William Samuel Sadler was an American surgeon, self-trained psychiatrist, and author who helped publish The Urantia Book. The book is said to have resulted from Sadler’s relationship with a man through whom he believed celestial beings spoke at night. Sadler extolled the value of prayer and religion but was skeptical of mediums, assisting debunker Howard Thurston, and embraced the scientific consensus on evolution. He eventually wrote over 40 books on a variety of medical and spiritual topics advocating a holistic approach to health.
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William Samuel Sadler was an American surgeon, self-trained psychiatrist, and author who helped publish The Urantia Book. The book is said to have resulted from Sadler’s relationship with a man through whom he believed celestial beings spoke at night. It is not known who wrote and edited the book, but several commentators have speculated that Sadler played a guiding role in its publication. Sadler extolled the value of prayer and religion but was skeptical of mediums, assisting debunker Howard Thurston, and embraced the scientific consensus on evolution. Although he was a committed member of the Seventh-day Adventist Church for almost twenty years, he left the denomination after it disfellowshipped his wife’s uncle in 1907. He eventually wrote over 40 books on a variety of medical and spiritual topics advocating a holistic approach to health. He died in Chicago, Illinois, in 1913. He was buried in Chicago’s Englewood Cemetery, next to his wife, Lena Celestia Kellogg, who he married in 1897. He is survived by his wife and their three children, all of whom are still alive today. He also leaves behind a wife and two daughters. The couple had no children of their own, but had two step-great-grandchildren who were adopted by the Kellogg family. He had a son and a daughter with his second wife, who was also a physician. He never had any children of his own; he was married to his third wife until his death in 1914.
He left behind a widow and four step-children, who are still living in Chicago and have three grandchildren. He lived in Chicago with his wife until he died in 1914, when he moved to a retirement home in suburban Chicago. He later moved to Michigan to live with his daughter and her husband. He worked at the Battle Creek Sanitarium, where he was mentored by health-food promoter John Harvey Kellogg. In 1894, he persuaded Kellogg’s brother, William, to establish the Life Boat Mission, a mission that sold his products through demonstrations in retail stores. In 1897, Sadler married Kellogg’s niece. He went on to become an evangelist, becoming an ordained minister in Chicago in 1901. In 1910, he went to Europe and studied psychiatry for a year under Sigmund Freud. In 1907, he became a highly paid, popular orator. He and his wife became speakers on the Chautauqua adult education circuit in 1907, and he became one of the most well-known orators in the country. In 1911, he wrote a book about the power of prayer, which was published by The Urantsia Foundation. In 1912, he published a second book on the same subject, which became a best-selling book. In 1913, he also wrote a third book about prayer, this time on the role of prayer in healing. In 1914, he co-founded the Lifeboat Mission and published Life Boat Magazine, which provided funds to provide funds for the mission.
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