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 Enter John Harvey Kellogg
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June 17 - Enter John Harvey Kellogg

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I will restore health unto thee, and I will heal thee of thy wounds. Jer. 30:17.

Dynamic, forceful, and visionary are the best words to describe the young 23-year-old John Harvey Kellogg who assumed the leadership of the Battle Creek Snitarium in 1876. He was only five feet three inches tall, but what he lacked in stature he made up for in sheer exuberance in every task he undertook.

Early on he had had no desire to become a physician. He really wanted to be a teacher. But when James Whtie sponsored him, along with Edson and whillie White, for six months of training at Dr. Trall's hygieo-Therapeutic College in 1872 he not only received an M.D. degree but a desire to study further.

Again with financial backing from the Whites, he spent a year styding medicine at the University of Michigan and a final year at New York's Bellevue Hospital Medical School, then perhaps the most advanced medical college in the nation. Upon completion of his program in 1875 he told Willie White that "I feel more than 50 pounds bigger since getting a certain piece of sheepskin about two feet square. It's bona fide sheep too, by the way, none of your bogus paper concerns like the hygeio-therapeutic document."

In the summer of 1875 he returned to Battle Creek and was soon working at the Health Reform Institute, the next year becoming its director, on his conditional request that his term would last only one year. Little did he realize that he would head the institution 67 years.

When he took over in 1876, the institute had 20 patients, but six departed with the previous administrator, and two others left after one look at the boyish physician. But Kellogg wasn't concerned.

Within a few months he had twice the usual number of patients, and by 1877 he had to add a new building. That was the beginning of a building program that by the turn of the century would make what had become the Battle Creek Sanitarium into one of the largest and most well-known hospitals in the United States.

Meanwhile Kellogg in his spare time wrote some 50 books, invented cornflakes and the cold cereal industry, develped cutting-edge medical technology, and became a world-famous surgeon.

God had blessed the little giant more than anyone could have imagined. He always blesses those who are willing to grow.

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Our part is to receive God's word and to hold it fast, yielding ourselves fully to its control, and its purpose in us will be accomplished(COL 61).
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