Although he licensed the rights from J.H., the friction between the brothers grew severe, and W.K. Kellogg was put in charge of the corn flakes business, but for only 25% of the profits (as opposed to 75% for J.H.).Įventually, W.K. But eventually, the demand for corn flakes from former patients of the San became so great that a separate facility had to be built to bake the corn flakes and fill all the orders. Originally, corn flakes were served only at the Sanitarium, and there was no thought of commercially marketing them. The idea for Kellogg’s Corn Flakes came from John Harvey Kellogg, but the task of figuring out how to manufacture them fell to W.K. On this day in 1906, the Battle Creek Toasted Corn Flake Company was incorporated by Will Keith Kellogg, younger brother of John Harvey Kellogg. It seemed at the time that the church was losing its brightest light, and its whole health reform arm, but the church weathered that storm became even stronger. The last time he had renewed the corporate charter of the San, he had made it non-denominational and effectively severed its ties to the Adventist Church, so when he left, the San left with him. The rift between Kellogg and the SDA Church, and his former mentor and friend Ellen White, widened until, after years of church non-attendance, he was finally disfellowshipped in 1907. Kellogg’s publication of “The Living Temple” prompted Ellen White to write her own response, “The Ministry of Healing.” Kellogg, she bluntly stated: “When you wrote that book, you were not under the inspiration of God,” leaving open the possibility that he was inspired by another power. Truth is sustained by a plain ‘Thus saith the Lord.’ But there has been a weaving in of error, and the use of scriptures out of their natural connection, in order to substantiate fallacies, which would deceive, if possible, the very elect. The seductive fallacies of Satan undermined confidence in the true pillars of the faith, which are grounded on Bible evidence. “The subtle errors in this book were surrounded by many beautiful truths. It was finally decided that the Review & Herald would not publish the book, but Kellogg nevertheless paid out of his own pocket to have the book printed.Įllen White wrote that the book had errors: Prescott, who joined Spicer in raising the alarm about the book. Spicer, who had worked as a missionary in India for several years, and was familiar with Eastern beliefs. Kellogg provided the manuscript for church leaders to review but, some did not discern the subtle errors. Pantheism blurs the distinction between creator and creature. In order to help fund the rebuilding of the Sanitarium, Kellogg wrote a book called “The Living Temple,” which incorporated the principles of health he had learned and espoused over the course of his career.īut Kellogg’s book strayed from Christian orthodoxy by subtly insinuating the Eastern concept of pantheism, the belief that God is in all things, and hence that all things are divine. Kellogg ignored her counsel and planned a new facility even larger than the sprawling four story Sanitarium building that had burned. But Ellen White counseled for decentralizing the health work among several smaller institutions spread out around the country. John Harvey Kellogg, the force behind the sanitarium, was planning to re-build.
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