帮助麦迪逊学校
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帮助麦迪逊学校
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Helping the Madison School
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1907年2月5日写于加利福尼亚州纳帕县疗养院
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Sanitarium, Napa Co., Cal.,February 5, 1907.
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致E.G.海耶斯长老Elder E. G. Hayes:亲爱的弟兄：Dear Brother,
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我写信是请你对麦迪逊的学校感兴趣。（萨瑟兰弟兄和马根弟兄勤奋工作，远远超出了他们的力量，在这地方开展学校的工作，这是主所命定的。他们努力建立一所学校，使青年男女能够在南方园地担任宣教士。）{SpM 398.5}
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I write to ask you to interest yourself in the school at Madison. (Brethren Sutherland and Magan worked diligently, far beyond their strength, to open up the school work in this place, which is of the Lord’s appointment. They have endeavored to establish a school that would fit young men and young women to act as missionaries in the Southern field.)?{SpM 398.5}
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目前，他们应该有五千美元，使他们能够为这项工作提供适当的设施，而且还应该提供更多，以便能够建造一个与学校有关的小型疗养院。{SpM 398.6}
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At the present time they should have five thousand dollars to enable them to provide suitable facilities for the work, and still more should be provided, in order that a small sanitarium?may be connected with the school.?{SpM 398.6}
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与这项工作的需要和重要性相比，到目前为止，他们在这项工作中得到的帮助很少。他们努力工作，并制定了必要的教育计划，使工人们能够教导无知的人，并解释圣经。除了学习书本，学生们还受教导去耕田、建房子和从事其它有用的劳动。{SpM 399.1}
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So far they have received very little help in this enterprise, compared with the needs and importance of the work. They have worked hard, and have laid plans for such an education as is essential to prepare workers to be able to teach the ignorant, and to explain the Scriptures. Besides the study of books, the students are taught to till the soil, to build houses, and to perform other useful labor.?{SpM 399.1}
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麦迪逊学校的地理位置很好，对学校的工作具有很大的优势。但是这项工作的领导们负担太重了，应该从他们所承受的巨大焦虑中解脱出来，因为缺乏资金来做必须做的事情来为一个成功的学校提供合适的条件。{SpM 399.2}
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The location of the Madison school is excellent, and possesses great advantages for the school work. But the leaders in this work are carrying too heavy a burden, and should be relieved from the great anxiety that has rested upon them, because of a lack of means with which to do what must be done to provide suitable conditions for a successful school.?{SpM 399.2}
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难道我们要让这些工人承受他们所不能承受的重担，让他们几乎独自推进一项应该得到他们的弟兄们真诚合作的工作吗？{SpM 399.3}
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Shall we allow these workers to be burdened beyond their strength, carrying forward almost alone a work in which they should receive the hearty co-operation of their brethren.?{SpM 399.3}
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我呼吁南达科他州的弟兄们在这个紧急状态中提供帮助，并向麦迪逊学校赠送一份慷慨的礼物，使他们可以建造一座教堂和学校大楼。这样的建筑物早就应该由他们提供。我们不应该让这些人在目前的不利条件下工作，因为时间太宝贵了，而南方对训练有素的工人的需求是如此之大。{SpM 399.4}
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I appeal to our brethren in South Dakota to help in this emergency, and make a liberal gift to the Madison School, that they may erect a chapel and school building. Such a building should have been provided from them long ago. Let us not leave these men to work under present disadvantages, when time is too precious, and the need for trained workers in the South is so great.?{SpM 399.4}
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南方的工作不幸遭到忽视。我们的各教会早该觉醒自己对这个贫穷园地的本分。亮光必须照耀在无知与迷信的道德黑暗中。必须简明地将真理带到那些无知的人面前。{SpM 399.5}
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The work in the south has been sadly neglected. It is high time that our churches were awakened to their duty to this needy field. The light must shine forth amid the moral darkness of ignorance and superstition. The truth in its simplicity must be brought to those who are in ignorance.?{SpM 399.5}
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在普通学校里教的一些东西是阻碍而不是福气。我们需要以上帝的工作为教育基础的学校。麦迪逊教师培训学校应该得到上帝子民的衷心支持。因此，我请你和你在区会委员会的同事们采取慷慨行动，帮助我们在麦迪逊的弟兄们开展这项重要工作。{SpM 399.6}
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In the common schools some things are taught that are a hindrance rather than a blessing. We need schools where the work of God is made the basis of education. The Madison Training School for teachers should have the hearty support of God’s people. Therefore I ask you and your associates on the conference committee to act liberally in helping our brethren in Madison in this important work.?{SpM 399.6}
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怀爱伦（签名）Ellen G. White.