关于麦迪逊学校的呼吁
我了解萨瑟兰弟兄和马根弟兄在田纳西州麦迪逊所做之工的必要性;因为主已将这事清楚地呈现在我面前。{PH119 1.1}
曾赐下的亮光是，在纳什维尔里面和周围应当做成一番伟大的工作。这些弟兄正在寻找一个可以建立学校的地方时，他们找到了学校现在所在的地方。价格适中，优点很多。我蒙指示看见我们应该为学校买下这块地产，就劝他们不要再找了。{PH119 1.2}
工作的性质
麦迪逊的学校不仅教导圣经的知识，还提供实际的训练，使学生能到蒙召工作的园地里自养传道。在麦迪逊的工作中，萨瑟兰弟兄和马根弟兄以及他们的同事高尚地忍受了考验。他们教导学生种植自己的庄稼，建造自己的房子，明智地照顾牛和家禽。学生们一直在学习成为自立的人，和一种训练，他们不可能得到比这更重要的训练了。他们就这样得到了在传道园地从事有用劳动的宝贵教育。{PH119 1.3}
此外还知道如何对待病人和照料受伤的人。这样的医疗布道训练是建立任何学校所应树立的最伟大目标之一。{PH119 1.4}
需要一所疗养院
有许多人患着疾病和伤痛，他们在痛苦得到消除时，就会准备好听从真理。我们的救主是一位大能的医治者。奉祂的名可以有许多奇迹在南方和其它园地藉着训练有素的医疗布道士行出来。{PH119 1.5}
很有必要建一所疗养院与麦迪逊学校相连。学校的教育工作可以和疗养院携手并进。在学校给予的教导会使病人受益，而疗养院给病人的指教也会使学校蒙福。{PH119 2.1}
全面教育的价值
在麦迪逊学校给予的那等教育会被那些开始在外国园地从事宣教工作的人认为是一种具有重大价值的财产。若是有更多在其它学校的人在接受类似的训练，我们这班人就会成为一台戏，给世人和天使观看。信息就会迅速传到各国，如今处在黑暗中的人就会被带到光明中。{PH119 2.2}
在麦迪逊的学校开展工作的同时，如果类似的学校也在南方园地的不同地方建立起来，上帝原会很高兴。南方有大量的土地荒芜，可以开发，像麦迪逊学校开发土地那样。上帝的子民因为逼迫要被分散在许多国家，这样的时日不久要来到。那些已受过全面教育的人，将在所在的地方具有优势。主显示出神圣的智慧，如此引导祂的子民培养一切才干和能力，从事传播真理的工作。{PH119 2.3}
呼吁克己
应当想尽一切办法在南方的不同地区建立麦迪逊这个等次的学校;那些出资并用自己的影响力帮助这项工作的人，是在帮助上帝的圣工。我蒙指示要对那些有资金可以借贷或奉献的人说：要帮助在麦迪逊的工作。你们没有时间可以浪费。撒但不久会起来造成阻碍。要让工作趁着可以前进的时候前进。{PH119 2.4}
但愿我们加强这群教育者继续他们所从事的善工，并且努力鼓励别人去从事相似的工作。于是真理的亮光就会以简单有效的方式得到传播，在短时间就会为主完成一项大工。{PH119 2.5}.
当主用属世的利益恩待祂的任何一个仆人时，是因为他们能用那些利益使他人受益。我们要学会满足于简单的食物和衣服，使我们能节省许多钱来投入福音的工作。{PH119 3.1}
我们缺乏舍己，不肯看到这时候圣工的需要并且响应那些需要，这就要求我们悔改并在上帝面前谦卑己心。一个人知道上帝的真理却抱着手把自己的工作留给别人去做，乃是一宗罪。基督的福音要求完全的奉献。我们的教会肢体现在应当起来承担他们的责任和特权。他们应当少花钱在自我放纵和不必要的装饰上。这样花费的钱是主的，是在祂的圣工中从事神圣的工作所需要的。要教育孩童去做宣教工作，并将他们的奉献带给上帝。但愿我们觉悟到我们自称从事之工的属灵性质。这不是将软弱交织进我们的经验中的时候。{PH119 3.2}
不可妨碍麦迪逊的工作
为了按照正确的方法办学，麦迪逊的工人们已经进行策划，作出牺牲。但工作被大大延误了。主引导了麦迪逊农场的选择。祂希望按照正确方针经营，使别人能向那里的工人学习，开始做同样的工作，按同样的方式来办。{PH119 3.3}
在田纳西州麦迪逊的培训学校为国内外传道教师所做的工作中，在麦迪逊出来的教师所办的小型学校中，我们看到了如何向许多地方传扬信息的例证。{PH119 3.4}
要鼓励萨瑟兰弟兄和马根弟兄去募集资金维持他们的工作。这些弟兄有特权接受主所感动提供帮助的我们任何人的礼物。他们应当拥有资金——上帝的资金——用来作工。麦迪逊过去已受伤致残，但现在它必须前进。这项工作若是受到了正确的看待，得到了所需要的帮助，我们本应该此前很久就在麦迪逊有了兴旺的工作。应当鼓励我们的人将自己的钱财奉献给这项工作，这工作正在以一种明智可信的方式预备学生前去进入受忽视的园地，去宣扬基督快来。{PH119 3.5}
现在正在建造一个不大的疗养院，和一栋更宽敞的学校建筑。这些都是正确开展教育工作所必需的。在过去，萨瑟兰弟兄和马根弟兄曾用他们的机智和能力为圣工整体的利益筹集资金。现在时候已到，这些忠心的工人应当从他们的弟兄——主的管家们——得到所需的资金，好成功地开展麦迪逊学校和麦迪逊小疗养院的工作。{PH119 4.1}
我呼吁我们已蒙主委托资财的弟兄们：你们现在愿意帮助麦迪逊的工人吗?他们在为许多事业筹集资金的事上起到了重要作用。作为主的信使，我请你们现在帮助麦迪逊的学校。这是它有需要的时候。你们所拥有的钱是主所委托的资本，应当准备妥当，响应呼召，将它用在主需要它的地方。{PH119 4.2}
麦迪逊学校的必需品要求我们立即提供帮助。弟兄们，要趁着白日作工;因为黑夜来到，就无人能作工了。{PH119 4.3}
怀爱伦
1908年5月25日
PH119 - An Appeal for the Madison School
I am acquainted with the necessities of the work being done by Brethren Magan and Sutherland and their co-laborers at Madison, Tennessee, for the Lord has presented this matter clearly before me.?{PH119 1.1}[1]
Light had been given that a great work was to be done in and around Nashville. When these brethren were looking for a location for their school, they found the farm where the school is now established. The price was moderate, and the advantages were many. I was shown that the property should be secured for the school, and advised them to look no farther.?{PH119 1.2}[2]
【The Character of the Work】
The school at Madison not only educates in a knowledge of the Scriptures, but it gives a practical training that fits the student to go forth as a self-supporting missionary to the field to which he is called. In their work at Madison, Brethren Sutherland and Magan and their associates have borne trial nobly. The students have been taught to raise their own crops, to build their own houses, and to care wisely for cattle and poultry. They have been learning to become self-supporting, and a training more important than this they could not receive. Thus they have obtained a valuable education for usefulness in missionary fields.?{PH119 1.3}[3]
To this is added the knowledge of how to treat the sick and to care for the injured. This training for medical missionary work is one of the grandest objects for which any school can be established.?{PH119 1.4}[4]
【The Need for a Sanitarium】
There are many suffering from disease and injury, who, when relieved of pain, will be prepared to listen to the truth. Our Saviour was a mighty Healer. In His name there may?be many miracles wrought in the South and in other fields, through the instrumentality of the trained medical missionary.?{PH119 1.5}[5]
It is essential that there shall be a sanitarium connected with the Madison school. The educational work at the school and the sanitarium can go forward hand in hand. The instruction given at the school will benefit the patients, and the instruction given to the sanitarium patients will be a blessing to the school.?{PH119 2.1}[6]
【The Value of an All-Round Education】
The class of education given at the Madison school is such as will be accounted a treasure of great value by those who take up missionary work in foreign fields. If many more in other schools were receiving a similar training, we as a people would be a spectacle to the world, to angels, and to men. The message would be quickly carried to every country, and souls now in darkness would be brought to the light.?{PH119 2.2}[7]
It would have been pleasing to God if, while the Madison school has been doing its work, other such schools had been established in different parts of the Southern field. There is plenty of land lying waste in the South that might have been improved as the land about the Madison school has been improved. The time is soon coming when God’s people, because of persecution, will be scattered in many countries. Those who have received an all-round education will have a great advantage wherever they are. The Lord reveals divine wisdom in thus leading His people to train all their faculties and capabilities for the work of disseminating truth.?{PH119 2.3}[8]
【A Call to Self-Denial】
Every possible means should be devised to establish schools of the Madison order in various parts of the South; and those who lend their means and their influence to help this work, are aiding the cause of God. I am instructed to say to those who have means to spare: Help the work at Madison. You have no time to lose. Satan will soon rise up to create hindrances; let the work go forward while it may.?{PH119 2.4}[9]
Let us strengthen this company of educators to continue the good work in which they are engaged, and labor to?encourage others to do a similar work. Then the light of truth will be carried in a simple and effective way, and a great work will be accomplished for the Master in a short time.?{PH119 2.5}[10]
When the Lord favors any of His servants with worldly advantages, it is that they may use those advantages for the benefit of others. We are to learn to be content with simple food and clothing, that we may save much means to invest in the work of the gospel.?{PH119 3.1}[11]
Our lack of self-denial, our refusal to see the necessities of the cause for this time, and to respond to them, call for repentance and humiliation before God. It is a sin for one who knows the truth of God to fold his hands and leave his work for another to do. The gospel of Christ calls for entire consecration. Let our church-members now arise to their responsibilities and privileges. Let them spend less on self-indulgence and needless adorning. The money thus expended is the Lord’s, and is needed to do a sacred work in His cause. Educate the children to do missionary work, and to bring their offerings to God. Let us awake to the spiritual character of the work in which we are engaged. This is no time for weakness to be woven into our experience.?{PH119 3.2}[12]
【The Work at Madison not to be Hindered】
The workers at Madison have devised and planned and sacrificed in order to carry the school there on right lines, but the work has been greatly delayed. The Lord guided in the selection of the farm at Madison, and He desires it to be managed on right lines, that others, learning from the workers there, may take up a similar work, and conduct it in a like manner.?{PH119 3.3}[13]
In the work being done at the training-school for home and foreign missionary teachers in Madison, Tennessee, and in the small schools established by the teachers who have gone forth from Madison, we have an illustration of one way in which the message should be carried in many, many places.?{PH119 3.4}[14]
Brethren Sutherland and Magan should be encouraged to solicit means for the support of their work. It is the privilege of these brethren to receive gifts from any of the people?whom the Lord impresses to help. They should have means—God’s means with which to work. The Madison enterprise has been crippled in the past, but now it must go forward. If this work had been regarded in the right light, and had been given the help it needed, we should long ere this have had a prosperous work at Madison. Our people are to be encouraged to give of their means to this work which is preparing students in a sensible and creditable way to go forth into neglected fields to proclaim the soon coming of Christ.?{PH119 3.5}[15]
Now a modest sanitarium is being erected, and a more commodious school-building. These are necessary to carry on aright the work of education. In the past, Brethren Sutherland and Magan have used their tact and ability in raising means for the good of the cause as a whole. Now the time has come when these faithful workers should receive from their brethren, the Lord’s stewards, the means that they need to carry on successfully the work of the Madison school and the little Madison sanitarium.?{PH119 4.1}[16]
I appeal to our brethren to whom the Lord has entrusted the talent of means: Will you not help the workers at Madison, who have been instrumental in raising means for many enterprises? As the Lord’s messenger, I ask you to help the Madison school now. This is its time of need. The money which you possess is the Lord’s entrusted capital. It should be held in readiness to answer the calls in places where the Lord has need of it.?{PH119 4.2}[17]
The necessities of the Madison school call for immediate help. Brethren, work while the day lasts; for the night cometh, when no man can work.?{PH119 4.3}[18]
---May 25, 1908.Ellen G. White[19]
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