第1519号 要在奥克兰和芒廷维尤建..
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第1519号 要在奥克兰和芒廷维尤建..
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MR No. 1519 - Churches to Be Built in Oakland and Mountain View; Structures to Reflect Our Belief in Christs Soon Coming
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（1907年1月18日写于加利福尼亚州疗养院，致奥克兰教会的肢体们。本文稿的部分内容已发表在系列二，第9号和多卷《文稿发布》里）
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关于你们提议的教堂建筑，我必须写信给你。我对你们选择的位置感到很满意。它靠近市内的电车道，这样可方便远道而来的人。{21MR 93.1}[1]
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(Written January 18, 1907, from Sanitarium, California, to the members of the Oakland church. Portions of this manuscript have been printed in Series B, No. 9, and various Manuscript Releases.)
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I must write to you regarding your proposed church building. I am pleased with the site you have selected. It is near to the street railway, and thus very convenient for those who come from a distance. {21MR 93.1}[1]
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我奉命要就你们将要建造的礼拜堂传给你们警告的话。这是你们省察自己的时候，看看你们在这件事上是否站在正确的立场。{21MR 93.2}[2]
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I have been bidden to give you words of warning regarding the meetinghouse that you shall build. This is a time for you to examine yourselves to see if you are standing in the right position regarding this matter. {21MR 93.2}[2]
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我们在奥克兰需要一座教堂。不久就应当有一座简朴又经济的敬拜场所拔地而起了。奥克兰这里的弟兄姐妹应当藉着拒绝建造时尚昂贵的教堂而表明他们是敬畏主的。我们生活在危险的世代，上天的惩罚必接踵而至。我们要在我们的行为上显明我们相信上帝施行审判的时候到了，我们正临近有关这个世界上的任何事情都没有把握的时候。我们藉着我们的行为和见证，告诉人万物的结局近了。{21MR 93.3}[3]
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In Oakland we need a church building. Soon a simple and inexpensive place of worship should be erected. In this the brethren and sisters in Oakland are to show that they fear the Lord, by refusing to build a stylish and costly church. We are living in perilous times; judgment is to follow judgment. Let us now reveal in our works that we believe that the time of Gods judgments is come, that we are approaching the day when there will be no certainty regarding anything in this world. By our works as well as our testimony we are to tell that the end of all things is at hand. {21MR 93.3}[3]
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我们要留意在突然临到旧金山的灾难中发出的警告。奥克兰人不可使旧金山人有理由以为他们觉得很安全。然而你们若是在这个时候建起一座昂贵的大礼拜堂，他们就会那样理解你们的行动。{21MR 93.4}[4]
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We are to take heed to the warnings given in the calamity that has overtaken San Francisco. The people of Oakland must not give the people of San Francisco cause to think that they feel secure. But that is what they would understand your action to mean if at this time you should erect a large and costly meetinghouse. {21MR 93.4}[4]
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继旧金山的大地震之后会有其它地方的地震。要是过了一段时间之后，奥克兰变得如此邪恶以致灾难也临到这个城市，我们不必感到惊讶。{21MR 93.5}[5]
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The great earthquake of San Francisco is to be followed by earthquakes in other places. We need not be surprised if after a time Oakland should become so wicked that calamities will fall on this city also. {21MR 93.5}[5]
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那些并不相信主必快来的人正在建造而不停下来考虑一下为何主消灭了旧金山城的大部分地区；然而旧金山的领袖们并不是我们应当效法的模范。{21MR 93.6}[6]
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Those who do not believe that the Lord is coming soon are building without stopping to consider why the Lord wiped out a greater part of the city of San Francisco; but the leading men of San Francisco are no pattern for us to follow. {21MR 93.6}[6]
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这个时候有一件事会清楚地显露出来，有一个问题会得到清楚的解决——我们是可靠的基督徒还是仅仅有口头信仰的人。我们应当让人清楚地明白，我们视这场可怕的灾难为一位被得罪之上帝的打击，因为祂的财宝被人浪费在荣耀自我上了。要让我们的工作成为这个样子的：使人们能看出我们在今世不过是寄居的，我们是在寻求一个更美的家乡，就是天上的家乡。{21MR 93.7}[7]
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One thing will be plainly developed at this time, one question be clearly settled--whether we are solid Christians or merely professors. We should let it be well understood that we regard this terrible calamity as the stroke of an offended God, because His treasure has been lavishly spent to glorify self. Let our works be such that men can see that we are but sojourners here, that we are seeking a better country, even a heavenly. {21MR 93.7}[7]
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我们很可以为将来要有的事恐惧战兢。奥克兰的许多市民会被称在天平里，显出亏欠。你会在那群人里吗？你现在需要在生活和品格上显出福音的成圣，显出你相信基督不久就要在能力和大荣耀里降临。你愿意用真相信主复临的兆头来表明你的信心吗？{21MR 94.1}[8]
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We may well fear and tremble for the things that shall be in the future. Many of the citizens of Oakland will be weighed in the balances and found wanting. Would you be of that company? You need now to show in life and character the sanctification of the gospel and a belief in Christs soon coming in power and great glory. Will you show faith by genuine faith in the signs of the Lords second coming? {21MR 94.1}[8]
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我们要把真理带入我们一切的工作中；我们要藉着真理成圣，向死在罪恶过犯中的世界表明我们是圣洁的国民，特属上帝的子民，是被拣选的族类，热心行善。{21MR 94.2}[9]
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We are to bring the truth into all our works; we are to be sanctified through the truth, and show to a world dead in trespasses and sin that we are a holy nation, a peculiar people, a chosen generation, zealous of good works. {21MR 94.2}[9]
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基督之死得到成就，是要使我们藉着信祂而成为真正的基督徒。我们传达神圣真理的信息，并且藉着基督的义得以在祂里面合一，与世人分别，因我们的信仰特色而与世人不同，这些特色使我们成为上帝的后嗣，与基督同作后嗣。我们是基督的证人。我们因受洗誓言而有严肃的承诺，要为祂作证。我们藉着基督的功劳，要让我们的光照向世界，以便他们看见我们的好行为，便将荣耀归给我们在天上的父。{21MR 94.3}[10]
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The death of Christ was accomplished to make us genuine Christians through faith in Him. We carry a message of sacred truth, and through the righteousness of Christ we are to become one in Him, separate from the world, distinguished from it by the features of our faith that make us heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ. We are Christs witnesses. By our baptismal vow we are under solemn pledge to witness for Him. Through the merits of Christ we are to let our light shine forth to the world, that they, by seeing our good works, may glorify our Father which is in heaven. {21MR 94.3}[10]
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在这个时候在任何地方建立昂贵的礼拜堂都不符合我们的信仰。有许多地方不久就会不得不建礼拜堂，因此我们不应该把大笔金钱投在任何一个地方。{21MR 94.4}[11]
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At this time the building of costly meetinghouses in any place is not in accordance with our faith. There are many places where meetinghouses will soon have to be built, therefore we should not put large sums of money in any one place. {21MR 94.4}[11]
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在芒廷维尤非常需要一座礼拜堂，应当尽快建造起来。奥克兰教会需要帮助在芒廷维尤的弟兄姐妹们。要是能给这个姐妹教会五千美元建造一座合适的礼拜堂，这项事业就会立刻前进，两座礼拜堂就会很快完工。{21MR 94.5}[12]
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At Mountain View a meetinghouse is greatly needed, and should soon be built. The Oakland church will need to help the brethren and sisters in Mountain View. If five thousand dollars could be given for the building of a suitable meetinghouse for this sister church, the enterprise could go forward at once, and the two meetinghouses would soon be completed. {21MR 94.5}[12]
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凡帮助这项必要工作的人都必领受上帝的福气。我希望在奥克兰没有一个人会反对拨出一部分资金去帮助建造在芒廷维尤的礼拜堂。{21MR 94.6}[13]
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All who help in this essential work will receive the blessing of God. I hope that none in Oakland will object to appropriating a portion of the means to help in building the meetinghouse in Mountain View. {21MR 94.6}[13]
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愿主帮助、圣化并赐福在奥克兰和芒廷维尤的建堂工作。愿祂使人人都甘心乐意，乃是我的祈祷。主必赐福那些愿意联合一致地工作以推进这时候的工作的人。（《信函》1907年第10号）怀爱伦著作托管委员会1990年9月13日全文发表于马里兰州银泉市。{21MR 94.7}[14]
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May the Lord help and sanctify and bless in the work of building in Oakland and Mountain View. May all hearts he made willing, is my prayer. The Lord will certainly bless those who will work unitedly to carry forward this work at this time.--Letter 10, 1907 Ellen G. White Estate Silver Spring, Maryland September 13, 1990. Entire Letter. {21MR 94.7}[14]