关于纳什维尔出版社对我们美国信徒的呼吁
“关于南方工作，我心灵上有一个沉重的负担。在南方虽然已经有所作为;但工作必须比一直以来的进步更快地前进。最近在纳什维尔建立了一个出版社，要印刷适合那个园地不同阶层人民的读物。这个新机构的需要已被呈现在我们北方各教会面前，我们的弟兄们也应邀奉献了大大小小许多礼物。我们感谢主，祂动员了一些弟兄建立和维持在纳什维尔的出版社。这个机构的建立是一个前进的举动，会成就许多善工。这个机构仍将需要由礼物和奉献来维持，就像在巴特尔克里克的出版社和在奥克兰的出版社在刚成立时需要得到维持一样。”{PH127 5.1}
“这些新成立的机构需要得到我们的人的帮助。那些生活在真理早已确立的地方的人应该记住在纳什维尔将要进行的准备工作的需要。这个地方之所以被选为中心，是因为它里面和附近都有大型的教育机构。在这些机构中，有些人为南方人民做着高尚的工作。他们必须有机会听到预备一班人在主的日子站立得住的信息。{PH127 5.2}
“从有至高权威的那一位有话临到我。我的导师问：‘在建立南方园地的工作时，你会比在更有利的地方做得少吗?——比你在密歇根州和太平洋沿岸做得少吗?’我回答说：‘主啊，不会。’于是主有话说：‘在南方园地建立工作的事上，你没有时间可以浪费。许多人心里都在说：“我的主人必来得迟”’(太24:48)。{PH127 6.1}
我奉主的名号召弟兄们要有所作为，加强出版工作，帮助建立南方其它部门的工作，并且现在就做。不久就会太晚，不能做任何事了。不久我们作工的机会就会永远过去了。上帝的灾殃已经开始倾倒在地上了。只有一点点时候让我们作工了，然后天上就会有声音说：‘都成了’(启21:6)!‘不义的，叫他仍旧不义;污秽的，叫他仍旧污秽;为义的，叫他仍旧为义;圣洁的，叫他仍旧圣洁’(启22:11)。{PH127 6.2}
“弟兄姐妹们，现在就是我们赶紧有所作为的时候。你们现在愿意奉献钱财推进南方的工作吗?你们若是有用不着的房产和地产，愿意将之变卖，将所得的钱投资在已在南方园地开始的更加稳固建立的各方面工作上吗?”(摘自《呼吁我们在美国的各教会》) {PH127 6.3}
为什么选择纳什维尔
“许多人问了这个问题：J.E.怀特弟兄为什么选择纳什维尔作为工作的一个中心呢?我的回答是，因为主本着祂的智慧指示他们到这个地方。祂的旨意是要亮光从在纳什维尔里面或附近为祂建立的纪念物照耀出来。{PH127 7.1}
“在南方没有什么地方比纳什维尔更适合推进出版社的工作。它是做已经在那里开始的工作的最佳地点。{PH127 7.2}
“在纳什维尔不像在南方许多其它城市一样存在着对扶持受压迫的有色人种工作的苦毒反对，而支持这些扶持工作的情绪对我们信徒的工作来说会是一种安全保障。{PH127 7.3}
“在纳什维尔有为有色人种建的大型教育机构。在这些机构里，已经做了而且正在做着非常卓越的工作。要使这些院校的师生有特权听到现代真理的信息。因此上帝才指示，我们的各机构应该建在纳什维尔。{PH127 7.4}
“还要将真理带到那些奉献自己的钱财和影响力使有色人种受益的人面前，以便消除他们对圣经的安息日的偏见。他们采取了高尚的立场，扶持黑人。要让他们看见我们工作的表现，学到实际的教训。我们要尽量清除他们对我们工作所抱的偏见。如果我们的努力符合上帝的旨意，他们中就会有许多人悔改归正。主以某种方式行事，让光照在那些寻求亮光之人的路上。”{PH127 7.5}
“主有一项大工要在美国南方各州做成，那是祂葡萄园最被忽视和罪孽最深重的部分。出版工作在纳什维尔开始是符合上帝旨意的。在祂的天意安排中，祂已把一群工人集合到这个地方，他们要在出版社中尽各自的本分，作基督教的代表。这个机构会给我们在南方的工作增光添色。它会有助于坚固许多人对于圣经真理的信心。”(摘自“纳什维尔作为一个中心”，写于1902年5月20日){PH127 8.1}
PH127 - Appeal To Our People in America in Behalf of the Nashville Publishing House
“There is a heavy burden on my soul in regard to the Southern work. Something has already been done in the South; but the work must advance much more rapidly than it has been advancing. A publishing house has recently been established in Nashville to print reading matter suitable for the different classes of people in that field. The needs of this new institution have been presented before our Northern churches, and in response to the call of our brethren many gifts, large and small, have been made. We thank the Lord that he has aroused some of the brethren to establish and sustain the Publishing House in Nashville. The establishment of this institution is an advanced movement, and will accomplish much good. This institution will still need to be sustained by gifts and offerings, just as the publishing house in Battle Creek and the publishing house in Oakland were sustained when they were first established.”?{PH127 5.1}[1]
“These newly established interests should receive help from our people. Those living in places where the truth has been long established should remember the needs of the preparatory work to be done in Nashville. This place has been selected as a center because of the large educational institutions situated in and near it. In?these institutions there are those who are doing a noble work for the people of the South. They must be given opportunity to hear the message that is to prepare a people to stand in the day of the Lord.?{PH127 5.2}[2]
“Words have come to me from the One highest in authority. My Instructor asked, ‘In establishing the work in the Southern field will you do less than you have done in more favorable places,—less than you have done in Michigan and on the Pacific Coast?’ I responded, ‘No, Lord.’ Then the word came, ‘You have no time to lose in establishing the work in the Southern field. Many are saying in their hearts, “My Lord delayeth his coming.’’?{PH127 6.1}[3]
In the name of the Lord, I call upon my brethren to do something to strengthen the publishing interest and to help to establish other lines of work in the South, and to do it?now. Soon it will be too late to do anything. Soon our opportunities to work will have passed by forever. The plagues of God are already beginning to be poured out upon the earth. The evidences before us indicate that God’s Spirit is being withdrawn from the earth. Only a little while longer shall we be permitted to labor, and then in heaven it will be said, ‘It is done.’ ‘He that is unjust, let him be unjust?still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy?still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous?still: and he that is holy, let him be holy?still.’?{PH127 6.2}[4]
“Brethren and sisters,?now?is the time to make haste to do something. Will you?now?give of your means to advance the work in the South? If you have in your possession houses and lands that you do not need, will you sell them, and invest the means thus obtained in more firmly establishing?the various lines of work that have been begun in the Southern field?”—Extracts from the Appeal to the Churches in America.?{PH127 6.3}[5]
【Why Nashville was Selected】
“Many have asked the question, Why did J. E. White and his associates select Nashville as a center for work? I answer, Because the Lord in his wisdom directed them to this place. It is his purpose that light shall shine forth from the memorials established for him in and near Nashville.?{PH127 7.1}[6]
“There is no place in the South better suited than Nashville for the carrying forward of the publishing work. It is the best place in which to do the work that has been started there.?{PH127 7.2}[7]
“There is not in Nashville the bitter opposition to the work for the uplifting of the downtrodden colored race that exists in many other cities of the South. Much work is being done there to uplift the colored people; and the sentiment in favor of these efforts will be a security to our people in their work.?{PH127 7.3}[8]
“There are in Nashville large educational institutions for the colored people, in which much excellent work has been done, and is being done for them. The teachers and students in these institutions are to hear the message of present truth. It is for this reason that God has directed that different institutions be established in Nashville.?{PH127 7.4}[9]
“The truth is also to be brought before those who have given of their means and influence for the benefit of the colored race, that their prejudice against the Bible Sabbath may be removed. They have taken a noble stand for the?uplifting of this people. They are to see a representation of our work that will be to them an object lesson. We are to do all we possibly can to remove the prejudice that exists in their minds against our work. If the efforts we put forth are in accordance with the will of God, many among them will be convicted and converted. The Lord works in a way that causes light to shine on the pathway of those who are seeking for light.?{PH127 7.5}[10]
“The Lord has a great work to be done in the Southern States of America,—the most neglected and the most sinful part of his vineyard. It was in accordance with God’s purpose that the publishing work was started in Nashville. In his providence he has brought together in this place a company of workers who are to act their respective parts in the Publishing House, standing as representatives of Christianity. This institution is to give character to our work in the South. It will be instrumental in establishing the faith of many in Bible truth.”—From “Nashville as a Center,” written May 20, 1902.?{PH127 8.1}[11]
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