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A Debt of Gratitude

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Michigan · Apr 15, 1902

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 79, No. 15.

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A Debt of Gratitude

By R. A. Underwood

FOR several years it has seemed to me a wise and reasonable thing to turn the Battle Creek College over to the medical branch of this cause.
Providence has favored this move, and now at this time when the medical work has been crippled by recent heavy loss by fire, it is opportune that every Seventh-day Adventist should show his interest in the principles of health reform and the medical work by helping to raise a fund to purchase the college building, and give it, free of debt, to the medical work. God has given this people a favorable opportunity to show their appreciation of the medical work.
A few days ago I met a prominent physician in a Pennsylvania city. I soon learned that he was much interested in our work as a people. He had read Good Health, “Thoughts on Daniel and the Revelation,” “Great Controversy,” “Christ’s Object Lessons,” etc. In conversation at the table, I asked him what first attracted his attention to our work and people. (His table was spread with health foods.) He replied, “These health foods, while I was in the medical college, first led me to investigate your work and doctrine.” From these his mind had been led to the subject of Christ’s coming, the Sabbath, and kindred truths for this time. There are many cases of a similar character.
Sometimes we forget what we formerly paid for tobacco, tea, coffee, drugs, etc. When we think of the money saved by this people by adopting right principles of living, to say nothing of the suffering avoided, we ought to be a grateful people.
Indeed, we owe it as a debt of gratitude to God and to our fellow men cheerfully and quickly to raise a sum sufficient to purchase the Battle Creek College, and give it, free of debt, to the medical college, which, under God, is raised up to carry this reform to the ends of the earth.
If we have no land to set apart to raise a crop for this purpose, we can appropriate some part of our income as a thank offering for deliverance from the gall and bitterness of intemperance. God will use this gift to raise a beacon light that shall shine to the uttermost parts of the earth. R. A. UNDERWOOD.