Ellen White didn't
just provide instruction
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to the church and
individuals in it,
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but she also received visions
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that dealt with real
life issues and events
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in contemporary
society in her day.
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She lived during the civil
war and received visions on this
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before and during the war.
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If we rewind a few years we
see that the great awakening
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was linked with
the abolition movement.
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And in fact all the
early Adventist pioneers
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were abolitionists.
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The issue of slavery would
come to a head in the civil war
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and God would have His say
on this terrible institution.
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South Carolina
would be the first state
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to secede on the
20th of December, 1860.
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And 23 days later,
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Ellen White would have
her first civil war vision
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in Parkville,
Michigan, here in this church.
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It's unlikely that she knew
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that in the three
days before her vision,
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three more states would secede,
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but either way it
will be three months
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before the civil war started
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when the
confederate forces fired
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on Fort Sumter in South Carolina
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after the union forces
had previously taken it over.
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The conventional
wisdom in the North
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was that there
would be no civil war
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or if that there was,
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it would be extremely short
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with a quick
victory for the union.
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Ellen White correctly predicted
that there would be war,
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that there would be a long war
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and that people in the audience
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that day would
lose sons in the war.
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Her second civil
war vision happened here
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in the Roosevelt
Seventh-day Adventist Church
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in New York State
on August 3rd, 1861.
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She was standing
behind this very pulpit,
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though it would
have been located
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on the other side of the church.
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She saw that slavery was a sin
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and that upholding it
was in direct contrast
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to the teachings of Christ.
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She also saw that God
was using the civil war
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to punish both sides.
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The South for practicing slavery
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and the North
for so long suffering
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its overreaching and
overbearing influence.
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Perhaps most fascinating of all
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was a insight into
the battle of Manassas,
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sometimes called
the Battle of Bull Run.
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On July the 21st, 1861,
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the northern
troops approached Manassas
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for the first time,
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expecting a swift victory
as they were in the ascendency.
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At one point in the
battle they were pushing ahead
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when as Ellen White describes,
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an angel descended from
heaven to the battlefield
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and waved his hand backwards.
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Instantly there was
confusion in the ranks.
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The northern forces
thought they were in retreat
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when it was not so in reality.
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But a retreat commenced.
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Lieutenant Colonel WW Blackwood,
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writing later says that,
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"The lines of blue that
had been so well defined
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and unbroken suddenly
became like a swarm of bees
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running away as
fast as they could."
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Many American
civil war historians
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recognize a mysterious
element in this battle,
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though virtually
all understandably fail
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to see a supernatural
element in its genesis.
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Today at the
battlefield of Manassas,
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you can see the various
plaques that dot the field
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that recount the sudden
retreat of the Northern troops
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and an unlikely victory
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that was won that
day for the South.
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Then her angel explained that,
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"God had this
nation in his own hand
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and would not allow victories
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to be gained
faster than He ordained."
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The North was not to be allowed
to win a quick decisive battle
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thus bringing an
abrupt end to the war
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because it would be punished
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for condoning
slavery before the war
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and also for
not making abolition
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the principal
ethical issue in the war.
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This vision shows
how God involves Himself
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in the affairs of men
and does not stand idly by
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as we sometimes feel.
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The prophetic gift was given
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to address a major social
and political issue of the day
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showing the relevancy
and the practical side of it.
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Today there are some
that say as Christians,
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we shouldn't get
involved in social issues
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but should just
preach the gospel.
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But whilst preaching the gospel
we should seek to do justly,
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love mercy, and
walk humbly with our God.
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Some of the issues
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that have been
around for centuries
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are still around in our day.
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And as Christians
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we should seek
to fight injustice
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and seek mercy for others.
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May our religion be practical
and meet the needs of society,
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demonstrating the love
of God wherever we are.
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The Adventist
Church was in its infancy
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with a membership that was
only in the tens of thousands
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and yet it had
already made ventures
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into the publishing
work and the health work.
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Despite a small
membership it would soon move
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into the
educational field as well
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with a vision far greater
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than the reality of
church life at the time.
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A school had started in
1868 by Goodloe Harper Bell
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that was supported
locally here in Battle Creek.
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But in 1872,
James and Ellen White
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would call for the
upgrading of this school
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into an advanced
educational institution
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and also for the denomination
to support the school.
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As guidance for the school,
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Ellen White wrote Testimony
for the Church, number 22,
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where she developed
the fundamental principle
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of the correlation
between the physical, mental,
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moral and religious
aspects of education.
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The Bible was not to be
just an elected option to study
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but was to be infused
throughout the whole curriculum
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eliminating the
classics as their main thrust.
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Initially the
teachers and administrators
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struggled to implement
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what they probably didn't
fully understand themselves.
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As well as making the
curriculum Bible based,
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there was also the admonition
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to include a
manual labor program.
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Education was to move away
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from the Latin
and Greek classics
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and be holistic, focusing
on character development
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and daily reminding the students
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of their obligation to God.
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To live for Him
and be a missionary
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wherever they were.
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The focus on manual
labor and missionary work
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is reflected in the
early names of these schools.
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The College of
Medical Evangelist,
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Emmanuel Missionary College.
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Southern Missionary College,
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Australasian Missionary College,
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and Oakwood Industrial School.
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The purpose was for mission.
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The name of the school
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reflected the
purpose of the church,
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to train
missionaries at home and abroad.
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The vision to start
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a comprehensive
educational system
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would mushroom and grow.
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Education is such a
key evangelistic strategy.
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The places today
where the church is stronger
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have a strong
Adventist educational system
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that is valued and
supported by the members.
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Education that recognizes
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it's not just for
academic advancement
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but that it's also
evangelistic and redemptive.
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Echoing the words
of Ellen White that,
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"Education and
redemption are one."
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The work of education
now encompasses the globe
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with the largest
Protestant school system,
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but our strength
lies not in our size,
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but in our faithfulness
to the original purpose
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of setting up the
educational school system.
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Practical education
with a clear mission focus
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was the primary
motivating factor
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rather than just
academic excellence.
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Many today do not
have the opportunity
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of an Adventist education.
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If that is you,
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then may you be a witness
in your school or university
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like the Waldensians
in the years gone by.
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Proverb says, "Train up a
child in the way he shall go
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and when he is old he
will not depart from it."
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Whether it's at Sabbath school,
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home school, or
Adventist school,
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we see that
education is vitally important
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in solidifying what we believe
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as well as giving us the
skills that we need in life.
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If you live near a
school then support it.
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Support the youth
who are attending,
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whether it's financially,
through your prayers,
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by volunteering, by working
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or in whatever way that you can.
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In July of 1849,
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James White packed
copies of the present truth
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into a borrowed carpet
bag and walked eight miles
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to Middletown, Connecticut.
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He was taking the first steps
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in what would become a
global publishing ministry.
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The publishing work
was extremely effective
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in early Adventism,
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both as a form of evangelism
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and also as
keeping a sense of cohesion
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amongst the believers.
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Prior to the
great disappointment,
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it was very important,
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and after 1848 when Ellen White
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had her vision that her
husband should start a magazine
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and that the paper
would be like streams of light
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going around the world.
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The work
increased in effectiveness.
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In 1853, the Review and
Herald Publishing Association
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bought its first printing press
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and based
itself out of the house
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that James and
Ellen White rented
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in Rochester, New York.
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It then moved to
Battle Creek, Michigan
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and continued to grow
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and things would
take a twist in the 1880s
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when James White
met a young Canadian
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named George King
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who desperately
wanted to be a preacher.
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He stayed with
them for a few weeks,
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but James White was unconvinced
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that he had what it
took to be a preacher.
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James White then
approached Brother Godsmarth
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and told him about George King
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and asked if he could
live on the farm and work
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and then maybe after a year
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he would be able
to go and preach.
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He was a tall and slim man
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and as he moved
into this new home,
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he would often
preach in the living room
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to the empty chairs.
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It was soon arranged that
he preach his first sermon
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to some of the church members,
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but it was a blundering failure
and anything but to the point.
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After a season of prayer,
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the mother of the
home stood up and said
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that he could
never be a preacher
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and that he could not
hold the attention of a crowd.
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But he could be a
fire-side preacher
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and share books and
tracks in people's homes
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and spread the message this way.
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He accepted this
as the will of God
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and the next Monday,
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he packed his
satchel full of magazines
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and took two dollars
and set off for the week.
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The next Sabbath
he was overwhelmed
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at how much God had blessed him
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and encouraged by the
people he was able to speak to
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as well as the 62
cents that he had earned.
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The next week he
was able to convert
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nearly all the
books in his bag to cash
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and soon persuaded the brethren
at the Review and Herald
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to make a special
book to use in the homes,
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Thoughts on Daniel and
Revelation by Uriah Smith.
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And so the work of
literature evangelism
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would start with a man
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who James White
didn't know what to do with.
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The work of
literature evangelism
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would grow and spread
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and become a huge
ministry in and of itself.
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Key in the early
days of our church
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as it encompassed the globe.
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The ministry is
still active today,
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both with summer programs
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with academy age young people
and university age students
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and also with full time workers.
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The story of
George King teaches us
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that whilst we may not be
able to do the exact ministry
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that we have set our hearts on,
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God may have another work for us
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that we haven't
even thought of yet
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and may use other
people to guide us there.
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When we are
humbled and teachable,
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there is no limit
to how God may use us.
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When I was growing up, if
you wanted to study history
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or do research on
a particular topic,
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there was really only
one option that we had
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and that was to read a book.
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And I never really used
to like reading that much.
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So we decided to
create a resource
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that would translate
this written information
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into the language of today.
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My name's Adam Ramdin.
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And my name is Clive Coutet.
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And we are the
cofounders of Lineage Journey.
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Back in 2016,
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I was reading The
Great Controversy,
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and I was really struggling
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to find any
relevant video resources
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that I could use
to aid me in my study.
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So I decided to approach Adam
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about the possibility
of making some videos
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on the Reformation.
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So we started
filming in the end of 2016
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and in 2017 we
released 48 videos
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that covered the
period of the early church
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all the way through to
the end of the Reformation.
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Then in 2018 and 19,
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we released another 52
episodes on church history.
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These have now been
viewed all over the world
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in over 100 countries,
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covering about 50
different languages
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and we have over 3
million views online.
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These videos have
been used as a resource
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in both secular
and Christian schools
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as well as several
church denominations
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across the globe.
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Used in Bible
studies, study groups,
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as well as play to
the general congregation.
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They also make a great
online evangelistic tool
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where people are
able to share them.
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And we've seen
them go into countries
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that we are ourselves can't go.
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Countries that are Muslim,
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countries where the
Christian message cannot go.
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One of the
challenges we have though,
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is that amongst our
team of almost ten people,
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we are all
volunteers on this project,
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sacrificing our time,
our effort, and our energy
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in order to make
these resources together.
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Just to put
things into perspective,
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each Lineage episode
as well as the filming
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takes an
additional two to three days
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in post production.
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That is a lot of
time and sacrifice
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that this team has made
00:16:40.63\00:16:41.96
in putting 100
episodes together.
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So we need to raise the funds
00:16:43.63\00:16:45.13
to cover the cost of the filming
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as well as the
continued production costs
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that come after that.
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So for as little
as one dollar a month,
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you can help us to
expand this ministry
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to create new resources
00:16:55.34\00:16:56.95
to reach more
people across the world.
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Thank you for visiting this page
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and taking the time
to watch this video.
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We really appreciate that.
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Thank you for your
support of the ministry so far
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and we ask that you
would prayerfully consider
00:17:07.16\00:17:09.29
being a partner with
us on this Patreon page.
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May God bless you
00:17:12.93\00:17:14.26
and we ask that you
continue to keep this ministry
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and our future plans in prayer.
00:17:16.63\00:17:18.37
For a long time the health work
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has been heavily
promoted in our church
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and central to our
evangelistic strategy.
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Reports today speak of
the Adventist blue zones
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and note how
Seventh-day Adventists
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live between six
and eight years longer
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than the rest of the population.
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The rates of
disease such as cancer
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and heart disease
are significantly lower
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than the rest of the population.
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And some diseases
such as lung cancer
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are almost nonexistent.
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How did this come to be?
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Was it luck? Was it chance?
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Or was it
something greater than that?
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In 1863 in Otsego, Michigan,
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Ellen White was
given her health vision
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where she was shown
things that were way ahead
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of the medical
practices of her time.
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For example, she
was shown that tobacco
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was a slow, insidious
and most malignant poison,
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common knowledge to us today.
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Yet in her time,
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the medical wisdom
would've prescribed
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or least not deterred
you from using tobacco,
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should you have any
throat or lung issues.
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It wasn't until
hundred years later
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when the surgeon
general of the United States
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finally condemned
the use of tobacco.
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The vision was
very broad in scope
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and encouraged holistic health
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and natural
preventative medicine.
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Whilst there is
always a need for acute care,
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preventative
medicine seeks to prevent
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as much as possible
disease in the body.
00:19:06.34\00:19:09.58
Under Ellen White's guidance,
they set up a health institute
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called the Western
Health Reform Institute.
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Dr. John Harvey Kellogg,
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today most famous for the world
00:19:18.39\00:19:20.49
renowned breakfast
cereals that he invented
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became the
director of this institute
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at the young age of 24.
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John Harvey
Kellogg attended some
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of the best
medical schools in his day,
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the University Medical
School in Ann Arbor, Michigan
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and the New York
University Medical College
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at Bellevue
Hospital in New York City.
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He graduated in 1875
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and would go on to be
one of the leading doctors
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in the United States,
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treating both
the rich and famous
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as well as those less fortunate.
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He changed the name
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to the Battle
Creek Health Sanitarium.
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Sanitarium is a twist
on the word sanatorium,
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which was a health
resort for invalid soldiers.
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Replacing the O with an A,
00:20:06.57\00:20:09.04
he thus created a new
word for the English language.
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He would go on to pioneer
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some of the best
medical practices of his day,
00:20:19.88\00:20:22.88
and invent some
ingenious machines
00:20:22.92\00:20:25.22
that were the forerunners
of much of the modern equipment
00:20:25.25\00:20:27.89
you'll see today in a gym.
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Such as this rower
machine and gripmaster.
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Many of these
were on the titanic
00:20:32.33\00:20:34.30
when it set sail for use
by its wealthy passengers.
00:20:34.33\00:20:37.70
The sanatorium would
start out as a great witness
00:20:37.73\00:20:40.64
to the message
that God had given,
00:20:40.67\00:20:42.50
but it would
later veer of track.
00:20:42.54\00:20:44.61
Unfortunately today this message
00:20:49.98\00:20:51.61
has often been neglected
00:20:51.65\00:20:53.48
and while many recognize
that we do have a message
00:20:53.52\00:20:56.08
and understand the
truth and validity of it.
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Many people do not live up
to what they know about health.
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The health work was
created to be the right arm.
00:21:02.56\00:21:06.13
It was to assist the gospel.
00:21:06.16\00:21:08.36
Not to be isolated on its own
00:21:08.40\00:21:10.80
but to work
harmoniously together.
00:21:10.83\00:21:13.23
Healthy living was not
to be an end in itself,
00:21:13.27\00:21:16.44
but its purpose was
to work with the gospel,
00:21:16.47\00:21:19.34
creating an opening
wedge to people's hearts.
00:21:19.37\00:21:22.68
May we
implement these principles
00:21:22.71\00:21:24.61
first in our lives
00:21:24.65\00:21:26.48
and then also in the
churches we are a part of
00:21:26.51\00:21:29.28
as we witness to the
communities we live in.
00:21:29.32\00:21:31.92
The call had come from overseas,
00:22:28.94\00:22:31.11
please send someone.
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The church was expanding
from its North American roots
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to further afield.
00:22:36.18\00:22:38.29
The plea had come from Europe
00:22:38.32\00:22:40.12
and the church leaders
00:22:40.16\00:22:41.49
in the United States had
discussed it several times.
00:22:41.52\00:22:45.06
The need was there
and finally in 1874,
00:22:45.09\00:22:48.76
the church voted
to send J.N. Andrews
00:22:48.80\00:22:51.57
as the first official missionary
00:22:51.60\00:22:54.04
of the church.
00:22:54.07\00:22:55.40
Despite his wife dying
just two years previous,
00:22:55.44\00:22:58.91
he remained
undeterred and set sail
00:22:58.94\00:23:01.61
with his two young
children for Europe.
00:23:01.64\00:23:04.48
The brethren in
Europe had been told
00:23:04.51\00:23:06.68
that they're about to receive
00:23:06.72\00:23:08.32
the most ablest
man in our ranks.
00:23:08.35\00:23:11.35
What qualified him
to be the ablest man
00:23:16.89\00:23:20.00
in our ranks?
00:23:20.03\00:23:21.36
At the age of 25,
00:23:21.40\00:23:22.80
he wrote a paper
that was presented
00:23:22.83\00:23:24.93
at the General
Conference session
00:23:24.97\00:23:26.74
that persuaded the
church to keep the Sabbath
00:23:26.77\00:23:29.00
from sunset to sunset.
00:23:29.04\00:23:30.97
He wrote the book The
History of The Sabbath
00:23:31.01\00:23:32.94
at the age of 29.
00:23:32.97\00:23:34.61
He was elected
General Conference president
00:23:34.64\00:23:36.85
at the age of 38.
00:23:36.88\00:23:38.81
He said he could recite
the New Testament by memory
00:23:38.85\00:23:41.98
and much of the Old Testament.
00:23:42.02\00:23:44.19
And he secured
non-combatant status
00:23:44.22\00:23:46.86
for Adventists in the civil war.
00:23:46.89\00:23:49.79
When as General
Conference president
00:23:49.82\00:23:51.39
he posted the first
Adventist camp meeting
00:23:51.43\00:23:54.30
in Wright, Michigan.
00:23:54.33\00:23:55.66
He would often go out at
night and check on the tents
00:23:55.70\00:23:58.57
to make sure everyone was okay.
00:23:58.60\00:24:00.90
He was much
loved, well respected
00:24:00.94\00:24:03.51
and was sent abroad
with the church's blessings.
00:24:03.54\00:24:06.31
Initially docking
in Liverpool, England,
00:24:12.65\00:24:15.15
before making his way
across France to Switzerland.
00:24:15.18\00:24:17.95
Arriving in Switzerland
the task ahead of him was huge.
00:24:17.99\00:24:22.22
Although he was not
a pioneer missionary
00:24:22.26\00:24:24.33
as some work had
already taken place before him,
00:24:24.36\00:24:27.40
there was little
structure to work with.
00:24:27.43\00:24:29.83
There were no printing presses,
00:24:29.86\00:24:31.37
no publishing houses,
and no organized conferences.
00:24:31.40\00:24:35.10
J.N. Andrews set about the work
00:24:35.14\00:24:36.94
with an intensity
that he was known for.
00:24:36.97\00:24:39.54
J.N. Andrews and his children
00:24:45.11\00:24:46.92
quickly learned
the French language,
00:24:46.95\00:24:48.85
making a family covenant
00:24:48.88\00:24:50.42
that they would
not speak anything
00:24:50.45\00:24:52.09
to each other in
the home, except French,
00:24:52.12\00:24:54.69
although German was
acceptable at times.
00:24:54.72\00:24:58.23
His daughter, Mary,
00:24:58.26\00:24:59.59
quickly became
fluent in the language
00:24:59.63\00:25:01.86
and became the proofreader
for the new magazine entitled
00:25:01.90\00:25:05.27
"Les Signes des Temps."
00:25:05.30\00:25:07.24
J.N. Andrews
wrote over 400 articles
00:25:07.27\00:25:09.94
for this magazine
00:25:09.97\00:25:11.37
during the seven year
period that he was in Europe,
00:25:11.41\00:25:14.04
a remarkable amount considering
00:25:14.08\00:25:16.04
that he also
contracted pneumonia
00:25:16.08\00:25:18.18
after being
there just three years.
00:25:18.21\00:25:20.32
When the doctor
came to visit him,
00:25:20.35\00:25:22.02
he asked him why he
was starving himself
00:25:22.05\00:25:24.35
'cause he looked to
be in such bad health.
00:25:24.39\00:25:26.19
Not wanting to overspend,
00:25:31.43\00:25:33.56
they lived
mainly on white bread,
00:25:33.60\00:25:35.56
graham pudding,
potatoes and sometimes cabbage,
00:25:35.60\00:25:39.20
with very little
fruit, milk, or butter.
00:25:39.23\00:25:42.94
He was counseled to marry again
00:25:42.97\00:25:44.81
and it's likely this
would have preserved his life
00:25:44.84\00:25:47.38
as it could have led to him
taking better care of himself.
00:25:47.41\00:25:50.78
But he said he could not.
00:25:50.81\00:25:52.55
He was particularly heartbroken
after the death of his daughter
00:25:52.58\00:25:56.22
and when he returned to Europe,
00:25:56.25\00:25:57.72
he was completely bedridden
by 1883 with tuberculosis.
00:25:57.75\00:26:02.52
The church was concerned
00:26:02.56\00:26:03.89
and they sent J.N.
Loughborough from England
00:26:03.93\00:26:06.13
to do an anointing service.
00:26:06.16\00:26:08.10
And his mother also
visited him in his final months
00:26:08.13\00:26:11.47
but unfortunately,
he still died young.
00:26:11.50\00:26:14.00
He charged that no
eulogy should appear
00:26:20.58\00:26:23.04
in the Review and Herald
00:26:23.08\00:26:24.55
and while Uriah Smith
wanted to publish one,
00:26:24.58\00:26:27.38
he complied with his request.
00:26:27.42\00:26:29.58
He was a pioneer,
a dedicated worker
00:26:29.62\00:26:32.32
and one of the most intelligent
and hardworking ministers
00:26:32.35\00:26:35.86
in the history of our church.
00:26:35.89\00:26:38.09
Whilst he received no
eulogy after his death,
00:26:38.13\00:26:41.10
his legacy lived on in
far more significant ways.
00:26:41.13\00:26:45.20
What kind of legacy are
you building in your life?
00:26:45.23\00:26:48.64
If nothing was said publicly
00:26:48.67\00:26:50.51
or in written
form after your death,
00:26:50.54\00:26:53.07
would the fruit of your
life lead to positive change
00:26:53.11\00:26:56.28
in the life of other people?
00:26:56.31\00:26:58.41
May we make a commitment
to leave such a legacy behind.
00:26:58.45\00:27:02.12