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Out of the Ashes-2
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Dec. 4 - Out of the Ashes-2

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Your wounds I will heal, says the Lord. Jer. 30:17, RSV.

Healing is a wonderful thing, whether it be to a human body or the body of the church. In fact, sometimes the healed body is stronger than before. So it would be for Adventism headquartered in its new location far from the influence of Kellogg and Jones and their dissident teachings and divisive ways.

The next few years saw the establishment of a new center of operations just inside the Washington, D.C., boundary. Not only did the denominational leaders establish the General Conference headquarters and Review and Herald Publishing Association in the District of Columbia, but a couple miles down the road in Takoma Park, Maryland, they built the Washington Sanitarium and the Washington Training College. The latter institution they rechristened in 1907 as the Washington Foreign Missionary Seminary.

Thus the new headquarters soon sported a full array of typical Adventist institutions. Washington, D.C., and Takoma Park remained the headquarters for world Adventism for
nearly nine decades. The Review and Herald Publishing Association eventually moved to Hagerstown, Maryland, in 1982-1983, and the offices of the General Conference transferred to Silver Spring, Maryland, in 1989. The sanitarium and college have remained at their original locations. The former is now known as Washington Adventist Hospital and the latter as Columbia Union College.

The breakaway from Battle Creek brought with it a major shift in the Adventist medical program, and this time the forceful Kellogg was not in control.

The first aspect of the new Adventist medical work consisted of a new generation of Adventist sanitariums. The focal point in medical activities shifted from Michigan to southern California.

Ellen White had begun pointing to California in 1902, even before Kellogg's difficulty reached a crisis level. God, she penned, "is preparing the way for our people to obtain possession, at little cost, of properties on which there are buildings that can be utilized  in our work" (Lt 153, 1902). Rather then one "mammoth institution" (7T 96), Ellen White counseled that the denomination establish many smaller sanitariums in different locations.

No matter how deep the wound, we serve a God who can heal.


 

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Thank You, God, for that aspect of grace.
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