GCB April 17, 1901, page 291.1

    The Chair: They represent the clerical side of this work, and represent the particular sections,—the Atlantic Coast, The Pacific Coast, England, and America in general. What will you do with this report?GCB April 17, 1901, page 291.2

    E. T. Russell: I move that the report be adopted.GCB April 17, 1901, page 291.3

    J. W. Westphal: I second the motion.GCB April 17, 1901, page 291.4

    The question was called on each name, and all were voted affirmatively.GCB April 17, 1901, page 291.5

    The Chair: All of these persons have been unanimously elected, thus making the board complete.GCB April 17, 1901, page 291.6

    F. M. Wilcox [reading]: “For members of the constituent body of the New England Sanitarium and Benevolent Association; A. E. Place, F. W. Mace, Thomas Davis, Solon Farnsworth, Charles R. Brown, E. P. Farnsworth, Frederick Griggs. For president of the constituent board, H. W. Cottrell; for secretary of the constituent body, W. A. Wilcox.”GCB April 17, 1901, page 291.7

    The Chair: It is the duty of this association to nominate the persons who shall constitute the members of the constituent body of the South Lancaster Sanitarium. The South Lancaster corporation must elect its own members, according to the laws of the State of Massachusetts. This body can only nominate them in accordance with the laws of the corporation. What will you do with this report?GCB April 17, 1901, page 291.8

    Moved by A. G. Daniells, seconded by R. M. Kilgore, that the report be adopted as a whole.GCB April 17, 1901, page 291.9

    Carried.GCB April 17, 1901, page 291.10

    F. M. Wilcox [reading]: For electors of the Nebraska Sanitarium and Benevolent Association, the first or short term, of one year, J. M. Craig, Bert Glascock, Wm. Diamond, A. R. Henry; for the second term, consisting of two years, H. D. Farnsworth, H. E. Kirk, F. M. Wilcox, J. T. Boetcher; for the third term, of three years, A. N. Loper, J. W. Shively, J. H. Kellogg, and T. J. Allen.GCB April 17, 1901, page 291.11

    J. H. Kellogg: The situation with reference to this portion of the report is exactly the same as in relation to the South Lancaster matter, and we can simply nominate these persons; but they must be elected by the elective body of the Nebraska Sanitarium corporation. What will you do with this report?GCB April 17, 1901, page 291.12

    Moved by J. W. Westphal, supported, and voted, that this report be adopted.GCB April 17, 1901, page 291.13

    The report of the Committee to nominate six medical members of the General Conference Committee being called for, was submitted, as follows:—GCB April 17, 1901, page 291.14

    F. M. Wilcox [reading]: As members of the General Conference Committee, J. H. Kellogg, David Paulson, A. J. Read, H. F. Rand, W. W. Prescott, and J. C. Ottosen.GCB April 17, 1901, page 291.15

    J. H. Kellogg: I will ask Elder Daniells to take the chair.GCB April 17, 1901, page 291.16

    The Chair: You have heard the report; what is your pleasure? This report is on the six names of persons that the Medical Missionary and Benevolent Association elects for the General Conference Committee. You have heard the report; what will you do with it?GCB April 17, 1901, page 291.17

    It was moved by J. H. Morrison, and seconded, that the report be adopted.GCB April 17, 1901, page 291.18

    The names were here reread, the question being called on each name as read.GCB April 17, 1901, page 291.19

    The Chair: Are you ready to take action? Those who favor the motion to adopt the report, please say, Aye. Contrary, No. The motion is carried unanimously.GCB April 17, 1901, page 291.20

    F. M. Wilcox: I would say that another vote becomes necessary in order to get in the legal meeting of the Colorado Medical Missionary and Benevolent Association. I move that the biennial session of the Colorado Medical Missionary and Benevolent Association be appointed to convene at the Tabernacle, Battle Creek, Mich., April 16, at 4:30 P. M., and that the Secretary of this Association be instructed to notify the president of the General Conference Association of this appointment without delay.GCB April 17, 1901, page 291.21

    A. T. Jones: I second the motion.GCB April 17, 1901, page 291.22

    J. H. Kellogg: This is necessary to comply with the legal requirements of the statutes, and the articles of incorporation of this Association. Are you ready for the question. All in favor of this motion say, Aye. Opposed, No. It is carried.GCB April 17, 1901, page 291.23

    A. G. Daniells: There is a little confusion caused by the reports here. There are two committees at work for nominating officers for members of the General Conference Committee. One was appointed by the house here, and the other by the Medical Missionary and Benevolent Association. It transpires that the Committee on Nominations appointed by the Conference have nominated W. W. Prescott on the General Conference side. His name is among those who have been nominated. Those on the committee were a little delicate about announcing it here before the report was made, but I think that under the circumstances, it is perfectly proper that it should be explained, that the house should know. It seems to me that it is only due this committee, who have been working for the Conference, and have this name to report in their plan, that this matter should be understood.GCB April 17, 1901, page 291.24

    F. M. Wilcox: I would say that this matter was considered by the committee, and the names of Professor Prescott and Dr. Kress were under consideration. If the name of Professor Prescott was thrown out of the nomination, it was understood that the name of Dr. Kress would be the next name preferred by the Committee on Nominations.GCB April 17, 1901, page 291.25

    W. C. White: I would be glad to see it go on record that the Medical Missionary and Benevolent Association has nominated Professor Prescott, and that the General Conference has chosen Dr. Kress. Let us stand by what we have done, and let the General Conference reach over into the company of physicians as the Medical Missionary and Benevolent Association has reached over into the ministry.GCB April 17, 1901, page 291.26

    J. H. Kellogg: A motion to adjourn until 3:30 P. M. to-morrow is in order.GCB April 17, 1901, page 291.27

    It was moved and seconded by O. A. Olsen, that adjournment take place until 3:30 P. M., April 16. Benediction was pronounced by A. T. Jones.GCB April 17, 1901, page 291.28

    Carried.GCB April 17, 1901, page 291.29

    J. H. KELLOGG, Chairman.
    A. J. READ, Secretary.

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