Mikhail Kalashnikov
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John Harvey Kellogg
American physician (1852-1943)
John Harvey Kellogg was an American businessman, inventor, physician, and advocate of the Progressive Movement. He was the director of the Battle Creek Sanitarium, where he promoted a holistic approach to health, including vegetarianism, nutrition, and hydrotherapy. Kellogg was also known for his development of dry breakfast cereals, which led to the creation of the flaked-cereal industry.
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About the John Harvey Kellogg
John Harvey Kelloggwas an American businessman, inventor, physician, and advocate of the Progressive Movement. He was the director of the Battle Creek Sanitarium in Battle Creek, Michigan, founded by members of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. It combined aspects of a European spa, a hydrotherapy institution, a hospital and high-class hotel. Kellogg treated the rich and famous, as well as the poor who could not afford other hospitals. According to Encyclopaedia Britannica, his “development of dry breakfast cereals was largely responsible for the creation of the flaked-cereal industry.”
An early proponent of the germ theory of disease, Kellogg was well ahead of his time in relating intestinal flora and the presence of bacteria in the intestines to health and disease. The sanitarium approached treatment in a holistic manner, actively promoting vegetarianism, nutrition, the use of yogurt enemas to clear “intestinal flora”, exercise, sun-bathing, and hydrotherapy, as well as the abstention from smoking tobacco, drinking alcoholic beverages, and sexual activity. Kellogg dedicated the last 30 years of his life to promoting eugenics and segregation. Kellogg was a major leader in progressive health reform, particularly in the second phase of the clean living movement. He wrote extensively on science and health. His approach to “biologic living” combined scientific knowledge with Adventist beliefs, promoting health reform, and temperance. Many of the vegetarian foods that Kellogg developed and offered his patients were publicly marketed: Kellogg’s brother, Will Keith Kellogg, is best known today for the invention of the breakfast cereal corn flakes.
Kellogg held liberal theological beliefs radically different from mainstream Nicene Christianity and emphasized what he saw as the importance of human reason over many aspects of traditional doctrinal authority. He strongly rejected fundamentalist and conservative notions of original sin, human depravity, and the atonement of Jesus, viewing the last in terms of “his exemplary life” on Earth rather than death. Becoming a Seventh-day Adventist as their beliefs shifted towards Trinitarianism during the 1890s, Adventists were “unable to accommodate the essentially liberal understanding of Christianity” exhibited by Kellogg, viewing his theology as pantheistic and unorthodox. Disagreements with other members of the SDA led to a major schism: he was disfellowshipped in 1907, but continued to follow many of their beliefs and directed the sanitarium until his death. Kellogg helped to establish the American Medical Missionary College in 1895. Popular misconceptions have wrongly attributed various cultural practices, inventions, and historical events to Kellogg.
20 Quotes by John Harvey Kellogg
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Because I never thought the Lord would treat me any different from any other honest man or that I had an official position that compelled the Lord to help me in any other way than He would help any other man.
John Harvey KelloggAmerican physician (1852-1943)
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I believe in the unconscious state of the mind in death.
John Harvey KelloggAmerican physician (1852-1943)
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I believe the Sabbath; I keep the Sabbath.
John Harvey KelloggAmerican physician (1852-1943)
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I believe that the end of things man-made cannot be very far away – must be near at hand.
John Harvey KelloggAmerican physician (1852-1943)
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I am, I think the only surviving member of the original Battle Creek church. The church was disbanded, with the exception of thirteen members, in 1870.
John Harvey KelloggAmerican physician (1852-1943)
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Brother Jones is not my product, and I am not responsible for anything he writes or says.
John Harvey KelloggAmerican physician (1852-1943)
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Do you know, that is the root of the whole trouble – has been one of the roots at any rate – is people hearing things and then imagining some more and magnifying it and multiplying it.
John Harvey KelloggAmerican physician (1852-1943)
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These charges that have been made against me, that Prof. Prescott has made, has charged against me, that I denied the atonement in conversation with him, are absolutely false.
John Harvey KelloggAmerican physician (1852-1943)
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The Lord did not bless us with any children of our own, so we gathered up little waifs whom we thought would be neglected and would not be cared for unless we brought them into our family.
John Harvey KelloggAmerican physician (1852-1943)
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I don’t want you to misunderstand me. You might get up and state what you believe to be Seventh-day Adventism, and I might not agree with everything you said.
John Harvey KelloggAmerican physician (1852-1943)
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If you can get some of the devil’s money to use for the Lord’s work, if you have to borrow it, it is all right and carry on the work.
John Harvey KelloggAmerican physician (1852-1943)
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There are any number of people who profess to be good Christian people who are willing to believe all kinds of things on suspicion. Now that is not the way the Bible directs for Christian people to do.
John Harvey KelloggAmerican physician (1852-1943)
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A dead cow or sheep lying in a pasture is recognized as carrion. The same sort of a carcass dressed and hung up in a butcher’s stall passes as food.
John Harvey KelloggAmerican physician (1852-1943)
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Then, after I came home from Europe, I found I was under condemnation; and I was condemned at that time because I did not endorse the financial policy of the General Conference.
John Harvey KelloggAmerican physician (1852-1943)
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I think I am the oldest member and have been in good standing longer than any other member of this church.
John Harvey KelloggAmerican physician (1852-1943)
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You cannot work with men who won’t work with you.
John Harvey KelloggAmerican physician (1852-1943)
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Now when I came to go up to operations, I went down to this patient’s room and got down on my knees at the foot of the bed and earnestly asked the Lord to help us and to help me.
John Harvey KelloggAmerican physician (1852-1943)
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When I found the book was condemned as soon as the book was printed, or rather as soon as it was set up ready to print, I held it in plates for a year nearly, waiting to see what would come out of all this discussion.
John Harvey KelloggAmerican physician (1852-1943)
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But sometimes in the midst of worry, anxiety and hard work, it has been pretty hard to bear all these false reports going about the country – to see my friends alienated and being made to believe things that were absolutely false.
John Harvey KelloggAmerican physician (1852-1943)
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Is God a man with two arms and legs like me? Does He have eyes, a head? Does He have bowels? Well I do, and that makes me more wonderful than He is!
John Harvey KelloggAmerican physician (1852-1943)