Te
7
Pace
It
~The
Divine
Tnitiative
The
renerally
voor
health
of
our
pioneers
in
the
early
years
of
this
movement
tn
a
large
degree
set
the
stage
for
|
their
involvement
ir
Tnstitutional
medical
work.
There
was
a
crying
need
among
their
founders
for
a
health
institute
which
could
not
only
take
care
of
their
physical
needs,
with
rational?
methodolozy,
but
which
would
also
rrovide
a
proper
spiritual
environment.
As
peor
health.continually
placued
the
Advent
people,
they
were
forced
tc
attent
existing
health
centers.
Here,
though
much
of
the
rational
therapy
called
for
from
the
pen
of
inspiration
could
be
received,
the
spiritual
environment
was
such
that
it
threatened
to
unsettle
their
"peculiar"?
faith.
(1T
489)
To
compound
the
problem,
little
of
Mrs,
White's
early
reform
council
(1848
through
1863)
was
accepted
and
thus
in
her
vision
of
December
25,
1845
she
is
forced
to
report,
"I
was
shown
that
our
Sabbathkeening
neople
have
been
ne~licent
in
actins
upon
the
light
which
God
has
given
in
regard
to
health
reform,
that
there
is
yet
a
great
work
n3
The
light
on
health
and
healthful
living
was
not
seen
in
before
“<,..
its
proner
relation
*o
2
vreparation
to
meet
the
coming
Christ
or
to
its
place
within
present
truth,
therefore
Mrs,
White
goes
on
to
s*recsc
+*his
vital
aspect:
-
"hile
men
ard-women
are
diseased
from
the
crown
1
",.,.2n
intellicent
system
of
treatment,
consisting
of
raths,
realthful
-diet,
nrerer
periods
of
rest,
*he
beneficial
=ffects
of
rure
2ir
,.."
{1T
5523)
in
harmony
with
n=tural
procersec.
oo
of
healimos.
=
_
0
The
word
'pe~vliar?
{
2.
kere
is
rot
in
reforon~e
+o
old
or
urnnanaly
but
+n
tha
unique
and
Inecducive
elemento
of
reforrnd
Chyrig+ian
Jivine,
OE
—~
Tr.
Vn
—_—
ay
2,
Meets
nN,
Soma
1,
mon
I
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