Sermon Tone Analysis

1963 -

1963 -

Ellen White visited a place called Otsego.

Key words or points

On Friday evening she was encouraged to open the sabbath with a prayer.

Her son Willie records.

“When a new thing is brought out in the medical work, I know from my knowledge of the Spirit of Prophecy whether it belongs in our system or not.

If it does, I instantly adopt it, and advertise it, while the rest of the doctors are slowly feeling their way; and when they finally adopt it, I have five years' start of them.

On the other hand, when the medical profession is swept off their feet by some new fad, if it does not fit the light we have received, I simply do not touch it.

When the doctors finally discover their mistake, they wonder how it came that I did not get caught” (A Critique of the Book ‘Prophetess of Health’ (1976), pp.

16-17).

Care, and love.

The authors opens this part of the letter with love “beloved”.

There is a strong sense of care for this person.

Prosper

Rare word - εὐοδόω, though a correct formation, 1 is rare outside the Bible, possibly not used at all prior to the LXX.

The oldest example might be Soph.

Oed.

Col., 1435: σφῷν δʼ εὐοδοίη Ζεὺς τάδʼ εἰ τελεῖτέ μοι, with the sense “to show a good way,” “to lead on a good path,” “to guide well.”

εὐοδόω, though a correct formation,1 is rare outside the Bible, possibly not used at all prior to the LXX.

The oldest example might be Soph.

Oed.

Col., 1435: σφῷν δʼ εὐοδοίη Ζεὺς τάδʼ εἰ τελεῖτέ μοι, with the sense “to show a good way,” “to lead on a good path,” “to guide well.”

1 Like the intrans.

εὐοδέω, cf.

Liddell-Scott and Pass., s.v., εὐοδόω derives from the adj.

εὔοδος, which means “easy to travel” (e.g., Xen.

An., 4, 8, 10), fig.

“easy,” “without difficulty,” but also “favouring travel” (cf. the name for Pan, Ditt.

Or., 38, 3; 70, 1; 71, 2, and in the pap., Preisigke Wört., I, 617, s.v.), εὔοδος, like the noun εὐοδία (“good way,” “smooth journey”), occurs in the LXX (→ 112).

A later development is εὐόδωσισ; εὐοδιάζω and εὐοδιασμός also derive from εὐοδία.

Soph.

Sophocles, of Athens (496–406 b.c.), the real poet of the Athens of Pericles, ed. A. C. Pearson, 1924.

Others suggest it goes further than just saying lead of a good path, but that the path is easy to travel, or that it is without difficulty.

Oed.

Col. Oedipus Coloneus.

ed.

Gerhard Kittel, Geoffrey W. Bromiley, and Gerhard Friedrich, Theological Dictionary of the New Testament (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1964–), 109.

Wilhelm Michaelis, “Ὁδός, Ὁδηγός, Ὁδηγέω, Μεθοδία, Εἵσοδος, Ἔξοδος, Διέξοδος, Εὐοδόω,” ed.

Gerhard Kittel, Geoffrey W. Bromiley, and Gerhard Friedrich, Theological Dictionary of the New Testament (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1964–), 109.

Health - hygiaino

“to be free from disease”

She placed her hand on James Whites shoulder to pray, and then she was taken up in a vision.

Soul - psyche

“heart, soul, mind conscience” in total, life.

Turn with me to

Benjamin S. Davis, “Life,” ed.

Douglas Mangum et al., Lexham Theological Wordbook, Lexham Bible Reference Series (Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press, 2014).

This word may denote that which gives life (the life-principle) or life itself.

For example, Paul uses the expression “for his psychē is in him” to express that the young man Eutychus in is still alive.

When used in this way, it is not always clear whether psychē is material or immaterial.

(Benjamin S. Davis, “Life,” ed.

Douglas Mangum et al., Lexham Theological Wordbook, Lexham Bible Reference Series (Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press, 2014).

This word may denote that which gives life (the life-principle) or life itself.

For example, Paul uses the expression “for his psychē is in him” to express that the young man Eutychus in is still alive.

When used in this way, it is not always clear whether psychē is material or immaterial.

(Benjamin S. Davis, “Life,” ed.

Douglas Mangum et al., Lexham Theological Wordbook, Lexham Bible Reference Series (Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press, 2014).

This word may denote that which gives life (the life-principle) or life itself.

For example, Paul uses the expression “for his psychē is in him” to express that the young man Eutychus in is still alive.

When used in this way, it is not always clear whether psychē is material or immaterial.

Note the connection between psychē and food in and .

The word psychē is also used to denote the inner life of a human—the soul or the heart that produces a variety of internal human processes (; ; ).

It is used in conjunction with “spirit” in to express the whole inner person, both “soul” and “spirit.”

Lastly, the word may be used as a metonymy to describe the totality of a person (; ).

This word may denote that which gives life (the life-principle) or life itself.

For example, Paul uses the expression “for his psychē is in him” to express that the young man Eutychus in Acts 20:10 is still alive.

When used in this way, it is not always clear whether psychē is material or immaterial.

Benjamin S. Davis, “Life,” ed.

Douglas Mangum et al., Lexham Theological Wordbook, Lexham Bible Reference Series (Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press, 2014).

Benjamin S. Davis, “Life,” ed.

Douglas Mangum et al., Lexham Theological Wordbook, Lexham Bible Reference Series (Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press, 2014).

History of the Heath Message

45 min vision

Known as the “Osseo Health Message”

The 4 main visions

Vision of Autumn 1848 (CT)Injurious effects of tobacco[tea and coffee]

Vision of February 12, 1854 (Brookfield, NY)Lack of hygiene among Sabbath-keepers.

Control of appetite needed.

Vision of June 6, 1863 (Otsego, MI)

Care for health is a religious duty.

Most diseases caused by a violation of the laws of health.

Condemnation of various forms of intemperance: stimulating drinks (alcohol), tobacco, highly-spiced foods, overwork.

Vegetarianism is advocated for the first time.

Proper dietary habits necessary to control appetite.

Control of the mind is essential.

Natural remedies offered over drug medication: pure air, water, sunshine, physical exercise, adequate rest, fasting, proper nutrition.

(Trust in God was added in 1885).

Personal hygiene.

Environmental concerns.

Health education urged.

Although these prescriptions are for all people, the vision was given specially for the White family.

Vision of December 25, 1865 (Rochester, NY)

Seventh-day Adventists should establish health-care institutions to provide spiritual and medical care to cure those already ill, and to instruct people in methods of preventive medicine.

not just curative but preventative methods

Not a unique to us, but driven by EGW & The SDA Church.

Ellen White’s health message was not always unique.

Adventists were not always the first to teach certain aspects of healthful living.

Ellen White’s health message was not always unique.

Adventists were not always the first to teach certain aspects of healthful living.

(though it is nevertheless true that, in certain areas, Ellen White was well in advance of the general thinking of her day).

Ellen White is not proven to be a true prophet simply because of her advanced health/lifestyle counsels: Brigham Young, the Mormon leader who took his Latter Day Saints west to Utah in 1846, taught many of the same health principles that EGW taught-and, in some instances, a number of years before she wrote!

Clara Barton (1821-1912), known as "The Angel of the Battlefield" during the American Civil War (1861-61) and later founder of the American Red Cross, also reportedly taught some of the same truths as EGW -- and, in certain instances, possibly earlier that EGW.