Special Testimonies, Series B

Ellen White returned to the United States in 1900. In the closing fifteen years of her life a number of special situations were met, and the church passed through certain crises. With the development of pantheism, espoused particularly by Dr. John Harvey Kellogg and some of his associates, and with the efforts to separate the medical missionary work from the denomination, the roots of which go back into the 1890’s, there developed a serious crisis at the headquarters of our work in Battle Creek, ranging around the Battle Creek Sanitarium. The situation was very delicate The sanitarium was still the property of Seventh-day Adventists, but in the hands of a corporation. Its staff was largely Seventh-day Adventists; its group of employees were nearly all Adventists; yet wrong concepts were coming into the work, and Ellen White in 1903 assembled a group of six communications and they were published as Series B, No. 1, Letters to Physicians and Ministers. Most of this material is in Testimonies, vol. 8, today.STSB 3.2