上帝已指定的工作
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上帝已指定的工作
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The Work God Has Appointed
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1907年5月14日写于加利福尼亚州洛马林达，致P.T.马根教授：{SpM 411.2}
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Loma Linda, Cal.,May 14, 1907.Prof. P. T. Magan:?{SpM 411.2}
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亲爱的马根弟兄：Dear Brother Magan,
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我作明确的见证，就是你和你在麦迪逊的同工们在做上帝指定给你们的工作。你们心中起先对此有疑问，但随着你们的进步，你们能更清楚地看到主的道路了。{SpM 411.3}
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I bear positive testimony that you and your fellow workers in Madison are doing the work that God has appointed to you. There was at first in your mind a question regarding this, but as you have advanced, you have been able to see the way of the Lord more clearly.?{SpM 411.3}
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一些弟兄的反对或冷漠的态度已经创造了条件，使你们的工作比它本应该的更困难。你们没有从一些人得到许多鼓励的话，但主喜悦你们，因为你们没有轻易灰心。{SpM 411.4}
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The attitude of opposition or indifference on the part of some of your brethren has created conditions that have made your work more difficult than it should have been. You have not received from some many words of encouragement, but the Lord is pleased that you have not been easily discouraged.?{SpM 411.4}
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一些人怀有了这种想法：因为麦迪逊学校不属区会组织所有，就不应该允许那些负责这所学校的人呼吁我们的人提供开展他们的工作所非常需要的资金。这种想法需要纠正。在分配进入主的库的资金时，你们有权得到一部分，就像那些与其它按着主的指示推进的贫困事业有联系的人一样。{SpM 411.5}
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Some have entertained the idea that because the school at Madison is not owned by a conference organization, those who are in charge of the school should not be permitted to call upon our people for the means that is greatly needed to carry on their work. This idea needs to be corrected. In the distribution of the money that comes into the Lord’s treasury, you are entitled to a portion just as verily as are those connected with other needy enterprises that are carried forward in harmony with the Lord’s instruction.?{SpM 411.5}
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主耶稣总有一天会追究那些愿意如此捆住你们的手以致你们几乎不可能与主的吩咐和谐一致地行动之人的责任。“主说，银子是我的，金子也是我的，千山上的牲畜也是我的”（见 该2:8；诗50:10）。{SpM 411.6}
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The Lord Jesus will one day call to account those who would so tie your hands that it is almost impossible for you to move in harmony with the Lord’s biddings. “The silver and the gold is mine, saith the Lord, and the cattle upon a thousand hills.”?{SpM 411.6}
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你和你的同事并不是从事教育工作的新手，当你们处于压力之下，想要获得推进工作的资金时，你们有权要求你们所需要的东西，像其他人有权提出他们所从事之工作的需要一样。{SpM 411.7}
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You and your associates are not novices in educational work, and when you are in stress for means with which to advance the work, you are just as much entitled to ask for that which you need as are other men to present the necessities of the work in which they are engaged.?{SpM 411.7}
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你过去在上帝的工作上，为使资金流通做了许多事。你现在不必为接受礼物和乐意捐而感到不安；因为你在预备青年男女在主的葡萄园作工的事上会需要这些捐献。你在按照主的旨意开展这工作时，不应当始终有压力要知道如何获得所需要的资金以便前进。主禁止在忠心履行上帝所指定的本分的有经验的工人周围设置壁垒和束缚。{SpM 411.8}
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You have in the past done much to bring means into circulation in the work of God. And you need not now feel troubled about?accepting gifts and free-will offerings; for you will need them in the work of preparing young men and women to labor in the Lord’s vineyard. As you carry on this work in harmony with the Lord’s will, you are not to be kept on a constant strain to know how to secure the means you need in order to go forward. The Lord forbids the setting up of walls and bands around workers of experience who are faithfully acting their God-appointed part.?{SpM 411.8}
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许多宝贵的时间被浪费了，因为人为的规则和限制有时被置于上帝的计划和宗旨之上。我奉主的名，呼吁我们的区会工作人员加强、支持并与我们在麦迪逊的弟兄们协调一致地操劳，因为他们正在推进上帝所指定给他们的工作。{SpM 412.1}
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Much precious time has been lost because man-made rules and restrictions have been sometimes placed above the plans and purposes of God. In the name of the Lord I appeal to our conference workers to strengthen and support and labor in harmony with our brethren at Madison, who are carrying forward a work that God has appointed them.?{SpM 412.1}
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怀爱伦（签名）Ellen G. White.