分开大群人
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分开大群人
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A Division of Large Companies
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1908年9月10日写于加利福尼亚州疗养院
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Sanitarium, Cal.,Sept. 10, 1908.
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致R.A.安德伍德长老
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Elder R. A. Underwood:
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亲爱的安德伍德弟兄：
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Dear Brother Underwood,
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在我们历史的这一阶段，有一项伟大的工作要做。我蒙指示看到，有一些地方，远离城市，我们为我们的学校买下那里的建筑物是明智的。有些地方应该买下来，应该将每一可能的才干都用来开展主已赐给我们去做的工作。{SpM 440.1}
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There is a great work to be done at this stage of our history. I have been shown that there are places, away from our cities, where are buildings that it would be wise for us to secure for our schools. There are places that should be purchased, and every talent possible should be used to carry on the work that the Lord has given us to do.?{SpM 440.1}
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我们看到人们在做出坚决的努力要确立一周的第一日为全世界的安息日，取代耶和华的安息日。他们在做这件事的时候，有一件事正在天上的会议上进行，要给那些相信并遵守耶和华的话的人带来好处。{SpM 440.2}
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We see determined efforts being made to establish the first day of the week as the Sabbath for all the world, in place of the Sabbath of the Lord. And while this is being done, a work is going forward in the councils of heaven to bring advantages to the people who believe and obey the word of the Lord.?{SpM 440.2}
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主确实正在为我们开辟道路，使我们那些过分庞大，无法为最大的利益而一起工作的机构划分开再分开。这种分开的工作是应当完成的，不仅使学生可以得到更大的好处，而且使教师可以受益，得以保全生命和健康。建立另一所学校比进一步扩大林肯的学校要好。要让另一个地方拥有我们其中一个教育机构的优势。要使它得到最优秀的人才，并防范学校过度拥挤的危险。{SpM 440.3}
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The Lord is certainly opening the way for us as a people to divide and subdivide the companies that have been growing too large to work together to the greatest advantage. And this dividing should be done, not only that the students may have greater advantages, but that the teachers may be benefitted, and life and health spared. To establish another school will be better than further enlargement of the school at Lincoln. Let another locality have the advantage of one of our educational institutions. Secure for it the best talent, and guard against the dangers of an overcrowded school.?{SpM 440.3}
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我国各地都应该受警告，知道我们所处的时代。当在新地区建立学校时，许多人就会开始了解我们信仰的缘由。在计划我们的学校工作时，我们应当为信徒和非信徒的益处作工，以便真理临到许多现在还对它一无所知的人家。{SpM 440.4}
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All parts of our country are to be warned of the time in which we live. As schools are established in new localities, many will become acquainted with the reasons of our faith. In planning our school work, we are to work to benefit both believers and unbelievers, that the truth may come to the homes of many who are now in ignorance of it.?{SpM 440.4}
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应当仔细地、虔诚地考虑分开的工作。在农村地区，房产将以低于实际成本的价格出售，因为业主希望获得城市的优势，而我们希望为我们的学校获得这些农村地区，这样学生就可以远离城市生活的诱惑。如果在这些地方有土地要耕种，有房屋要建造，这些工作就会对学生很有好处。当我们被赶出城市，或者被派到其它国家时，在我们的学校所学的专业可能会产生有利于真理的影响。{SpM 440.5}
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Let the work of dividing be carefully and prayerfully considered. Properties will be offered for sale in the rural districts at a price below the real cost, because the owners desire city advantages, and it is these rural locations that we desire to obtain for our schools, that the students may be away from the temptations of city life. If in these places there is land to be worked and buildings to be erected, this work will be of great benefit to the students. When driven from the cities, or when sent to other countries, the trades learned in our school may be made an influence in favor of the truth.?{SpM 440.5}
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当我们分开我们的学校时，我们应该设法使它们越来越像先知的学校。我们应该越来越多地把圣经作为伟大的教材。无论我们现在在哪里建立学校，学生们都应成为最彻底的圣经学生。如果他们愿意成为行道的人，如果他们愿意深挖，奠定稳固根基，顺从上帝所有的要求，他们就会预备好毕业升入更高的学校。{SpM 440.6}
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As we divide our schools, we should seek to make them more and more like the schools of the prophets. More and more we are to make the Bible the great lesson book. Wherever our schools are established now, the students are to become most thorough students of the Bible. If they will become doers of the Word, if they will dig deep, laying their foundations sure to obedience to all the requirements of God, they will be preparing to graduate to the higher school.?{SpM 440.6}
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怀爱伦Ellen G. White.