A Response to an Urgent Testimony

By Doctor Charles Stewart

 

17
Comparing Dr. Cole with Mrs. E. G. White's Health Reform

 

Your writings deal quite extensively with the subject of health reform, and you are quoted by Seventh day Adventists as having special light from God on this subject. We have read everything we can find from you pertaining to it, and conclude from what we have read that you wish to be understood as having special light from God on this point—are we correct in this conclusion?

We have read also Dr. L. B. Cole's "Philosophy of Health," published first in 1853, a book which was so popular that it went through twenty-six editions and thirty-five thousand copies were disposed of. In your works we have not found a single essential point with reference to health reform which is not to be found in Dr. Cole's and other books written several years before you wrote anything on the subject. Since your writings on this point contain so much that is identical with that which is contained in books by other authors, are we not to infer that the special light you have upon this subject came, through your reading Dr. Cole's, Dr. Jackson's, and other writings on this particular topic, and also as in the case where you saw it in a new light when the selfishness of taking the lives of animals to gratify a perverted appetite was presented to you by a Catholic woman?

That Dr. Cole recognized God as the author of our being and the One who controls our bodies is evidenced from the following written in 1853:

Cole's Philosophy of Health, p. 8, 26th Ed., 1853:	(Ellen White) Unpublished Testimonies, Aug. 5, 1896:
"The laws which govern our constitutions are divine; and to their violation there is affixed a penalty, which must sooner or later be met. And it is as truly a sin to violate one of these laws as it is to violate one of the ten commandments."	"The laws governing the physical nature are as truly divine in their origin and character as the law of the ten commandments. 1 Vol. 11, p. 70: "It is just as much a sin to violate the law of our being as to break one of the ten commandments."

 

Next: Mrs. E. G. White's Inconsistent and Contradictory Testimonies

Contents

Preface

1. A Response to an Urgent Testimony from Mrs. E. G. White
    
2. Mrs. White's Letter to the Sanitarium Workers
    
3. "I Am Not A Prophet"
    
4. Workers are not to Sign A Contract
    
5. The Sanitarium is not A Denominational Institution
    
6. Dr. Kellogg Does and Does Not Believe The Testimonies
    
7. Testimonies For and Against Butter
    
8. A Catholic Woman Led Mrs. White to Quit The Use of Meat
    
9. The Use of Medicines
    
10. Influenced By Others
     
11. Erection of Buildings In Chicago
     
12. Judge Arthur's Reply
     
13. Testimonies For and Against Dr. Kellogg
     
14. Rebuilding The Battle Creek Sanitarium
     
15. Facts About Mrs. White's Book "Sketches From The Life of Paul" (Plagiarism)
     
16. How Mrs. White Paid Tithes
     
17. Comparing Dr. Cole with Mrs. E. G. White's Health Reform
     
18. Mrs. E. G. White's Inconsistent and Contradictory Testimonies