"The times of this ignorance" -- Movements toward therapeutic reform -- Temperance and diet reforms -- Joseph Bates, a health reformer -- Health reforms among seventh-day adventists -- The vision at Otsego, Michigan -- Early health literature -- Launching a campaign for health -- The popular dress reform -- The quest for moderation -- Days of affliction -- "Let us arise and build" -- The ministry as teachers of health -- A lesson in institutional finance -- Lost confidence restored -- Opposing extreme views -- Reaching for high standards -- On to world leadership -- Uniting with the temperance forces -- Training of physicians -- For medical missionary college -- Variant views arise -- Steps toward unity -- Final steps in separation -- A remarkable coincidence -- Rapid moves in southern California -- The call for a third sanitarium -- Purchase of Loma Linda property -- How the payments were met -- "An educational center" -- "We wait for light" -- A bold venture in faith -- Faith further tested -- Through "rivers of difficulty" -- Retrospective and prospective -- Guiding principles in dress reform.

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