重新开放巴特尔克里克学院，大机构的缺点
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重新开放巴特尔克里克学院，大机构的缺点
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The Reopening of Battle Creek College, and the Fault of Large Institutions
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1903年8月3日写于加利福尼亚州圣赫勒那
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St. Helena, Cal.,August 3, 1903.
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丹尼尔斯弟兄、普雷斯科特弟兄和W.C.怀特：
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Brethren Daniells, Prescott, and W. C. White:
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……我很遗憾听到有一个计划要重新开放巴特尔克里克学院。在得到如此清晰的警告不要在巴特尔克里克建立学院之后，还要在那里那建院，会犯大错误。{SpM 306.5}
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... I am very sorry to hear that there is a plan to reopen Battle Creek College. To establish a college in Battle Creek, after such plain warnings have been given against doing this, would be to make a great mistake.?{SpM 306.5}
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我可以向你们保证，疗养院的大量病人并不能证明这个机构就在它应该在的地方，也不能证明它是依照上帝的命令管理的。基督教导真理的计划不可能在像巴特克里克疗养院这样大的机构中执行，在那里有许多不同阶层的病人聚集在一起。在巴特尔克里克疗养院里，去那里接受治疗的人可能会有一些人归主，但是这些人会遇到比几乎其它任何地方都更大的困难。由于大量的病人，这个疗养院必须作为一个大旅馆来经营。各阶层的世俗人肯定在那里得到招待，使得工人们不断与一种会吸引他们离开基督的影响有联系。那些知道真理的人为什么不听从上帝已经赐下的指示呢？他们为什么不在还从未听过真理的地方开设工作站呢？我们应当祈求上帝帮助我们做祂的工作，就像在祂面前一样。{SpM 306.6}
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I can assure you that the large number of patients at the Sanitarium is no evidence that the institution is where it should be, or that it is conducted after God’s order. Christ’s plan for teaching truth can not be carried out in so large an institution as the Battle Creek Sanitarium, where so large a number of patients of all classes are gathered together. There may be some conversions at the Sanitarium at Battle Creek, among those who go there for treatment, but these will meet with greater difficulty than in almost any other place. Because of the large number of patients, this sanitarium is necessarily conducted as a large hotel. Worldlings of all classes are of course entertained there, and the helpers are constantly brought into connection with an influence that tends to draw them away from Christ. Oh, why can not those who know the?truth follow the instruction that God has given? Why do they not make plants in places that have never yet heard the truth? Let us pray to God for help to do His work as in his very presence.?{SpM 306.6}
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仇敌不知疲倦地努力欺骗人类，诱导他们远离上帝。他和他的天使将来会采取人的形状，努力使上帝的真理无效。……{SpM 307.1}
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The enemy works untiringly to deceive human beings, and lead them away from God. He and his angels will in the future assume the shape of human beings, and work to make the truth of God of no effect....?{SpM 307.1}
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那些知道真理却与真理背道而驰的人，可能决不会踏上基督所走的道路。{SpM 307.2}
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Those who know the truth, but who walk contrary to the truth, may never place their foot in the path that Christ followed.?{SpM 307.2}
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“基督释放了我们，叫我们得以自由。所以要站立得稳，不要再被奴仆的轭挟制”（加5:1）。任何男人或女人都不能约束自己在医疗协会的控制下服事一定的年限。这不是上帝的计划，而是人的计划。人的灵与魂与身子都属于上帝，他们应当受祂指导和控制。祂已买了我们。我们有义务成为与祂同工的人。谁也不应该约束自己在任何一个机构服事一定的年限。{SpM 307.3}
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We are to “stand fast in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.” No man or woman is to bind himself or herself to serve for a certain number of years under the control of a medical association. This is not God’s plan, but a plan of human devising. Human beings belong to the Lord, body, soul, and spirit, and they are to be guided and controlled by him. He has bought us. We are under obligation to be laborers together with him. No one should bind himself to serve for a certain number of years in any institution.?{SpM 307.3}
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我知道有些人认为我们疗养院的工人签订某些合同是明智的。但我也知道，工人们签署这些合同不符合上帝的计划。他们对上帝有承诺，要是祂感动他们将信息带到某个地方，难道他们要受一个保证约束，阻止他们前往吗？决不要这样，我们不是自己的人，我们不应通过签订合同去做这个或那个来将自己与人捆绑在一起。我们应当在我们的夫子基督耶稣的领导下工作，指望从祂得指示。我们应当祈祷、作工并相信，始终遵循祂所规划的道路。{SpM 307.4}
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I know that some have thought it advisable for the workers in our sanitariums to sign certain contracts. But I know also that it is not in accordance with God’s plan for the workers to sign these contracts. They are pledged to God, and if he moves upon them to take the message to a certain place, shall they be bound by a pledge that hinders them from going? Never, never, We are not our own, and we are not to bind ourselves to human beings by signing contracts to do this or that. We are to work under our Master, Christ Jesus, looking to him for directions. We are to pray and work and believe, following always the course that he marks out.?{SpM 307.4}
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在自称信徒的人中，有许多人对第三位天使的信息所包含的东西知之甚少。他们没有走真理的直路。他们没有藉着顺从主的道来洁净自己的心灵。他们没有归正。他们需要“趁耶和华可寻找的时候寻找祂，相近的时候求告祂。恶人当离弃自己的道路；不义的人当除掉自己的意念。归向耶和华，耶和华就必怜恤他；当归向我们的上帝，因为上帝必广行赦免”（赛55:6,7）。{SpM 307.5}
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There are among professing believers many who know little of what is comprehended in the third angel’s message. They have not followed the straight pathway of truth. They have not purified their souls by obeying the word. They are unconverted. They need to “seek the Lord while he may be found, and to call upon Him while he is near.” “Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts, and let him return unto the Lord, and he will have mercy upon him, and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.”?{SpM 307.5}
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我们的传道人需要这个信息。他们中间有些人的脚站在滑地。他们先在一个方向滑倒，然后在另一个方向滑倒，然后继续滑下去。愿上帝帮助他们踏上耶稣的足迹。{SpM 307.6}
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Our ministers need this message. There are among them those whose feet are standing in slippery places. They slip first one way and then another, and continue to slip and slide. May God help them to place their feet in the footprints of Jesus.?{SpM 307.6}
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我们的各教会正处于向老底嘉教会传达的信息中所描述的状况。他们既不冷也不热。他们需要一种全新的经验。上帝呼召他们为祂的到来作准备，因为这事临近了。{SpM 307.7}
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Our churches are in the condition described in the message to the Laodicean church. They are neither cold nor hot. They need a fresh, new experience. God calls upon them to prepare for his coming; for it is near at hand.?{SpM 307.7}
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怀爱伦Ellen G. White.