Non-SDA's recognize value of Mrs. White's counsel

One need not look far to find testimonials to the great value of the Spirit of Prophecy. The Arizona Record of Globe, Arizona, recently carried extensive excerpts from Steps to Christ as the sermon of the week. The priest of the Holy Angels' Catholic Church submitted the excerpts. The editor noted: "Rev. Reinweiler has submitted as his sermon excerpts from the second chapter of the booklet entitled Steps to Christ by E. G. White. He has explained his desire to submit the works in view of the upsurge of interest in Christ as a result of the recent Expo '72 rally in Dallas."

Under the title "The Sinner's Need of Christ," large portions of this chapter appeared.

Paul Harvey, in his ABC program in March, 1969, presented Ellen White as publishing 100 years ago advice in the fields of nutrition which measure with "the latest medical knowledge." He pointed out that recent careful investigations disclosed that Seventh-day Adventists live longer and suffer less disease. With the church body as a whole refraining from tobacco and alcohol, and 50 percent following a vegetarian dietary program, Seventh-day Adventists have a definite advantage.

But Paul Harvey pointed out that this advantage comes as a benefit of Ellen White's teachings. He concluded that research has "tended to reaffirm the faith of the faithful to discover that the most advanced scientific findings support what was written and taught by this amazing little lady, Ellen White, more than 100 years ago."

He concluded with a number of terse statements and conjectures: "If some of her recommendations sound extreme, imagine how they all must have sounded in 1863. Yet modern science continues more and more to say, 'She was right!' "

The late Dr. Clive McCay, nutritionist and long researcher and instructor in the graduate school at Cornell University, after reading some of Ellen White's books, addressed the Men's Club of the Ithaca, New York, Unitarian Church. He declared: "When one reads such works by Mrs. White as The Ministry of Healing or Counsels on Diet and Foods, he is impressed by the correctness of her teachings in the light of modern nutritional science. One can only speculate how much better health the average American might enjoy, even though he knew almost nothing of modern science, if he but followed the teachings of Mrs. White."—Review and Herald, Feb. 12, 1959.

And he concluded: "In spite of the fact that the works of Mrs. White were written long before the advent of modern scientific nutrition, no better overall guide is available today."—Ibid., Feb. 26, 1959.

Every reader of the E. G. White books recognizes the internal evidence in the messages themselves as did two parish priests recently when an Adventist traveling companion shared with them on the plane The Desire of Ages. They read a few pages. Passing the book back one commented: "The writer of those words was inspired by God."