A Few Excerpts

A few excerpts from this address are here given:SHM 316.1

“It is God in the sunflower that makes it do this [follow the sun]. ...SHM 316.2

“There is an intelligence that is present in the plant, in all vegetation. ...SHM 316.3

“We can see there is a divine Master there [in the protoplasm cells of the plant], who is certainly directing every movement. ...SHM 316.4

“God makes you now just as much as He made Adam; God is working in us today in exactly the same way that He worked in making Adam. ...SHM 316.5

“God is within. ... There is an intelligence, a power, a will within, that is commanding the functions of our bodies and controlling them. ...SHM 316.6

“Wherever God’s life is, God Himself is. You cannot separate God and His life. That is the reason why God is everywhere. ...SHM 316.7

“God is in me, and everything I do is God’s power; every single act is a creative act of God.”—Ibid.SHM 316.8

Such views of the Creator, set forth by a few connected with the ministry and leadership of Seventh-day Adventists, might lead to personal discussion, but no one at that time fully understood the implications involved. As long as it remained more or less of an individual interpretation of the nature of God, it might without controversy find utterance in private discussions, in periodical articles, and even in general gatherings. But a series of events soon made of this matter a sharp issue that threatened to disrupt the church, and which proved to be the outstanding feature in the final separation of the sanitarium at Battle Creek from the denomination, together with the physician whose name had for many years been linked with the institution.SHM 316.9