Dr. Kellogg’s Endorsement

In 1863 health reform was “almost totally ignored” by Adventists and “the world at large.”MOL 291.5

The few who were advocating “reform” included with their insights “the most patent and ... disgusting errors.”MOL 291.6

No one before Ellen White’s messages had presented “a systematic and harmonious body of hygienic truths, free from patent errors, and consistent with the Bible and the principles of the Christian religion.”MOL 291.7

Thousands changed lifelong habits after reading these messages because they recognized not only the inherent harmony of these truths, but also their divine endorsement.MOL 291.8

Ellen White’s principles have stood “the test of time and experience.”MOL 291.9

Many of those principles, ridiculed or ignored in 1863, had become accepted in 1890.MOL 291.10

Remarkable scientific discoveries since 1863 had only strongly fortified those principles, without “the overthrow of a single principle.”MOL 291.11

Divine guidance is “as much needed” in distinguishing truth from error as “in the evolution of new truths.”MOL 291.12

This nearly thirty-year record gives “unmistakable evidence of divine insight and direction“: in the midst of “confused and conflicting teachings” whereby a person “making no claims to scientific knowledge ... should organize, from the confused and error-tainted mass of ideas a body of hygienic principles so harmonious, so consistent, and so genuine.”MOL 291.13