1903年8月27日抄写
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1903年8月27日抄写
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Copy August 27, 1903.
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加利福尼亚州疗养院，“榆园”，1903年8月26日
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“Elmshaven” Sanitarium Cal.1903-8-26
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亲爱的格里格斯弟兄：
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Dear Brother Griggs:
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我收到了你8月18日的信函。昨天我给你发了一份电报，我在电报中告诉你要在《评论与通讯》上发表你所写那篇论巴特尔克里克学院重新开办的文章。我觉得只能同意发表这篇文章。主所赐给我的亮光说明我们的青年不应聚集在巴特尔克里克去接受教育，这亮光尤未改变。疗养院已在巴特尔克里克重建的事实并没有改变那亮光。就其影响来说，过去使巴特尔克里克不适合我们的青年受教的因素现在仍使它不适合我们青年的教育。{KC 8.7}
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I have received your letter of August 18. Yesterday I sent you a telegram, in which I told you to publish in the Review and Herald the articles you have written regarding the reopening of the Battle Creek College. I felt?that I could not but consent to the publication of this article. The light given me by the Lord—that our youth should not collect in Battle Creek to obtain their education has in no particular been changed. The fact that the Sanitarium has been rebuilt in Battle Creek does not change the light. All that in the past made Battle Creek a place unsuitable for our youth exists today, so far as influence is concerned.
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我听到消息说已经给我们各州的教会寄了信，特别劝导我们的青年与巴特尔克里克疗养院联络。信中请求我们各区会的领导人将最有前途的男女青年送到巴特尔克里克疗养院去作为护士受教育和训练。这是一种对抗主的忠告的努力。那些提出这些劝导的人正在与主的旨意背道而驰。{KC 9.1}
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Word has come to me that letters have been sent out to our churches in the different States, offering our youth special inducements to connect with the Battle Creek Sanitarium. The leading men in our conferences are requested to send their most promising young men and young women to the Battle Creek Sanitarium to be educated and trained as nurses. This is an effort to counter-work the counsel of the Lord. Those who present these inducements are working contrary to the will of the Lord.?{KC 9.1}
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要是疗养院是按照主的计划重建的，它现在就不会在巴特尔克里克。主允许疗养院被火灾毁掉，好消除将疗养院搬出巴特尔克里克的反对意见。祂的计划是不应该建一个大型建筑，而应在各个地区建立疗养站。这些较小的疗养院要建在能享受农用土地的益处与优势之处。上帝的计划是我们的疗养院和学校都要参与农业生产。我们的青少年需要从这方的工作获得教育。这是很好的，而且不仅很好——这是必不可少的——就是要努力在这方面实行上帝的计划。{KC 9.2}
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Had the Sanitarium been re-established in accordance with the Lord’s design, it would not now be in Battle Creek. The Lord permitted the Sanitarium to be destroyed by fire, to take away the objection raised to moving out of Battle Creek. It was His design, not that one large building should be erected, but that plans should be made in several places. These smaller sanitariums were to be established where they could have the benefit and advantage of land for agriculture purposes. It is God’s plan that agriculture shall be carried on in connection with our sanitariums and schools. Our youth need the education to be gained from this line of work. It is well and more than well—it is essential—that efforts be made to carry out the Lord’s plan in this respect.?{KC 9.2}
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当要求搬出巴特尔克里克的呼召临到时，就有人作出辩解说：“我们在这里，而且都安定下来了。要搬迁就不可能不会有巨大的花费。”{KC 9.3}
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When the call came to move out of Battle Creek, the plea was made, “We are here, and all settled. It would be an impossibility to move without enormous expense.”?{KC 9.3}
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主既允许火灾消灭了疗养院的建筑，从而就消除了实现祂旨意的最大的反对意见。后来却有一栋大楼，虽然设计不同，但能容纳同样多病人的大楼却在旧楼的原址上建起来了。自从这个机构开业以来，大量的人已经来到它这里。其中有些是病人，然而有些只是游客。然而在疗养院的大批人数并不是证据，不能证明上帝的旨意是这种局面应该存在。我们的疗养院的宗旨并不是成为世上的富人用膳寄宿的地方。{KC 9.4}
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The Lord permitted fire to consume the Sanitarium building and thus removed the greatest objection to fulfilling His purpose. Then a large building, different in design, but capable of accommodating as many patients, was erected on the same site as the old building. Since the opening of this institution a very large number of people have come to it. Some of these are patients, but some are merely tourists. But the large number at the Sanitarium is no evidence that it is the will of God that such a condition of things should be. Our Sanitariums were not designed to be boarding places for the rich people of the world.?{KC 9.4}
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在疗养院照顾大量病人需要大量青年，那些负责我们各教会的人便受邀将教会中最有前途的青年男女的名字寄到疗养院，以便疗养院的经理与这些青年沟通，邀请他们来疗养院上护士课。{KC 9.5}
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The care of the large number of guests at the Sanitarium requires a large number of youth, and those in charge of our churches are asked to send in to our Sanitarium the names of the most promising young men and young women in the church, that these youth may be communicated with by the managers of the Sanitarium, and invited to come to the Sanitarium to take the nurses’ course.?{KC 9.5}
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我要说，要当心采取什么行动。上帝的计划并不是应该把我们的青年叫到巴特尔克里克。叫他们到这个地方，让他们与高低贵贱各等世人交往，就像罗得带着他的家人进入所多玛。{KC 9.6}
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I would say, Be careful what moves are made. It is not God’s design that our youth should be called into Battle Creek. Calling them to this place, and associating them with worldly people of all grades, high and low, is like Lot taking his family into Sodom.?{KC 9.6}
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主说：让我们的青年在巴特尔克里克以外的某个地方受教育是为了他们的益处。祂宣布，祂的旨意是巴特尔克里克学院要搬到乡间某个地方。{KC 10.1}
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The Lord said, It is for the interest of our youth to be educated in some other place than Battle Creek. He declared it to be His will for the Battle Creek College to be removed to some place in the country.?{KC 10.1}
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当时我们的学校负有沉重的债务。我祈祷可以打开某条道路藉以偿清这些债务。基督听了我的祷告和其他许多人的祷告，便开了一条路。我蒙指示要将《基督比喻实训》的书稿送给我们的学校。我们的出版社要分享这个礼物，印刷并装订这本书，我们的人要花时间销售这本书。{KC 10.2}
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At this time there was a heavy burden on our schools. I prayed that some way might be opened whereby these debts would be lifted. But Christ heard my prayers and the prayers of many others, and a way was opened. I was instructed to give the manuscript of the book, “Christ’s Object Lessons” to our schools. Our publishing houses were to share in the gift by giving the work of printing and binding the book and our people were to sell it, and give their time.?{KC 10.2}
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主赐福了为解除我们学校债务而付出的努力，我得知已筹集了三十万美元清偿债物。在参与销售《基督比喻实训》时，学生和教会肢体们获得了一种极好的经验。他们既已无私地开始从事这项工作，大福气就临到了他们。许多人得到了如何销售我们的大部头的知识。主在这项工作中亲自与人们合作了。{KC 10.3}
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The Lord has blessed the effort put forth to relieve our schools from debt, and I am told that three hundred thousand dollars have been raised toward lifting the debt. While engaged in selling Christ[’s] Object Lessons, students and church members have obtained an excellent experience. As they have taken up this work disinterestedly great blessing has come to them. Many have gained a knowledge of how to handle our large books. The Lord himself has co-operated in this work.?{KC 10.3}
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约在赐下有关《基督比喻实训》的亮光的时候，主指示我在巴特尔克里克的学院应当搬出那个地方，建在别的某个地方。在巴特尔克里克有太多机构了。要在远离各城的不同地点建立较小的学校。{KC 10.4}
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It was about the time the light was given regarding “Christ’s Object Lessons” that the Lord instructed me that the College in Battle Creek should be removed from that place, and established in some other place. There were too many interests in Battle Creek. Smaller schools were to be established in different places away from the cities.?{KC 10.4}
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将学校建在贝林斯普林斯受到了上帝的表扬。在那个地方负责学校的人备受鼓励。{KC 10.5}
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The establishment of the school at Berrien Springs had the commendation of God. Those in charge of the school at that place have much to encourage them.?{KC 10.5}
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难道我们现在要让仇敌为我们管理吗？因为疗养院处在不应该在的地方，难道主的话就不重要了吗？难道我们要让我们所有区会各教会中的青年被叫到巴特尔克里克，变成俗人的仆人，因与社会上各等心中并不敬畏上帝的男女接触而损坏和丧失他们的单纯吗？这种男女会大量来到巴特尔克里克疗养院，也就会需要大量助理工人。主既多年来一直号召祂的子民迁离巴特尔克里克，负责我们各区会的人岂可让我们在远离巴特尔克里克的学校中能为主的工作得到装备的青年被吸引到巴特尔克里克吗？{KC 10.6}
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Shall we now let the enemy manage for us? Because the Sanitarium is where it should not be, shall the Word of the Lord be no account? Shall we allow the most intelligent of our youth in the churches throughout our conferences be called to Battle Creek, to become servants to worldlings, to be spoiled and robbed of their simplicity, by being brought in contact with men and women who have not the fear of God in their hearts? Such men and women will come in large numbers to Battle Creek Sanitarium, and a large number of helpers will be needed. Shall those in charge of our conferences allow our youth, who, in the schools away from Battle Creek could be fitted up for the Lord’s work, to be drawn to Battle Creek, when for many years the Lord has been calling upon His people to move away from Battle Creek.?{KC 10.6}
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人的头脑可能看不出号召许多家庭离开巴特尔克里克、定居在能做医疗布道工作之处的必要性。然而主已发言。我们岂可质疑祂的话吗？{KC 10.7}
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Human minds may not see the necessity for the call to families to leave Battle Creek, and settle in places where they can do medical missionary evangelistic work. But the Lord has spoken. Shall we question His word.?{KC 10.7}
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我们的青年要预备好负责教会学校，我们各教会的儿童要在这些学校中受教知道教育的基本原则。这是一项非常好的工作，要求最好的才能和最仔细的研究。我们的青年男女应该预备好去推进这方面的工作。那么我们岂可让我们最有前途的青年被叫去从事一项并不满足上帝规范的工作呢？{KC 10.8}
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Our youth are to be prepared to take charge of church school in which the children in our churches will be taught the first principles of education. This is a very nice work, demanding the highest ability and the most careful study. Our young men and young women should be preparing to advance this line of work. Then shall we allow our most promising youth to be called into a work that is not fulfilling the specifications of God??{KC 10.8}