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    Summary by Dr. McCay

    We can do no better than to quote the closing paragraphs of his three-article series on Mrs. White that appeared in the Review and Herald:WBEGW 58.2

    “To sum up the discussion: Every modern specialist in nutrition whose life is dedicated to human welfare must be impressed in four respects by the writings and leadership of Ellen G. White.WBEGW 58.3

    “In the first place, her basic concepts about the relation between diet and health have been verified to an unusual degree by scientific advances of the past decades. Someone may attempt to explain this remarkable fact by saying: ‘Mrs. White simply borrowed her ideas from others.’ But how would she know which ideas to borrow and which to reject out of the bewildering array of theories and health teachings current in the nineteenth century? She would have had to be a most amazing person, with knowledge beyond her times, in order to do this successfully!WBEGW 58.4

    “In the second place, everyone who attempts to teach nutrition can hardly conceive of a leadership such as that of Mrs. White that was able to induce a substantial number of people to improve their diets.WBEGW 58.5

    “In the third place, one can only speculate about the large number of sufferers during the past century who could have had improved health if they had accepted the teachings of Mrs. White.WBEGW 58.6

    “Finally, one can wonder how to make her teachings more widely known in order to benefit the overcrowded earth that seems inevitable tomorrow unless the present rate of increase of the world’s population is decreased.WBEGW 59.1

    “In spite of the fact that the works of Mrs. White were written long before the advent of modern scientific nutrition, no better over-all guide is available today.”—Feb. 26, 1959.WBEGW 59.2

    As we look back over the development of the Seventh-day Adventist medical work, the place it has held, and the value it has been to the Advent Movement, as we think of the scientific confirmation of the health teachings Mrs. White set forth, may we not rightly find in all this further valid reason for believing that she possessed the gift of the Spirit of prophecy? Why should we ever allow the force of the evidence in this area to become befogged because a few extremists have at times distorted her teachings and caricatured “health reform” into a synonym for irrational views and activities? Long before most of us were born Mrs. White was aware of the danger of extremism and warned against it with vigor. Scathingly she denounced those who, with a zeal not according to knowledge, sought to pose as authorities on health and to distort her teachings to support their erratic ideas.WBEGW 59.3

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