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.

Meaning of the quote

This quote is from John Harvey Kellogg, an American businessman. He is saying that the accusations made against him by Professor Prescott, that Kellogg denied the atonement (a religious belief) during a conversation, are completely untrue.

About John Harvey Kellogg

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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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 Kellogg

American physician (1852-1943)

I believe in the unconscious state of the mind in death.

John Harvey Kellogg

American physician (1852-1943)

I believe the Sabbath; I keep the Sabbath.

John Harvey Kellogg

American physician (1852-1943)

I believe that the end of things man-made cannot be very far away – must be near at hand.

John Harvey Kellogg

American physician (1852-1943)

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 Kellogg

American physician (1852-1943)

Brother Jones is not my product, and I am not responsible for anything he writes or says.

John Harvey Kellogg

American physician (1852-1943)

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 Kellogg

American physician (1852-1943)

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 Kellogg

American physician (1852-1943)

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 Kellogg

American physician (1852-1943)

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 Kellogg

American physician (1852-1943)

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 Kellogg

American physician (1852-1943)

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 Kellogg

American physician (1852-1943)

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 Kellogg

American physician (1852-1943)

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 Kellogg

American physician (1852-1943)

I think I am the oldest member and have been in good standing longer than any other member of this church.

John Harvey Kellogg

American physician (1852-1943)

You cannot work with men who won’t work with you.

John Harvey Kellogg

American physician (1852-1943)

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 Kellogg

American physician (1852-1943)

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 Kellogg

American physician (1852-1943)

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 Kellogg

American physician (1852-1943)

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 Kellogg

American physician (1852-1943)