第03章 城市的挑战
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第03章 城市的挑战
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Chapter 3—Challenges of the City
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撒但在城市里的工作非常明显——撒但正忙着在我们拥挤的城市里作工。在混乱、冲突、劳资纠纷、和已经进入教会的伪善中可以见到他的作为。为了使人们没有时间从容地默想，撒但把他们带入了一轮一轮的寻欢作乐，又吃又喝之中。他使他们充满了野心，要作出一种会高抬自我的表现。世界正在逐步接近挪亚的日子所存在的景况。凡是能想到的罪恶，人们都犯下了。肉体的情欲、眼目的骄傲、自私的表现、权力的滥用、残忍的行为、以及用来促使人与联盟和工会联合——就是把他们自己捆成捆，等候末日大火的焚烧——的力量，所有这些都是撒但代理者的作为。人们把这种犯罪与愚蠢的循环称之为“生活”。……{MTC 33.1}[1]
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Satan’s Work Readily Evident in Cities.—Satan is busily at work in our crowded cities. His work is to be seen in the confusion, the strife and discord between labor and capital, and the hypocrisy that has come into the churches. That men may not take time to meditate, Satan leads them into a round of gaiety?and pleasure-seeking, of eating and drinking. He fills them with ambition to make an exhibition that will exalt self. Step by step, the world is reaching the conditions that existed in the days of Noah. Every conceivable crime is committed. The lust of the flesh, the pride of the eyes, the display of selfishness, the misuse of power, the cruelty, and the force used to cause men to unite with confederacies and unions—binding themselves up in bundles for the burning of the great fires of the last days—all these are the working of Satanic agencies. This round of crime and folly men call “life.” ...?{MTC 33.1}[1]
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世人的行为好像没有上帝一样，他们一心从事自私的追求，不久就会遭遇突然的毁灭，他们必不能逃脱。许多人会继续处在无忧无虑的自我满足之中，直到他们变得对生活感到非常厌烦，以致自杀。他们舞蹈狂欢，饮酒吸烟，放纵自己兽性的情欲。他们就象要被宰杀的牛一样。撒但正以其全副的技巧和魔力作工，要使人们盲目地向前行进，直到主站起来，从祂的居所出来，刑罚地上居民的罪孽，那时地必露出其中的血，不再掩盖被杀的。全世界似乎都在向死亡进军。——《文稿》1903年第39号（《布道论》26）{MTC 33.2}[2]
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The world, who act as though there were no God, absorbed in selfish pursuits, will soon experience sudden destruction, and shall not escape. Many continue in the careless gratification of self until they become so disgusted with life that they kill themselves. Dancing and carousing, drinking and smoking, indulging their animal passions, they go as an ox to the slaughter. Satan is working with all his art and enchantments to keep men marching blindly onward until the Lord arises out of His place to punish the inhabitants of earth for their iniquities, when the earth shall disclose her blood and no more cover her slain. The whole world appears to be in the march to death.—Manuscript 139, 1903?(Evangelism, 26).?{MTC 33.2}[2]
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撒但的爪牙组织起来反对上帝的律法——世人已结盟要反抗万军之耶和华。这些联盟必延续下去，直到基督离开祂在施恩座前作中保的地位，披上复仇的外袍为止。撒但的爪牙现今正在各城市之中，忙于将那班反对上帝律法的人组成党派。不少自命的圣徒和公认的不信者，都列身于这些党派中。上帝的百姓再也不能示弱了。我们必须时时提防，一刻也不能懈怠。——《教会证言》卷八42（1904）{MTC 34.1}[3]
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Satanic Agencies Organize Opposition to God’s Law.—Men have confederated to oppose the Lord of hosts. These confederacies will continue until Christ shall leave His place of intercession before the mercy seat and shall put on the garments of vengeance. Satanic agencies are in every city, busily organizing into parties those opposed to the law of God. Professed saints and avowed unbelievers take their stand with these parties. This is no time for the people of God to be weaklings. We cannot afford to be off our guard for one moment.—Testimonies For The Church 8:42. (1904)?{MTC 34.1}[3]
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善恶之间的斗争要延续到末时——在真理的使者所从事工作的重要都市中，善恶之间的斗争是非常剧烈的。保罗说：“因我们并不是与属血气的争战，乃是与那些执政的，掌权的，管辖这幽暗世界的……争战”（弗6:12）。上帝的教会与那些在恶天使管辖下的人之间必要一直斗争下去，直到末时。——《使徒行述》219（1911）{MTC 34.2}[4]
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Conflict Between Good and Evil Will Last as Long as Time Lasts.—Terrible is the struggle that takes place between the forces of good and of evil in important centers where the messengers of truth are called upon to labor. “We wrestle not against flesh and blood,” declares Paul, “but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world” (Ephesians 6:12). Till the close of time there will be a conflict between the church of God and those who are under the control of evil angels.—The Acts of the Apostles, 219. (1911)?{MTC 34.2}[4]
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撒但的爪牙增加城市工作的困难——我们不明白撒但的爪牙在这些大城市里工作的程度。把现代真理的信息传给人的工作越来越困难，需要有各种才能的新工人联合起来为百姓进行聪明的工作。——《信函》1909年第168号（《医疗布道论》300）{MTC 34.3}[5]
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Satanic Agencies Increase Difficulty of Working the Cities.—We do not realize the extent to which satanic agencies are at work in these large cities. The work of bringing the message of present truth before the people is becoming more and more difficult. It is essential that new and varied talents unite in intelligent labor for the people.—Letter 168, 1909?(Medical Ministry, 300).?{MTC 34.3}[5]
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贫困与失业
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人们受造是为享受天国的气氛——人类受造不是为要遭受贫穷、疾病和苦难，也不是为要疏忽不顾自己身体和精神的需要，而是为尊严、纯正和在今生有高尚的品格，也为了在不朽的来生有说不出来、满有荣光的大喜乐。上帝的怜悯遍满全地；人类若是愿意顺从自然律，现有的痛苦不幸十之有九都不会存在。健康与生命都被放纵食欲危害了。我们的祸患更多来自滥用丰富而非不足。我们各城镇中的年轻人被种种放纵不正当食欲的试探包围着。恶习镀了金；好像所多玛的苹果，外表光鲜，里面却是尘灰。——《森林公园记者》1879.3.30{MTC 34.4}[6]
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POVERTY AND UNEMPLOYMENT
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People Created for Heaven’s Atmosphere.—Men were not created to be subject to poverty, disease, and suffering, not for thoughtless inattention to their physical and spiritual wants, but for dignity, purity, and elevation of character in this life, and for joy unspeakable and full of glory in the future immortal life. The mercies?of God are distributed and diversified throughout the earth; and if man would be obedient to nature’s laws there would not be a tithe of the misery which now exists. Health and life are imperiled by the indulgence of appetite. Our woes more frequently spring from the improvident use of the abundance than from scarcity. Young men in our cities and towns are surrounded with temptations to indulge in perverted appetite. Vice is gilded over; like apples of Sodom, it appears beautiful without, but is ashes within.—Forest Park Reporter, March 30, 1879.?{MTC 34.4}[6]
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穷人的困境急需救援——在大城市里，有许多人所受的待遇连牛马都不如。试想家家户户拥挤在又暗、又脏、又潮湿、又狭小的住宅甚至地下室里。他们的孩子生在这种地方，长在这种地方，也死在这种糟糕的地方。他们看不见上帝所创造令人心旷神怡的自然美景。他们在罪恶堕落的环境中过着衣衫褴褛、食不果腹的生活。他们的品格受罪恶环境的熏陶。孩子们所听到的，是对上帝圣名的亵渎，和肮脏堕落的污言秽语。烟酒的气味，恶心的臭味，以及道德的堕落，扭曲了他们的感官。许多危害社会的罪犯，就是这样造就的。社会又将他们抛弃在痛苦和堕落之中。{MTC 35.1}[7]
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Plight of Poor Requires Urgent Assistance.—In the great cities are multitudes who receive less care and consideration than are given to dumb animals. Think of the families herded together in miserable tenements, many of them dark basements, reeking with dampness and filth. In these wretched places children are born and grow up and die. They see nothing of the beauty of natural things that God has created to delight the senses and uplift the soul. Ragged and half-starved, they live amid vice and depravity, molded in character by the wretchedness and sin that surround them. Children hear the name of God only in profanity. Foul speech, imprecations, and revilings fill their ears. The fumes of liquor and tobacco, sickening stenches, moral degradation, pervert their senses. Thus multitudes are trained to become criminals, foes to society that has abandoned them to misery and degradation.?{MTC 35.1}[7]
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住在城市贫民区的人，并不都是这样。敬畏上帝的人，往往中了专事欺诈同胞之徒的诡计，因疾病和不幸而陷入贫困的深渊。许多正直善良的人因缺乏职业的训练而贫穷潦倒。也有人因缺乏知识而无法与人生的困难作斗争。他们流落到都市中，往往找不到职业。声色之乐的包围，使他们陷入可怕的试探中。他们整天与卑鄙下流的恶人为伍。惟有藉着超凡脱俗的能力，他们才能避免坠入这个深渊。许多人坚贞不屈，宁可受苦也不愿犯罪。这等人特别需要帮助、同情和鼓励。——《服务真诠》189，190（1905）{MTC 35.2}[8]
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Not all the poor in the city slums are of this class. God-fearing men and women have been brought to the depths of poverty by illness or misfortune, often through the dishonest scheming of those who live by preying upon their fellows. Many who are upright and well-meaning become poor through lack of industrial training. Through ignorance they are unfitted to wrestle with the difficulties of life. Drifting into the cities, they are often unable to find employment. Surrounded by the sights and sounds of vice, they are subjected to terrible temptation. Herded and often classed with the vicious and degraded, it is only by a superhuman struggle,?a more than finite power, that they can be preserved from sinking to the same depths. Many hold fast their integrity, choosing to suffer rather than to sin. This class especially demand help, sympathy, and encouragement.—The Ministry of Healing, 189, 190. (1905)?{MTC 35.2}[8]
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穷人往往不知道到何处去求解脱——广大的群众在穷困之中挣扎着，因为迫于生计，只得拼命劳力，以期博得那些不足以供给生活上最低需要的微小工资。过度的劳力和人为的剥夺，加以前途无望，致使他们的担子愈显沉重。如果加上了痛苦和病患，则担子几乎难以承当了。他们被忧虑压迫所困，真不知到何处去求解脱。——《教会证言》卷九90（1909）{MTC 36.1}[9]
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Poor Often Know Not Where to Turn for Relief.—There are multitudes struggling with poverty, compelled to labor hard for small wages, unable to secure the barest necessities of life. Toil and deprivation, with no hope of better things, make their burden heavy. When pain and sickness are added, the burden is almost unbearable. Care-worn and oppressed, they know not where to turn for relief.—Testimonies For The Church 9:90. (1909)?{MTC 36.1}[9]
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富人剥削穷人
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富人靠压迫别人致富——仇敌在颠倒公义及使人类心中充满私利的欲望上，已经获得了成功，以致“公义站在远处；诚实在街上仆倒，正直也不得进入”（赛59:14）。在大城市之中，一方面有许多可怜无靠的穷人，连衣食住也几乎没有着落；但是在同一座城市中，也有一班锦衣玉食，穷奢极侈之辈，将其所有的金钱消耗在华贵的邸厦和自身的服饰上，或是更进一步，就是虚掷在放纵肉欲，沉湎烟酒，以及其他足以毁伤脑力，紊乱神经，与降低灵性的事物之中，那些穷困之人所发的呼声，已经达到上帝面前，而人们却仍在借着种种压迫勒索的手段，大肆聚敛钱财。——《教会证言》卷九11，12（1909）{MTC 36.2}[10]
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EXPLOITATION OF POOR BY RICH
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Rich Become Wealthy by Oppressing Others.—The enemy has succeeded in perverting justice and in filling men’s hearts with the desire for selfish gain. “Justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter” (Isaiah 59:14). In the great cities there are multitudes living in poverty and wretchedness, well nigh destitute of food, shelter, and clothing; while in the same cities are those who have more than heart could wish, who live luxuriously, spending their money on richly furnished houses, on personal adornment, or worse still, upon the gratification of sensual appetites, upon liquor, tobacco, and other things that destroy the powers of the brain, unbalance the mind, and debase the soul. The cries of starving humanity are coming up before God, while by every species of oppression and extortion men are piling up colossal fortunes.—Testimonies For The Church 9:11, 12. (1909)?{MTC 36.2}[10]
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上帝禁止利用剥削穷人发财——上帝的话不认可藉着欺压一等人而使另一等人致富的策略。圣经教训我们在一切业务经营上要设身处地地为别人着想，不仅只为自己考虑，也要为别人考虑。乘人之危，损人利己的行为与圣经的原则和戒律是背道而驰的。——《服务真诠》187（1905）{MTC 36.3}[11]
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God Forbids Enriching Self Through Exploitation of Poor.—God’s word sanctions no policy that will enrich one class by the oppression and suffering of another. In all our business transactions?it teaches us to put ourselves in the place of those with whom we are dealing, to look not only on our own things, but also on the things of others. He who would take advantage of another’s misfortunes in order to benefit himself, or who seeks to profit himself through another’s weakness or incompetence, is a transgressor both of the principles and of the precepts of the word of God.—The Ministry of Healing, 187. (1905)?{MTC 36.3}[11]
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禧年如同安息年促进社会平等——耶和华要在人过于贪爱产业和权势的心欲上加以限制。社会上若是有一班人不断地积攒财富，另一班人一直趋于贫乏落魄，就必产生许多的弊病。如果不加以限制，富人的势力就必发展到独占垄断的地步，而穷人虽然在上帝看来各方面都与富人有相同的价值，终必被他们较为兴盛的弟兄看为卑贱，并加以苦待。{MTC 37.1}[12]
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Sabbatical Year and Jubilee Promoted Social Equality.—The Lord would place a check upon the inordinate love of property and power. Great evils would result from the continued accumulation of wealth by one class, and the poverty and degradation of another. Without some restraint the power of the wealthy would become a monopoly, and the poor, though in every respect fully as worthy in God’s sight, would be regarded and treated as inferior to their more prosperous brethren.?{MTC 37.1}[12]
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这一种压迫必致惹起穷人的愤恨，使他们感到绝望，甚至铤而走险，如此就必败坏社会风纪，并打开各样罪恶的门户。上帝所设定的条例是要增进社会地位的平等。安息年和禧年的安排，必可大大矫正这期间国家在社会和政治问题上所发生的错误。——《先祖与先知》534（1890）{MTC 37.2}[13]
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The sense of this oppression would arouse the passions of the poorer class. There would be a feeling of despair and desperation which would tend to demoralize society and open the door to crimes of every description. The regulations that God established were designed to promote social equality. The provisions of the sabbatical year and the jubilee would, in a great measure, set right that which during the interval had gone wrong in the social and political economy of the nation.—Patriarchs and Prophets, 534. (1890)?{MTC 37.2}[13]
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一些人提供帮助
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同情地帮助穷人——善良慷慨的人热心关怀穷人的状况，要设法救济他们。帮助失业和无家可归的人，使他们同享上帝赐给人类的福气，过祂所希望人过的生活，这正是许多人热诚努力要解决的问题。但是能理解社会现状原因之人，即使在教育家和政治家中，也不多见。执政的人无法解决贫困和罪恶增多的问题。他们竭力想在更加稳固的基础上进行商业运作，却是枉然。——《服务真诠》183（1905）?{MTC 37.3}[14]
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SOME GIVE HELP
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Compassionate Help the Poor.—There are largehearted men and women who are anxiously considering the condition of the poor and what means can be found for their relief. How the unemployed and the homeless can be helped to secure the common blessings of God’s providence and to live the life He intended man to live is a question to which many are earnestly endeavoring to find an answer. But there are not many, even among educators?and statesmen, who comprehend the causes that underlie the present state of society. Those who hold the reins of government are unable to solve the problem of poverty, pauperism, and increasing crime. They are struggling in vain to place business operations on a more secure basis.—The Ministry of Healing, 183. (1905)?{MTC 37.3}[14]
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工会增加了城市的困难——由于托拉斯的活动，工会和罢工等事的结果，城市的生活情形就越来越艰难了。严重的困难正在我们面前；将有许多人家必须要搬到乡间去住。——《服务真诠》364（1905）{MTC 38.1}[15]
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TRADE UNIONS
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Unions Contribute to Increasing Difficulties in Cities.—Through the working of trusts, and the results of labor unions and strikes, the conditions of life in the city are constantly becoming more and more difficult. Serious troubles are before us; and for many families removal from the cities will become a necessity.—The Ministry of Healing, 364. (1905)?{MTC 38.1}[15]
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工人受到工会的威胁——在我们的各大城市里，会组建成各种同盟和工会。有人要管辖其他的人，提出很多要求。凡拒绝加入这些工会的人，生命会受到威胁。那位有能力拯救也有能力毁灭的主，正在为最后的大工进行一切的准备。——《文稿》1902年第145号（《怀爱伦文集》3:42）{MTC 38.2}[16]
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Workers Endangered From Unions.—In all our great cities there will be a binding up in bundles by the confederacies and unions formed. Man will rule other men and demand much of them. The lives of those who refuse to unite with these unions will be in peril. Everything is being prepared for the last great work to be done by the One mighty to save and mighty to destroy.—Manuscript 145, 1902?(Manuscript Releases 3:42).?{MTC 38.2}[16]
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参加工会妨碍遵守十诫——这些工会是末日的兆头之一。人们在把自己捆成捆，准备被焚烧。他们可能是教会的信徒，但他们既已参加这些组织，就不可能遵守上帝的诫命了；因为参加这些组织就意味着无视全部的十诫。——《信函》1903年第26号（《主必快来》182）{MTC 38.3}[17]
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Union Membership Prevents Keeping the Decalogue.—These unions are one of the signs of the last days. Men are binding up in bundles ready to be burned. They may be church members, but while they belong to these unions, they cannot possibly keep the commandments of God; for to belong to these unions means to disregard the entire Decalogue.—Letter 26, 1903?(Maranatha, 182).?{MTC 38.3}[17]
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撒但最后的努力之一就是组成各种工会——组成这些工会是撒但最后的努力之一。上帝呼召祂的子民离开城市，与世人分离。时候要到，他们将不得不这么做。上帝必照顾那些爱祂并遵守祂诫命的人。——《信函》1903年第26号?(《怀爱伦文集》3:43).?{MTC 38.4}[18]
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Among Satan’s Final Efforts Is Formation of Unions.—The forming of these unions is one of Satan’s last efforts. God calls upon His people to get out of the cities, isolating themselves from the world. The time will come when they will have to do this. God?will care for those who love Him and keep His commandments.—Letter 26, 1903?(Manuscript Releases 3:43).?{MTC 38.4}[18]
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接受流行文化的训练
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资源浪费在无价值的娱乐上——城市的生活是虚假而造作的。求财的厚欲、作乐的甜情、喧扰的兴奋、虚荣时尚的贪恋和奢华浮躁的追慕，以及人海潮涌般的忙乱，都使人的思想远离人生的真宗旨。它们正在敞开万恶的门户。这种诱惑，在青年人身上，有几乎不可抵抗的势力。{MTC 39.1}[19]
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TAINTED BY POPULAR CULTURE
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Resources Wasted on Worthless Amusements.—Life in the cities is false and artificial. The intense passion for money getting, the whirl of excitement and pleasure seeking, the thirst for display, the luxury and extravagance, all are forces that, with the great masses of mankind, are turning the mind from life’s true purpose. They are opening the door to a thousand evils. Upon the youth they have almost irresistible power.?{MTC 39.1}[19]
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城市对于青年和孩童最危险最诡诈的引诱之一，就是快乐的追求。休假的日子很多；赛马和种种竞技游戏的场所，挤满了千万的人，这种骚扰奋兴的空气，足使青年人志倒神迷。把人生正经的责任抛在脑后，把应该留作正用的金钱挥霍在娱乐上面。——《服务真诠》364（1905）{MTC 39.2}[20]
§51
One of the most subtle and dangerous temptations that assail the children and youth in the cities is the love of pleasure. Holidays are numerous; games and horse racing draw thousands, and the whirl of excitement and pleasure attracts them away from the sober duties of life. Money that should have been saved for better uses is frittered away for amusements.—The Ministry of Healing, 364. (1905)?{MTC 39.2}[20]
§52
城市变成所多玛和蛾摩拉——今日的城市很快就要变成所多玛和蛾摩拉。众多的节假日助长了游手好闲的风气。各种刺激性的娱乐——戏剧，赛马，赌博，酗酒，狂欢等——使人的情绪极度兴奋。青年人被这种世俗的潮流冲走了。人以娱乐为目的，就为试探的潮流打开了门户。他们专注于社交的宴乐和轻挑的游戏。与爱宴乐的人交往，令他们如痴如醉。他们从一种放纵被引到另一种放纵，直到失去了度有益人生的愿望和动力。他们的宗教热情消失了，属灵生活冷淡了。心灵中一切高贵的才能，以及与属灵世界联系的所有机能都毁损了。——《基督比喻实训》54，55（1900）?{MTC 39.3}[21]
§53
Cities Becoming Like Sodom and Gomorrah.—The cities of today are fast becoming like Sodom and Gomorrah. The many holidays encourage idleness. The exciting sports—theatergoing, horse racing, gambling, liquor-drinking, and reveling—stimulate every passion to intense activity. The youth are swept away by the popular current. Those who learn to love amusement for its own sake open the door to a flood of temptations. They give themselves up to social gaiety?and thoughtless mirth, and their intercourse??with pleasure lovers has an intoxicating effect upon the mind. They are led on from one form of dissipation to another, until they lose both the desire and the capacity for a life of usefulness. Their religious aspirations are chilled; their spiritual life is darkened. All the?nobler faculties of the soul, all that link man with the spiritual world, are debased.—Christ’s Object Lessons, 54, 55. (1900)?{MTC 39.3}[21]
§54
个人行动的自由不受尊重——这些城市的空气充满了有毒的污浊之气。个人行动的自由不受尊重；一个人的时间实际上不被认为是他自己的；人们指望他与别人做一样的事。……{MTC 40.1}[22]
§55
Freedom of Individual Action Not Respected.—The very atmosphere of these cities is full of poisonous malaria. The freedom of individual action is not respected; a man’s time is not regarded as really his own; he is expected to do as others do. ...?{MTC 40.1}[22]
§56
热心娱乐活动和过那么多的假日，给法院、官员和法官们带来了大量业务，助长了贫穷和卑劣，无以复加。——《教育特别证言》88（1897）{MTC 40.2}[23]
§57
The devotion to amusements and the observance of so many holidays give a large business to the courts, to officers and judges, and increase the poverty and squalor that need no increasing.—Special Testimonies On Education, 88. (1897)?{MTC 40.2}[23]
§58
无人监管的孩子结交有害的友伴——父母和他们的子女聚集到城市，因为他们想象在城市比在乡下更容易获得生计。孩子们放学之后无事可作，就获得了一种街头教育。他们从有害的交往当中学到了邪恶放荡的习惯。父母们见到这一切，但若想要纠正错误，就要作出牺牲，于是他们留在原处，直到撒但完全控制了他们的儿女。——《教会证言》卷五232（1882）{MTC 40.3}[24]
§59
Unsupervised Children Form Hurtful Associations.—Parents flock with their families to the cities because they fancy it easier to obtain a livelihood there than in the country. The children, having nothing to do when not in school, obtain a street education. From evil associates they acquire habits of vice and dissipation. The parents see all this; but it will require a sacrifice to correct their error, and they stay where they are until Satan gains full control of their children.—Testimonies For The Church 5:232. (1882)?{MTC 40.3}[24]
§60
污染往往危害健康——城市的环境，往往对于身体的健康是有害的。那污浊的空气，不清洁的水，不安全的食物，黑暗拥塞的房屋，以及随时疾病传染的危险，都不过是城市的一部分害处而已。上帝的旨意，不要人挤在城市之中，扎在狭小的巷子里面。——《服务真诠》365（1905）{MTC 40.4}[25]
§61
ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION
§62
Pollution Often Imperils Health.—The physical surroundings in the cities are often a peril to health. The constant liability to contact with disease, the prevalence of foul air, impure water, impure food, the crowded, dark, unhealthful dwellings, are some of the many evils to be met. It was not God’s purpose that people should be crowded into cities, huddled together in terraces and tenements.—The Ministry of Healing, 365. (1905)?{MTC 40.4}[25]
§63
城市的环境加剧了病人的健康问题——城市的喧嚷、兴奋和混乱，其中受拘束、不自然的生活，是最令病人厌烦疲惫的。城市的空气充满烟尘，含有许多毒素和病菌，于生命有害。病人大都关在屋子里，就象坐牢一样。睁开眼睛所看到的，是鳞次栉比的房屋，拥挤不堪的街道和熙熙攘攘的人群，也许根本看不到青天白日，树木花草。在这种封闭的环境中，他们只能怨病叹苦，累于忧思了。{MTC 40.5}[26]
§64
City Environment Compounds Health Problems for Sick.—The noise and excitement and confusion of the cities, their constrained and artificial life, are most wearisome and exhausting?to the sick. The air, laden with smoke and dust, with poisonous gases, and with germs of disease, is a peril to life. The sick, for the most part shut within four walls, come almost to feel as if they were prisoners in their rooms. They look out on houses and pavements and hurrying crowds, with perhaps not even a glimpse of blue sky or sunshine, of grass or flower or tree. Shut up in this way, they brood over their suffering and sorrow, and become a prey to their own sad thoughts.{MTC 40.5}[26]
§65
对于道德观念薄弱的人，城市的危险特别多。在城市里，食欲扭曲的病人不断遭到试探。他们需要到新的环境里改变思路。他们需要处于一种与败坏他们生活的影响完全不同的氛围中。他们要在一段时间里摆脱使他们离开上帝的影响，进入更纯洁的空气之中。——《服务真诠》262，263（1905）{MTC 41.1}[27]
§66
And for those who are weak in moral power, the cities abound in dangers. In them, patients who have unnatural appetites to overcome are continually exposed to temptation. They need to be placed amid new surroundings where the current of their thoughts will be changed; they need to be placed under influences wholly different from those that have wrecked their lives. Let them for a season be removed from those influences that lead away from God, into a purer atmosphere.—The Ministry of Healing, 262, 263. (1905)?{MTC 41.1}[27]
§67
罪恶与腐败
§68
到处罪病流行——我们生活在罪病流行的时代。凡是肯深思而又敬畏上帝的人，莫不为之胆战心惊。世上盛行的腐败之风；实非人笔墨所能形容。政治方面的争竞，贿赂，欺诈，日新月异；违法，暴力，对人类的痛苦漠不关心，无情无义，残害人命，这种种痛心的记录日有所闻。还有谋财害命，自杀，以及疯狂的事，更是日益增加。撒但的使者在人间的活动越演越烈，要扰乱和败坏人的心智，污染和摧毁人的身体，这一点还有什么可疑呢？{MTC 41.2}[28]
§69
CRIME AND CORRUPTION
§70
An “Epidemic of Crime” Exists Everywhere.—We are living in the midst of an “epidemic of crime,” at which thoughtful, God-fearing men everywhere stand aghast. The corruption that prevails, it is beyond the power of the human pen to describe. Every day brings fresh revelations of political strife, bribery, and fraud. Every day brings its heart-sickening record of violence and lawlessness, of indifference to human suffering, of brutal, fiendish destruction of human life. Every day testifies to the increase of insanity, murder, and suicide. Who can doubt that satanic agencies are at work among men with increasing activity to distract and corrupt the mind, and defile and destroy the body??{MTC 41.2}[28]
§71
世上充满了这些罪恶，福音却往往以冷漠的方式传扬，以致在人的良心和生活中没有留下什么印象。到处都有人渴望一种他们所没有的事物。——《服务真诠》142，143（1905）{MTC 41.3}[29]
§72
And while the world is filled with these evils, the gospel is too often presented in so indifferent a manner as to make but little impression upon the consciences or the lives of men. Everywhere there are hearts crying out for something which they have not.—The Ministry of Healing, 142, 143. (1905)?{MTC 41.3}[29]
§73
世界各地的城市都充满罪恶——世界上的一切城市，愈来愈变成罪恶汇聚之所了。淫声恶色，肉欲的引诱，和堕落的陷阱，比比皆是。犯罪作恶的潮流，接续膨胀不已。杀人、抢劫、自杀、以及种种莫可名状的罪恶，每天都有强暴的记录。——《服务真诠》363（1905）{MTC 42.1}[30]
§74
Cities Worldwide Full of Crime.—The world over, cities are becoming hotbeds of vice. On every hand are the sights and sounds of evil. Everywhere are enticements to sensuality and dissipation. The tide of corruption and crime is continually swelling. Every day brings the record of violence—robberies, murders, suicides, and crimes unnamable.—The Ministry of Healing, 363. (1905)?{MTC 42.1}[30]
§75
罪恶增加是因为拒绝上帝——故意犯罪的现象有增无减。各城市的居民很快就必卷入几乎普及的罪恶。……{MTC 42.2}[31]
§76
Increased Crime Results From Rejection of God.—There is coming rapidly and surely an almost universal guilt upon the inhabitants of the cities, because of the steady increase of determined wickedness. ...?{MTC 42.2}[31]
§77
撒但世世代代都设法使人看不出耶和华慈爱的旨意。他常设法使人不能认明上帝律法的伟大原则，就是祂律法所彰显公义，怜悯和慈爱的原则。世人常夸耀现代新奇的进步与文明；但上帝却看到全地充满了罪恶与强暴。世人声称上帝的律法已经作废，又说圣经的记载不可靠；结果全世界被罪恶的浪潮所扫荡。这种浪潮是自从挪亚和背道的以色列的日子以来所没有的。人竟出卖自己高贵的品质，温柔和敬虔的心，为要满足罪恶的情欲。人们为求利得而行出的罪恶实在足以令人毛骨悚然、不寒而栗。{MTC 42.3}[32]
§78
From age to age Satan has sought to keep men in ignorance of the beneficent designs of Jehovah. He has endeavored to remove from their sight the great things of God’s law—the principles of justice, mercy, and love therein set forth. Men boast of the wonderful progress and enlightenment of the age in which we are now living; but God sees the earth filled with iniquity and violence. Men declare that the law of God has been abrogated, that the Bible is not authentic; and as a result, a tide of evil, such as has not been seen since the days of Noah and of apostate Israel, is sweeping over the world. Nobility of soul, gentleness, piety, are bartered away to gratify the lust for forbidden things. The black record of crime committed for the sake of gain is enough to chill the blood and fill the soul with horror.?{MTC 42.3}[32]
§79
我们的上帝乃是有怜悯的上帝。祂以恒久的忍耐和温柔的慈爱看待一切干犯祂律法的人。但在现时代，人人既有很多机会可以认识圣经中所显示上帝的律法，宇宙的统治者就不能容忍罪恶城市中的强暴和邪恶了。上帝对于那些怙恶不悛之人的忍耐很快就要到达尽头了。——《先知与君王》275，276（1917）{MTC 42.4}[33]
§80
Our God is a God of mercy. With long-sufferance and tender compassion He deals with the transgressors of His law. And yet, in this our day, when men and women have so many opportunities for becoming familiar with the divine law as revealed in Holy Writ, the great Ruler of the universe cannot behold with any satisfaction the wicked cities, where reign violence and crime. The end of God’s forbearance with those who persist in disobedience is approaching rapidly.—Prophets and Kings, 275, 276. (1917)?{MTC 42.4}[33]
§81
城市的罪恶不断增长——我们各城市中的青年呼吸着被罪恶污染了的空气。邪恶的影响就传到乡间，于是整个社会都被污染了。官长们不是具有道德价值的人，却是满得今世财物供应的人，他们既不想也不愿制止这种毒根的生长，于是毒根便年年增长，并且被如今遍地销行的书刊和报纸上对种种犯罪行为的描写培育滋养着。——《文稿》1895年第13号?(《怀爱伦文集》10:226)?{MTC 42.5}[34]
§82
Crime in Cities Continually Increasing.—The youth of our cities breathe in the tainted, polluted atmosphere of crime. The evil influence is then communicated to the country, and the whole?community becomes contaminated. The rulers are not men of moral worth, but men who are well supplied with this world’s goods, and they have neither the desire nor the inclination to check the growth of this root of bitterness which is increasing year by year, and is fostered and fed by just such publications as are now being sold everywhere, and by such stories and descriptions of criminal practices as are found in the papers of the day.—Manuscript 13, 1895(Manuscript Releases 10:226).?{MTC 42.5}[34]
§83
上帝慈怜地看待少年犯——他们（成人和其他青少年）看少年犯是弱了、废了、没有道德力量的，只会把他们的恶习传给别人的道德废人。父母伤透了心。弟兄姐妹和亲戚们说到这些可怜人是不可救药的，但上帝却……忧伤慈怜地看待他们。祂了解导致他们陷入试探、使他们与上帝隔绝的一切详情。这世代的年轻人怎能逃避下述恶行的可怕羞耻呢？——荒废上帝所赐的产业，象以扫一样出卖自己的长子名分，辜负造福人类的神圣委托。他们沉湎于不节制的食欲，且因贪得钱财而陷入不诚实的行为中。{MTC 43.1}[35]
§84
God Looks With Tenderness Upon Youthful Evildoers.—They see them?enfeebled, dilapidated, without moral force, moral wrecks to communicate their evil practices to others. Parents’ hearts are broken. Brothers and sisters and relatives speak of these poor souls as hopeless, but God looks upon them with ... sorrow and tenderness. He understands all the circumstances which have led them into temptation, which have separated them from God. How can the youth of this generation escape the terrible dishonor of wasting their inheritance given them of God, selling their birthright as did Esau ..., betraying sacred interests entrusted to them for the blessing of humanity? They indulge in intemperate appetites and through greed to obtain money fall into dishonest practices.?{MTC 43.1}[35]
§85
需要使这些可怜的人接触崇高、纯洁的圣经原则。然而恢复的工作必须先开始于让他们吃有益健康的食物，给他们提供便利清洁自己的身体和衣服，于是他们就会开始产生一些感恩之情。——《文稿》1897年第14a号。{MTC 43.2}[36]
§86
These poor souls need to be brought into connection with high, pure, Bible principles. But first the restoration work must commence in giving them healthful food, and furnishing them facilities for clean bodies and clean clothing, and some sparks of gratitude will begin to flash forth.—Manuscript 14a, 1897.?{MTC 43.2}[36]
§87
上帝对城市的惩罚
§88
违法招致上帝的惩罚——1906年4月16日，我在加利福尼亚州洛马林达时，得到一个极其奇异的启示。在夜间的异象中，我站在一个高处，从那里我看见许多房屋都在震动，好像芦苇迎风起伏一般。大小房屋都向地倾倒。游乐场，剧院，旅馆，和富人的邸宅，都被震动而坍倒。许多人因之丧生，空中充满了惊恐和受伤之人的哀号。?{MTC 43.3}[37]
§89
GOD’S JUDGMENT ON THE CITIES
§90
Lawbreaking Brings God’s Judgments.—While at Loma Linda, California, April 16, 1906, there passed before me a most wonderful representation. During a vision of the night, I stood on?an eminence, from which I could see houses shaken like a reed in the wind. Buildings, great and small, were falling to the ground. Pleasure resorts, theaters, hotels, and the homes of the wealthy were shaken and shattered. Many lives were blotted out of existence, and the air was filled with the shrieks of the injured and the terrified.?{MTC 43.3}[37]
§91
上帝行毁灭的天使正在作工。他们只一动手，所建筑的十分完善而认为不怕任何危险的房屋，无不立刻化成瓦砾场。无论何处都没有安全的保障。当时我虽不觉得有特殊危险，但我所眼见的可怕景象，实在是非言词所能形容的。正好像上帝的宽容已尽，实行审判的日子已经到了。{MTC 44.1}[38]
§92
The destroying angels of God were at work. One touch, and buildings, so thoroughly constructed that men regarded them as secure against every danger, quickly became heaps of rubbish. There was no assurance of safety in any place. I did not feel in any special peril, but the awfulness of the scenes that passed before me I cannot find words to describe. It seemed that the forbearance of God was exhausted and that the judgment day had come.?{MTC 44.1}[38]
§93
那位站在我身边的天使指示我说，没有几个人能想象得到现今世上存在的罪恶，尤其是各大城市中的罪恶。他说主已经指定了一个日子，要在忿怒中刑罚那执意蔑视祂律法的犯法者。{MTC 44.2}[39]
§94
The angel that stood at my side then instructed me that but few have any conception of the wickedness existing in our world today, and especially the wickedness in the large cities. He declared that the Lord has appointed a time when He will visit transgressors in wrath for persistent disregard of His law.?{MTC 44.2}[39]
§95
那时我所看见的景象实在可怕，而所给我关于这事的教训，更是极其强烈地深印于我脑海之中。那位站在我身边的天使又宣称上帝至高的统治权和祂律法的神圣性，必须要向凡顽固成性而不肯服从这位万王之王的人显示。凡自暴自弃甘心不忠诚的人，必在慈怜中受着刑罚，以致若果可能的话，他们也会猛省回头，觉悟自己行为的罪大恶极。——《教会证言》卷九92，93（1909）{MTC 44.2}[40]
§96
Terrible as was the representation that passed before me, that which impressed itself most vividly upon my mind was the instruction given in connection with it. The angel that stood by my side declared that God’s supreme rulership and the sacredness of His law must be revealed to those who persistently refused to render obedience to the King of kings. Those who choose to remain disloyal must be visited in mercy with judgments, in order that, if possible, they may be aroused to a realization of the sinfulness of their course.—Testimonies For The Church 9:92, 93. (1909)?{MTC 44.3}[40]
§97
罪恶没有被限定在哪个特殊的城市——想想旧金山那座城市。是什么使那座城市遭受了上帝的报应呢？我们在身居高位的人显出的腐败中发现了答案。各方面都发现有腐败、醉酒和抢夺的事。而且不独在旧金山有这种罪恶的状况。我们拥有真理的人明白这些状况和事件的意义。{MTC 44.4}[41]
§98
Wickedness Not Restricted to Any Specific City.—Consider the city of San Francisco. What was it that brought the judgments of God upon that city? We read the answer in the revelations that have been made of corruption in those who stood in high office. Corruption and drunkenness and robbery are discovered on every hand. And this condition of wickedness is not in San Francisco alone. We who have the truth understand the meaning of these conditions and events.?{MTC 44.4}[41]
§99
我们正生活在这世界历史最后一晚。现在难道不是每一个人都应当使自己与上帝有正确的关系，好尽个人的本分建立基督国度的时候吗？——《文稿》1909年第73号(《证道与演讲》2:314,315).{MTC 45.1}[42]
§100
We are living in the last evening of this earth’s history. Is it not time that every soul place himself in right relation to God to act an individual part for the upbuilding of the kingdom of Christ?—Manuscript 73, 1909?(Sermons and Talks 2:314, 315).?{MTC 45.1}[42]
§101
耸人听闻的言论阻碍传道工作
§102
不要发表耸人听闻的言论——“几年前，一位在纽约作工的弟兄发表了一些有关纽约毁灭的耸人听闻的布告。我立即写信给负责那里工作的人，说发表这种布告是不明智的，因为这样可能会引起一种兴奋，导致狂热的运动，危害上帝的圣工。对人传圣经的真理就足够了。耸人听闻的布告对上帝圣工的推进是有害的。”......{MTC 45.2}[43]
§103
SENSATIONAL CLAIMS HINDER CITY EVANGELISM
§104
Startling Claims Not to Be Made.—“Not many years ago, a brother laboring in New York City published some very startling notices regarding the destruction of that city. I wrote immediately to the ones in charge of the work there, saying that it was not wise to publish such notices; that thus an excitement might be aroused which would result in a fanatical movement, hurting the cause of God. It is enough to present the truth of the word of God to the people. Startling notices are detrimental to the progress of the work.” ...?{MTC 45.2}[43]
§105
“如今有话说我已宣布纽约会被一场海啸扫荡。这是我从未说过的。当我看到那里一层接一层地盖起大楼时，曾说过：‘当主起来，可怕地震动大地的时候，将会发生何等可怕的景象啊！那时启18:1-3的话就会应验。’《启示录》18章一整章都是关于将要临到地上之事的警告。但关于纽约将要临到什么事，我没有特别的亮光，我只知道有一天那些大厦会被上帝翻转倾覆的能力所摧毁。根据所赐给我的亮光，我知道毁灭的事已在世上。主说一句话，祂大能的一次触摸，就会使这些巨大的建筑物倒塌。将要发生的场景可怕得让我们无法想象。”……{MTC 45.3}[44]
§106
“Now comes the word that I have declared that New York is to be swept away by a tidal wave. This I have never said. I have said, as I looked at the great buildings going up there, story after story: ‘What terrible scenes will take place when the Lord shall arise to shake terribly the earth! Then the words of?Revelation 18:1-3?will be fulfilled.’ The whole of the eighteenth chapter of Revelation is a warning of what is coming on the earth. But I have no light in particular in regard to what is coming on New York, only I know that one day the great buildings there will be thrown down by the turning and overturning of God’s power. From the light given me, I know that destruction is in the world. One word from the Lord, one touch of His mighty power, and these massive structures will fall. Scenes will take place the fearfulness of which we cannot imagine.” ...?{MTC 45.3}[44]
§107
“有许多的人是上帝的灵正在争取的。上帝施行毁灭报应之时，也正是一般还没有机会认识真理之人的恩典时期。主以慈怜的心肠垂顾他们。祂动了慈心，仍旧伸着手要拯救他们。”......{MTC 45.4}[45]
§108
“There are many with whom the Spirit of God is striving. The time of God’s destructive judgments is the time of mercy for those who have no opportunity to learn what is truth. Tenderly will the Lord look upon them. His heart of mercy is touched; His hand is still stretched out to save.” ...?{MTC 45.4}[45]
§109
“我上次在纽约的时候，在夜间异像中见有许多摩天大厦，层层相叠，高耸入云。这些房子都有防火设施。建筑者和屋主造这房屋的宗旨，乃是要荣耀自己。这些房屋愈造愈高，用了许多最贵重的材料。……{MTC 46.1}[46]
§110
“When I was last in New York, I was in the night season called upon to behold buildings rising story after story toward heaven. These buildings were warranted to be fireproof, and they were erected to glorify the owners. Higher and still higher these buildings rose, and in them the most costly material was used. ...?{MTC 46.1}[46]
§111
“当这些矗立的大厦造成时，业主们就都傲然自视，十分得意，觉得拥有金钱可用来荣耀自己。……他们所用的金钱大半是以勒索的手段从贫民身上压榨出来的。天上对于人类的每一项事务处理都有记载。凡是不公平的事情和欺诈的行为，无不一一记下。时候将到，这些诡诈傲慢的人，必走到一个主再不能容忍他们的地步，那时他们才会知道，耶和华的宽容也是有限度的。{MTC 46.2}[47]
§112
“As these lofty buildings went up, the owners rejoiced with ambitious pride that they had money to use in glorifying self. ... Much of the money that they thus invested had been obtained through exaction, through grinding the faces of the poor. In the books of heaven, an account of every business transaction is kept. There every unjust deal, every fraudulent act, is recorded. The time is coming when in their fraud and insolence men will reach a point that the Lord will not permit them to pass, and they will learn that there is a limit to the forbearance of Jehovah.?{MTC 46.2}[47]
§113
“此后，我忽然听见失火的警报。人们望着这些想来能防火的大厦说：‘不要紧，这些房子是绝对不会有危险的。’岂知这些房子却完全被火烧净，好像是松脂做的一样。消防车不能扑灭火势，消防队也无济于事。{MTC 46.3}[48]
§114
“The scene that next passed before me was an alarm of fire. Men looked at lofty and supposedly fireproof buildings, and said, ‘They are perfectly safe.’ But these buildings were consumed as if made of pitch. The fire engines could do nothing to stay the destruction. The firemen were unable to operate the engines.?{MTC 46.3}[48]
§115
“我蒙指示，知道人们骄傲好大的心若不改变过来，及至主的时期一到，他们就要晓得那有力量施行拯救的手，也有力量施行毁灭，世界上没有什么能力可以阻止上帝的手。世上没有什么材料可以造成上帝所不能毁灭的建筑物，到了上帝所预定的时期，祂就要因世人的傲慢蛮横和对祂律法的漠视而施以报应。——《怀爱伦自传》411-414（1915；引文写自1903,1904,1906）{MTC 46.4}[49]
§116
“I am instructed that when the Lord’s time comes, should no change have taken place in the hearts of proud, ambitious human beings, men will find that the hand that has been strong to save will be strong to destroy. No earthly power can stay the hand of God. No material can be used in the erection of buildings that will preserve them from destruction when God’s appointed time comes to send retribution on men for their insolence and their disregard of His law.”—Life Sketches of Ellen G. White, 411-414. (1915; extracts from 1903, 1904, 1906)?{MTC 46.4}[49]