A Response to an Urgent Testimony
By Doctor Charles Stewart
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The Sanitarium is not A Denominational Institution
Testimony to — and Sanitarium Board, Jan. 11, 1899:
"Our brethren in America who are engaged in medical missionary work can, by appealing to the outside people, obtain because theirs is not a denominational work.
Life Sketches of James White and Ellen G. White, page 382:
"Though founded and managed by Seventh-day Adventists, the Sanitarium is not conducted on a denominational basis."
Testimony dated Aug. 21, 1902:
"It has been stated that the Battle Creek Sanitarium is not denominational. But if ever an institution was established to be denominational in every sense of the word, this Sanitarium was."
How can the work of the Sanitarium Board be "not a denominational work" in any sense of the word whatever, since the institution which it conducts as is stated, was established to be denominational in every sense of the word"! What do these statements mean?