AMEN 2006: The Right Arm, the Right Approach, Right Now

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Adventist Medical Evangelism Network (AMEN)

AMEN 2006 Plenary Sessions

Lorayne Barton

Serving God, Saving Souls: The Purpose of Medical Evangelism

AMEN 2006 Progress Notes, Part 1

Don Mackintosh

God’s Right Arm Revealed

Rod Willey

Pews to People

Arthur Weaver

Health Education as Introductory Contact

AMEN 2006 Progress Notes, Part 2

Ted N.C. Wilson

The Spiritual Foundation of the Right Arm

God’s Right Arm Resurrected

Naren James

Sam Soler

From Medical Practice to Ministry: The Experience of the Bluegrass Clinic

Mark Finley

Healthful Living through the Eyes of Grace

Jerry Finneman

Donn LaTour

Allen Lloyd

Phil Mills

Medical Ministry Panel Discussion

AMEN 2006 Progress Notes, Part 3

God’s Right Arm Connected

Zeno Charles-Marcel

Do You Want to be Well? The Challenge of FAITH in Clinical Practice

My topic today is God's gift of healing through the eyes of grace.

The need of the gift, the origin of the gift, the purpose of the gift, and the reception of the gift.

Father, as we open your word and study about heaven's gift of healing, we pray that you'd open our eyes, Take us from the dim miasma of earth and transport us to the heavenly portals of the eternal world.

Give us a new view of the need of the gift, the origin of the gift, the purpose of the gift and the reception of the gift.

The dawn of the 19th century was filled with promise.

The union of states were now organized into a loosely knit conglomerate.

And America was rejoicing in the presidency of George Washington.

Then something extremely serious happened that hung like a dark shadow over America.

And America wondered what would happen to their leader.

When the White House staff learned that George Washington was ill, the first thing they did was call for a bleeder, not a physician.

And as the bleeder appeared in Washington's room, he quickly determined that what was needed was to slit the president's wrists and bleed him because his fever was quite high.

That indicated, of course, in the medical parlance of the 19th century, that he had too much vitality.

If you have a high temperature, you have too much vitality.

The only way to cure for that is bleeding.

So they bled him and drained 14 ounces of blood.

When his physician came there the next morning, he recognized that he needed a consult, so called 2 of the most renowned physicians of Washington, D.C.

Before they came, the physician bled Washington again.

When the 2 learned physicians came, the 3 in consult, because of course 3 are better than 1, they determined that they would bleed him a third time.

This time, 32 ounces of blood were drawn.

Washington was so weak that he pled with his physicians to let him die in peace, which they did.

Now the next morning after the death of George Washington, I want to read you the words that were carried in the popular press in Washington, D.C.

The beloved leader has died, but he has received the best of medical care.

His untimely death occurred in spite of all that human knowledge and medical genius could accomplish and in spite of all the skill that we could do to arrest the course of the disease.

What was the condition of medicine from 1800 to 1850?

What was the climate in which the Adventist health message grew in?

What was the backdrop to the origin of the Adventist health message?

Now we learn a little bit about that backdrop to the Adventist health message in a medical journal written in 1858.

Washington Hooker wrote about modern medical practices in the 1800s and in the 1850s.

And he listed 5 of the major medical practices in the 1850s.

Number 1, the combination of calomelin and opium is of great value if you have an inflammatory disease.

So if you lived in the 1850s, you would want this combination of opium and calomelin.

Secondly, mercury is 1 of the best remedies for chronic disorders.

Thirdly, bleeding is very effective if it's used judiciously.

Fourthly, if a patient has a fever, you need to get them to sleep.

And the best way to get them to sleep is give them alcohol, because it will put your patients to sleep.

Fifthly, If you have colic or intestine of intermittent fever, use quinine because quinine is the most effective.

Chapman wrote a home remedy book in 1835 And he talked in the home remedy book was called the Family Medicine Chest Dispensary.

Every home in America should have the Family Medicine Chest dispensary.

Now, 1 of the remedies he gave there for lungs, for any lung diseases, was cigars and cigar smoke.

And this is what the Family Medicine Chest Dispensary says, 1835.

The patient should frequently draw in the breath of cigar smoke freely so the internal surface of air vessels may be exposed to the action of vapor.

The Adventist health message grew in this context.

If you don't understand the context, you can't fully understand the gift of the message.

Boyd developed a unique treatment for children who had high fevers.

If your child, living in the 1850s and 60s, had a high fever, this is what Dr.

Boyd said, let the little patient be bled freely at the commencement of the case.

Your child is 345 years old, you slit their wrists.

This is the popular medical cure of the 1830s, 1840s, 1850s.

Let the little patient be bled freely at the commencement of the case.

Then give the child, if they're 3 years old or upwards, wine mixed with emetic tartar.

If necessary, repeat every half hour in the giving them wine with this emetic tartar.

You know, emetic tartar, that's to get you to vomit.

If the second dose does not cause vomiting, double the quantity of wine and emetic tartar, unless the case is very mild.

The vomiting should be encouraged if you have a fever by warm drinks, that is warm drinks of this liquid of wine and tartar, and so the nausea is continued for a few hours.

This is the setting of the Adventist health message.

Now can you understand why from 1844 to 1863 many of the early Adventist leaders were incredibly sick and ill and some of them were dying too young.

In 1863, at the age of 34 years old, J.N.

Andrews, who Ellen White said was the ablest man among us, who later wrote the history of the Sabbath, who memorized...

Andrews was asked, we've heard that you've memorized the whole Bible, is that true?

And Andrews' response was, I could not reproduce the Old Testament, but the New Testament I can certainly reproduce from memory if it were lost.

Andrews spoke 6 languages, He taught himself Greek and he taught himself Hebrew.

Ellen White said he's the ablest man among us.

I quote Andrews, my general strength is easily exhausted.

I find it difficult to perform the labor which devolves upon me as a preacher.

And sometimes I'm so sick I can't even get to the pulpit.

Now, Andrews talks about his own health practices and his own health habits.

I suppose that old age's cheese was good for digestion.

So the older the cheese, the more moldy, the better I thought it was my digestion, so I consumed large quantities.

As to meat, mince, pie, and sausage, I thought they were not harmful, they were healthful.

I loved hot biscuits, butter, donuts, pickles, preserves, tea and coffee, and pork in every form I commonly used.

But I was so sick at 34 years old, I could not even get to the pulpit.

Now, Loughborough was on his deathbed, but do you know ultimately he lived to 92 years old because of God's gift of health?

Here's what Loughborough said about his health.

Loughborough begins to speak about his health and he says, oh, Loughborough, when he was 18, had cigars prescribed by a physician And he became hooked on cigars to cure up his lung deficiency.

Loughborough goes on to say that he loved pork and pork gravy.

And He said he ate pork in the morning, meat consumed in large amounts for noon, and slices of pork and beef in the evening, ate almost no vegetables and almost no fruit.

Loughborough and Andrews and James and Ellen White, as well as many early Adventists from 1844 to 1863, were suffering the consequences of abusing their bodies And they were dying.

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