In 1945 new discoveries were being made in the medical arena. An American zoologist and geneticist, Thomas Hunt Morgan, conducting experiments with the common fruit fly established the chromosome theory of heredity and showed that genes are responsible for hereditary traits being passed from parents to children.

James Herrick, MD an American cardiologist first described sickle-cell anemia in 1945.

Penicillin, discovered some 20 years before was being used extensively and saving hundred of thousands of lives throughout the world in 1945.

New medications were being produced including diphenhydramine or Benadryl which has been used by millions to prevent and halt allergic reactions.

Also in the year 1945 the South Atlantic Conference was established by God for the proclamation of the Three Angels Message. He introduced at the very inception of this work the health message for the purpose of preparing a people for the coming of the Lord mentally, spiritually and physically.

This message of health has been directed in the South Atlantic Conference by consecrated and devoted men like Elders: George Timpson, Charles Cunningham, Samuel Gooden, V. J. Mendinghall, Richard Long, D. M. Jones and others, who have proclaimed this message by precept and example.

And even though multitudes of scientific discoveries have been made since 1945, none have diminished or contradicted the message of health, which God has entrusted to His people. The 8 Laws of Health, God's message of health for a dying world, have stood the test of time and the investigation of a skeptical scientific community. It is my hope that we, as God's remnant people, will embrace and share with others this wonderful message of health as never before, glorifying God in our bodies and spirits which are His.

May we determine by the lives we live that we will do everything we can so that another sixty years will in no wise elapse before we all experience the eternal health and happiness that will be a part of the earth made new.

Submitted by: David L. Moore, MD
Health Ministries Director