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Purpose and Objectives of Seventh-day Adventist Institutions

An Explanation Of This Document

Chapter 1—Why God Called the Church to Establish and Operate Institutions

Chapter 2—The Object of our Publications and our Publishing Houses

Chapter 3—Objectives of SDA Medical Institutions

Objectives As First Enunciated

Advertised Objectives Of Our First Sanitarium

Through The Period Of Expansion

Objectives Restated 1900-1914 

Dangers Of A Disproportionate Work

Chapter 4—Objectives of our Educational Institutions

Chapter 5—The Historical Setting of the Counsels Relating to the First Seventh-day Adventist Institutions

1. The First Publishing Institution

2. Medical: Battle Creek Sanitarium

3. Educational: Battle Creek College

APPENDIX A—A Distinctly Seventh-day Adventist Institution

A Collection of the most important statements defining the heaven-ordained purpose of Seventh-day Adventist institutions together with pertinent historical information about our early Battle Creek establishments.

Some of the more important statements defining the heaven ordained purpose of Seventh-day Adventist institutions together with pertinent historical information about our early Battle Creek establishments.

&ldquo;Every institution that bears the name of Seventh-day Adventist is to be to the world as was Joseph in Egypt, and as were Daniel and his fellows in Babylon. In the providence of God these men were taken captive, that they might carry to heathen nations the knowledge of the true God. They were to make no compromise with the idolatrous nations with which they were brought in contact, but were to stand loyal to their faith, bearing as a special honor the name of worshipers of the God who created the heavens and the earth.&rdquo;&mdash;Testimonies for the Church 8:153. (See &ldquo;God&rsquo;s Purpose for His Institutions,&rdquo; Testimonies for the Church 8:153-157.)

&ldquo;As our work has extended and institutions have multiplied, God&rsquo;s purpose in their establishment remains the same. The conditions of prosperity are unchanged.&rdquo;&mdash;Testimonies for the Church 6:224.

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