White, Ellen’s son and chief assistant after her husband died, records the following: “In 1906, Dr. Kellogg’s assistant in the Chicago Medical Mission. Several people did write out their concerns about the fallibility of Ellen White’s testimonies. Let it all be written out, and submitted to those who desire to remove the perplexities.” 1 Let us now have their reasons for talking with the students in a way that would destroy their faith in the messages that God sends to his people. The time has come for the leaders to state to us the perplexities of which they have spoken to the nurses and to their associate physicians. “Let those who are troubled now place upon paper a statement of the difficulties that perplex their minds, and let us see if we can not throw some light upon the matter that will relieve their perplexities.The Lord will help me to answer these objections, and to make plain that which seems to be intricate.” I was directed by the Lord to request them and any others who have perplexities and grievous things in their minds regarding the testimonies that I have borne, to specify what their objections and criticisms are. Paulson, Elder Sadler, Judge Arthur, and many of their associates. Kellogg, Elders Jones, Tenny, and Taylor, Dr. “Recently in the visions of the night I stood in a large company of people.Stewart), dated March 30, 1906, which his booklet reproduces.
Stewart claimed that the booklet contained materials that Ellen White herself asked to be compiled, quoting her letter to 22 of the leaders of the Battle Creek Sanitarium (including Dr. White, Concerning Contradictions, Inconsistencies and Other Errors in Her Writings.ĭr. Stewart as A Response to an Urgent Testimony of Mrs. This notorious pamphlet (named for the color of its paperback cover) was published in the name of Dr. In 1907 he published what has come to be known in the history of Adventism as “The Blue Book.” When the Battle Creek Sanitarium was taken out of the hands of the Seventh-day Adventist church, Dr. Stewart is listed as the second or third doctor on the medical staff and served as its vice-president. In the Battle Creek Sanitarium reports of the early 20 th century, Dr. Stewart of Battle Creek Sanitarium was an Adventist rebel! Firstly, he was the right hand man of the founder of the Battle Creek Sanitarium, Ellen White’s protégé Dr. The main reason I was curious about the spiritual condition of his other children is that Dr. Stewarts, all excellent physicians, all around five feet tall, and as far as I have known, all faithful Seventh-day Adventists–the children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren of the Battle Creek doctor. “Scott, I asked, did all your uncle and aunts remain Seventh-day Adventists?” “Yes,” Scott replied, “as far as I know, they have all remained in the church.” I have known some of Isabel’s siblings, there is a family line of ENT specialist Dr. Scott himself served as a missionary in Guam before coming to Walla Walla, and like his parents, he and his family are faithful, church-attending, vegetarian, tithe-paying, 100% Seventh-day Adventists.Īfter his mother died, I asked Scott about his mother’s siblings, his uncles and aunts, the other children of Dr. One of their sons is now a colleague of mine in Walla Walla, where we both work for the Adventist Health Medical Group Dr. They worked in African mission hospitals they served in Korea they raised six children in mission stations, several of whom became medical doctors and missionaries themselves.Īll my adult life I have known Isabel and her family, and have found them to be cheerful, serious, dedicated, and conservative Seventh-day Adventists.
Robson became a surgeon, and he and Isabel served the Seventh-day Adventist church as medical missionaries all their lives. During those years they each were courted by and then married young doctors from Loma Linda, and short petite Isabel and her young husband, the tall Robson Newbold, MD, were at the wedding of Dorothy and Dean Hoiland, MD, my wife’s parents. My mother-in-law Dorothy Dutcher and Isabel Stewart roomed together at the Glendale Sanitarium School of Nursing, where they both graduated as registered nurses. But my real connection is that she was the best friend and college roommate of my wife’s mother. It was my privilege to provide some medical care for her in her later years, and arrange for hospice care for her last few hours. I mean in Korea in Kenya in Loma Linda in Paradise, California or Walla Walla, Washington. Isabel was a short energetic woman who all her life would just show up anywhere. She was born February 23, 1920, in Battle Creek, Michigan, the youngest daughter of Elizabeth Reith Stewart and Dr. Newbold was my patient when she recently died in Walla Walla on March 25, 2014, at 94 years of age.
What happened to the children of an early Seventh-day Adventist who questioned the infallibility of Ellen G.
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