The Kellogg Alpha Apostasy

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The Kellogg Alpha Apostasy

• By
• Pastor Idel Suárez, Jr., Ph.D., R.D.
• Medical Missionary
• Gardiner, Maine
• September 24, 2005

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The Western Health Reform Institute

• Founded in 1866 in Battle Creek, Michigan
• James Ellen White were founding members
• Stock was sold only to SDA members
• It was a home for the sick,, where they could be
  treated for their diseases, and also learn how to
  take care of themselves so as to prevent disease.
• It was a sanitarium not a hospital

Source SDA Bible Commentary, volume 10, p. 722.
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John Harvey Kellogg, M.D.

• Born in 1862
• One of 16 children
• Taught school at 16
• Finished high school in one year
• Graduated from Medical School at 24
• Became Medical Director of SDA health institutions

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His Family Major Contributions

• Married a dietitian named Ella Eaton
• She was a 7th Day Baptist
• Raised 40 children
• Strong advocate of temperance and vegetarianism
• Invented cornflakes and meat substitutes
• Wrote over 50 books
• Performed thousands of surgeries

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Battle Creek Sanitarium

• Reorganized on July 1, 1898
• Had 700 patients and 1000 employees
• Was the largest medical institution in the world

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Medical Surgical Buildingsof the Battle Creek
Sanitarium

• School of Nursing
• American Medical Missionary College
• Battle Creek Food Company
• School of dietetics
• Health Reformer which later became Good Health
  magazine

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Education Prevention
Teaching How to Cook
Teaching Breathing Exercises
Teaching Exercise
Teaching Hydrotherapy
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The Sanitariums Sins
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Words of Warning on Flesh Foods

• Letter written from Sydney Australia to Dr. J.H.
  Kellogg, July 26, 1896
• The Lord would bring His people into a position
  where they will not touch or taste the flesh of
  dead animals.
• I write to you, my brother, that the giving of
  prescriptions for the eating of flesh of animals
  may no more be practiced in our sanitariums.
  There is no excuse for this.
• Let us make known in our institutions that there
  is no longer a meat table.
• If patronage is less, so let it be.
• (Kress Collection, page 32.)

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Words of Warning on Fashion

• Dress is not in accordance with the fashions of
  the world, that is why it is considered
  objectionable.
• Diseases of every type is brought upon the body
  through unhealthful fashionable style of dress
• And the fact should be made prominent that a
  reform must take place, before treatment will
  effect a cure.
• Testimony to the Physicians Helpers of the
  Sanitarium, pages 58, 74.

• There must be a change in that Sanitarium. I lift
  up my voice in protest against the course pursued
  there in conforming to the habits and customs of
  the world.
• Those who are connected with that institution
  should be examples as reformers.
• Dr. Kellogg took his stand against the dress
  reform, he made a wrong move

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Words of Warning on Worldly Amusements

• If the Sanitarium shall retrograde as rapidly in
  the future as it has done in the past, in
  introducing worldly amusements and theatrical
  performances, the Lord will withdraw His
  protecting care from that institution.
• His frown is upon all these things.
• As soon as these entertainments are introduced,
  the objections to theater-going are removed from
  many minds, and the plea that moral and
  high-toned scenes are to be acted at the theater,
  breaks down the last barrier.

Testimonies for Physicians and Helpers of the
Sanitarium, pages 69-70.
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The Battle Creek Sanitarium

• Burned down on February 18, 1902
• No lives were lost
• E. G. White had foretold its demise
• It was a foreshadow of what would happen to the
  church spiritually

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Ruin of Jerusalem Compared to Battle Creek

• I have been looking over some of my writings,
  and I find that warnings on this point were given
  years ago. It is plainly stated that the
  buildings in Battle Creek should not be enlarged,
  that building should not be added to building to
  increase facilities there. We were instructed not
  to accumulate interests in that one place, but to
  enlarge our sphere of labor.
• There was danger that Battle Creek would become
  as Jerusalem of old--a powerful center. If we do
  not heed these warnings, the evils that ruined
  Jerusalem will come upon us. Pride,
  self-exaltation, neglect of the poor, and
  partiality to the wealthy--these were the sins of
  Jerusalem.
• Today when large interests are built up in one
  place, the workers are tempted to become lifted
  up in selfishness and pride. When they yield to
  this temptation they are not laborers together
  with God. 8 T p. 133.

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Sanitarium Fall Was Due to Unbelief

• If we yield to this temptation, it will bring
  upon us the same perils that fell upon ancient
  Jerusalem. We shall fail to know God and to
  represent Him in character.
• We need to watch ourselves closely lest we fall
  because of unbelief, as did the Jews. We are to
  work unselfishly. We are to feel a deep interest
  in the establishment and growth of other
  institutions besides those over which we have
  supervision.
• I sincerely wish that the sanitarium were miles
  away from Battle Creek. From the light given me
  of God, I know this would be better for its
  spirituality and usefulness. 8 T p. 134.

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The New Sanitarium

• The new sanitarium had 5 floors
• It was 550 feet (167 m) long
• It had two anexes which were an additional 500
  feet (153 m) long
• It had marble floors with ornate mosaics
• Capacity for gt1,000 patients
• They contracted the same Italian artist who
  worked on the Library of Congress

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Lavishly Extravagant Display
The Lobby
The Dinning Hall
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A Call for Reformation

• A Reformation Needed. I have been
• instructed that a reformation is needed
• 8 T p. 138.
• Unless there is a reformation, calamity will
  overtake the publishing house, and the world will
  know the reason. 8 T p. 96 (November 1901)

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The Review and Heraldthe largest publishing
house in the world in 1900
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• The Review Herald Publishing House
• was destroyed by fire on December 30, 1902
• Dr. Kelloggs Living Temple was on the presses
• Proof that the reformation was not realized

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Elder Waggoner Jones sided with Dr. Kellogg

• While living in the Carroll Manor House, Ellen
  White received a vision in which she seemed to be
  in a large company. "One not known to those
  present stepped forward" and sounded a message of
  warning to Dr. Paulson and Dr. Sadler, urging
  them to break their bonds with Dr. Kellogg and to
  be careful not to spoil their experience with
  philosophy and vain deceit. "Cut loose, cut loose
  is my message," she wrote in a letter to the
  physicians.--Letter 279, 1904.
• The text of the letter was much the same as in
  the letter addressed to Elders Jones and
  Waggoner, who were now associated with Dr.
  Kellogg in Battle Creek. The messenger who was
  speaking to them indicated that these men were in
  a mist and a fog, unaware of the seductive
  sentiments in The Living Temple. She quoted 1
  Timothy 41, "Be not deceived many will 'depart
  from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits,
  and doctrines of devils.'" She added, "We have
  now before us the alpha of this danger. The omega
  will be of a most startling nature."--Letter 263,
  1904.
• 5BIO 348.4

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Alonso T. Jones
but when Living Temple came out, and some of our
ministers told me that there was in it nothing
but what I had been teaching all my life, I saw
how great the danger was. I saw that blindness
had fallen upon some who had long known the
truth. I pray that the Lord will open the eyes
of these ministers, that they may see the
differences between light and darkness, and
between truth and error. 1SAT 343.5
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Elder E. J. Waggoner, M.D.

• Accepted the teachings of the Living Temple
• Sided with Dr. Kellogg
• Became estranged from his wife
• Divorced and Remarried
• Abandoned the church

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The General Conference President

• A. G. Daniells
• Rejected the Living Temple ideas
• Worried about A.T. Jones who was siding with Dr.
  Kellogg
• Sought Sister Whites help in meeting the crisis

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From Elmshaven
Sister White sent messages of warning and
admonition.
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The Alpha of a Train of Heresies

• One, and another, and still another are presented
  to me as having been led to accept the pleasing
  fables that mean the sanctification of sin.
  Living Temple contains the alpha of a train of
  heresies. 11MR 247.2
• I was forbidden to talk with Dr. Kellogg on this
  subject, because it is not a subject to be talked
  about. And I was instructed that certain
  sentiments in Living Temple were the Alpha of a
  long list of deceptive theories. SAT 343.4

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Three Attacks of the Alpha Apostasyor Living
Temple
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The 1901 General Conference Session in Battle
Creek with Ellen G. White
preaching
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William C. White

• I did not read Living Temple, though I had it in
  my library. 1SAT 341.3
• Finally my son said to me, "Mother, you ought to
  read at least some parts of the book, that you
  may see whether they are in harmony with the
  light that God has given you."
• He sat down beside me, and together we read the
  preface, and most of the first chapter, and also
  paragraphs in other chapters.

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The Living Temple Contains the Alpha Apostasy

• Living Temple contains the alpha of these
  theories. I knew that the omega would follow in a
  little while and I trembled for our people.
• I knew that I must warn our brethren and sisters
  not to enter into controversy over the presence
  and personality of God. The statements made in
  Living Temple in regard to this point are
  incorrect. 1SM 203.3.

• As we read, I recognized the very sentiments
  against which I had been bidden to speak in
  warning during the early days of my public
  labors.
• When I first left the State of Maine, it was to
  go through Vermont and Massachusetts, to bear a
  testimony against these sentiments.

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Calling Dr. Kellogg to Repentance

• She also wrote to Dr. Kellogg, commenting on the
  Berrien Springs meeting and its aftermath (5BIO
  348.4)
• You might have gone from the Berrien Springs
  meeting a very different man had you understood
  the real situation, had you realized that Satan
  in a masterly way was playing the game of life
  for your soul. Had you seen your peril as it was
  presented to me, you would have fallen on the
  Rock, and been broken.
• Your only hope is to fall on the Rock. If you
  do not, it will fall on you, and will break you
  beyond remedy.--Letter 271, 1904. (5BIO 349.1)

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Kelloggs Apostasy

• In 1904, Dr. Kellogg left with
• The Battle Creek Sanitarium
• The Battle Creek Food Company
• Mexican Health Institute
• 4,000 persons followed him including many
  physicians
• 1907, Dr. Kellogg was disfellowshipped

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The Omega Apostasy

• In the book Living Temple there is presented the
  alpha of deadly heresies.
• The omega will follow, and will be received by
  those who are not willing to heed the warning God
  has given. 1SM, p. 200

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The Great War or World War I
The Omega Apostasy was liberty of conscience to
transgress Gods law.
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Alpha and Omega Apostasycompared and contrasted

• Dr. J.H. Kellogg works against the Testimonies
• PantheismGod is in everything
• 4,000 leave
• Treated the Sabbath lightly
• Abandoned Dress Reform
• Adopted worldly amusements
• Served Flesh Foods at the Sanitarium
• Pride was the root of the fall

• General Conference fulfills the Testimonies
  predictions of apostasy
• Liberty of conscienceeach conscience is God
• 98 of the church goes into apostasy
• Transgressed the Sabbath in military service
• Wore a military uniform
• Engaged in world war
• Ate flesh floods at the front line and in the
  military
• Pride was the root of the fall

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Liberty of Conscience--Was granted to go to War

• We grant to each of our church members absolute
  liberty to serve his country, at all time and in
  all places, in accord with the dictates of his
  personal conscientious conviction.RH March 6,
  1924 volume 101, pages 4,5.

• The nominal SDA Church, not God, granted this
  liberty to go and engage to war
• It applies to all time including the 6th and 7th
  plague with the Battle of Armageddon and the war
  of Gog and Magog
• It applies to all places including Armageddon and
  around the city of God after the millennium

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Liberty of Conscience condemned in the Scriptures

• I Corinthians 89 But take heed lest by any
  means this liberty of yours become a
  stumblingblock to them that are weak.
• Galatians 513 For, brethren, ye have been
  called unto liberty only use not liberty for
  an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one
  another.
• I Peter 216 As free, and not using your
  liberty for a cloak of maliciousness, but as the
  servants of God.

• Jeremiah 3417 Therefore thus saith the LORD
  Ye have not hearkened unto me, in proclaiming
  liberty, every one to his brother, and every man
  to his neighbour behold, I proclaim a liberty
  for you, saith the LORD, to the sword, to the
  pestilence, and to the famine and I will make
  you to be removed into all the kingdoms of the
  earth.

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Liberty of Conscience Grantedwas to transgress
Gods law

• I Peter 219 While they promise them liberty,
  they themselves are the servants of corruption
  for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he
  brought in bondage.

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Testimonies on Liberty of Conscience

• Satan has continued with men the same policy
  which he pursued with the angels. His spirit now
  reigns in the children of disobedience. Like him
  they seek to break down the restraints of the law
  of God, and promise men liberty through
  transgression of its precepts. Reproof of sin
  still arouses the spirit of hatred and
  resistance. When God's messages of warning are
  brought home to the conscience, Satan leads men
  to justify them-selves, and to seek the sympathy
  of others in their course of sin. GC (1888), page
  500.2

• Christ gave no ecclesiastical right to forgive
  sin, nor to sell indulgences, that men may sin
  without incurring the displeasure of God, nor did
  he give his servants liberty to accept a gift or
  bribe for cloaking sin, that it may escape
  merited censure.Spirit of Prophecy, volume 3,
  page 245, (1878).
• And was all this suffering undergone to give men
  the liberty to transgress the law of God?--No,
  no.ST, December 9, 1897 par. 7.

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• Church Leaders Say "We're Sorry" German and
  Austrian churches apologize for Holocaust
  actionsBY MARK A. KELLNER, assistant director
  for news and information of the General
  Conference Communication Department
• During World War I a portion of the German
  Adventist church had split off, opposing any
  military service. This led the National
  Socialists in 1936 to ban the so-called "Reform
  Movement" during their time in power. Brugger
  said concern over a Nazi closure of the main
  Adventist churches may have weighed on leaders in
  that era.
• "I think during these times the official leaders
  of our church were afraid of losing the control
  over the church and losing the church because the
  political authorities had already . . .
  confused our church with the Reform movement,"
  he explained. "I think our leaders were afraid to
  lose the official recognition of our church, so
  therefore maybe they were not as faithful to
  our beliefs as would have been necessary."
• We had to realize that one wrong statement, one
  wrong move by a person meant he could end up in a
  concentration camp," Pöhler said of that era.
  "That was the reason why we excluded and
  disfellowshipped Jewish-born Adventists from our
  midst If a local church had not done this, the
  Nazis would have closed the church, taken the
  elder to prison, and it would have meant the
  whole church would be forbidden."

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The Iceberg Allegory

• One night a scene was clearly presented before
  me. A vessel was upon the waters, in a heavy fog.
  Suddenly the lookout cried, "Iceberg just ahead!"
  There, towering high above the ship, was a
  gigantic iceberg.
• An authoritative voice cried out, "Meet it!"
  There was not a moment's hesitation. It was a
  time for instant action. The engineer put on full
  steam, and the man at the wheel steered the ship
  straight into the iceberg.
• With a crash she struck the ice. There was a
  fearful shock, and the iceberg broke into many
  pieces, falling with a noise like thunder to the
  deck. The passengers were violently shaken by the
  force of the collisions, but no lives were lost.
  The vessel was injured, but not beyond repair.
  She rebounded from the contact, trembling from
  stem to stern, like a living creature. Then she
  moved forward on her way. 1SM 205.3, 206 (1904).

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The Titanic Allegory
An iceberg drowned the Titanic What icebergs
do you have in your life?
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Before the Fall is Pride

• Proverbs 1618-19 Pride goeth before
  destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.
  
• Better it is to be of an humble spirit with the
  lowly, than to divide the spoil with the proud.
• Ezekiel 306 Thus saith the LORD They also
  that uphold Egypt shall fall and the pride of
  her power shall come down from the tower of
  Syene shall they fall in it by the sword, saith
  the Lord GOD.

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Jesus is ComingAre you ready to sink your pride?