1876年4月7日，星期五，加利福尼..
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1876年4月7日，星期五，加利福尼..
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Friday, April 7, 1876, Oakland, California, Ellen White to James White
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亲爱的丈夫：……我每天写一些，但不能超过半天只限于写作。{MR728 12.1}[1]
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Dear Husband,I am writing some every day but cannot confine myself to writing more than one-half a day.?{MR728 12.1}[1]
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昨天玛丽·克拉夫，小姑娘们[“小姑娘们”指艾迪和梅·沃林，玛丽·克拉夫的外甥女，由怀爱伦抚养]和我看望了巴布科克姐妹。我们走了很长一段路。……{MR728 12.2}[2]
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Yesterday Mary Clough, the little girls [The “little girls” were Addie and May Walling, Mary Clough’s nieces, who were raised by Ellen White.] and I visited Sister Babcock. We had quite a walk....?{MR728 12.2}[2]
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宝贵的题目充分地展开在我的脑海中。我倚靠上帝，祂帮助我写作。我超过玛丽大约二十四页。她抄写我的副本，做得挺好。必须要有清晰的责任感才能叫我放下这项工作去赴帐棚大会。在我去任何地方之前，我想至少完成一本书的写作。（《信函》1876年第4号1、4页）{MR728 12.3}[3]
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The precious subjects open to my mind well. I trust in God and He helps me to write. I am some twenty-four pages ahead of Mary. She does well with my copy. It will take a clear sense of duty to call me from this work to camp meetings. I mean to finish my writings, on one book at any rate, before I go anywhere.—Letter 4, 1876, pp. 1, 4.?{MR728 12.3}[3]