我们书刊文章的选择
我们安息日复临信徒的力量和效能大都有赖于我们所出版的书刊。我们的期刊不可发表未经选择的文章。不要刊登庸俗而无价值的故事。有些浪漫和虚构的文章不含会结善果的种子。我要对编辑们说：要谨慎选择面向世界的文字，要表显最大的审慎和识别力，不要让没有价值的材料登载在《评论与通讯》和《时兆》上。在我们的报刊上可以刊登已经发表的珍贵材料。{PH070 2.1}
为我们报刊供稿的一些作家需要培养和提升品味。《评论与通讯》和《时兆》的编辑不要采纳那些只想张扬自我的文章和粗制滥造的作品。这些文章的作者根本不懂与上帝进行纯洁、高尚和神圣的交流。不要让粗俗的作品在我们的刊物上占有一席之地。这些文章是要面向千万读者的，应该表现出作者心灵和身体方面的纯净、高尚和圣洁。要用笔来播撒永生的种子，就是“耶和华如此说”。{PH070 2.2}
我们报刊所发表的文章应当饱含纯净的食粮，彻底扬净糠秕。我们生活在非常严肃的时代。我们的编辑应当征集表达活泼经验的文章。传道人要意识到有责任向我们的报刊提供表达人生经验的短文。在孤独的地方，在国外和海岛上工作的人们将以此为食粮，了解与他们分隔之友人的信息。这些经验对于读者们来说就如一席爱宴，因为作家们所吃的，是从天而来的粮食。{PH070 3.1}
我们不需要浪漫的小说，因为在日常生活中，我们遇到的是真实的经历，如果将之用简短的文字，朴实的语言表述出来，就会给许多人带来帮助。希望我们的工人作这方面的努力。我们需要真理，需要稳固的真理，由坚定献身的成人和青年表述出来。你们这些爱上帝，心中储藏着宝贵的经验，体验永生现实的人，应当点燃上帝子民心中爱与光的火焰，帮助他们解决人生的问题。{PH070 3.2}
我们的言论和文字都应受圣灵的控制。如果我们刊物的作家做不到这一点，他们就最好搁笔，去从事别的工作。上帝呼召我们到山上与祂交谈。当我们藉着信心仰望那看不见的主时，我们的言语就不会是庸俗的了。我们报刊上的篇幅非常宝贵，凡不是最好的文章就不要刊登。要登载涉及永恒利益的文字。不要把食槽放得太高，让一般人够不着。我们的文章要体现基督化的简朴，把秕子和干草分离出来，因为这是没有价值的。上帝需要献身的笔。我们报刊所发表的文章应该充满实际而高尚的思想，帮助，教育和加强读者。愿上帝帮助我们的编辑作出智慧的选择。{PH070 3.3}
关于书刊出版和销售的勉言
有人写信问我关于图书出版的问题：把那些与我们教会所视为要道的真理无关的文字发表出来，会不会有危险。我蒙指示，那些编辑成书的普通故事，与我们的福利并无关系。世界上充斥着这样的文字。这种书的畅销决不能证明它们是应该被发行的。对于故事的爱好已经导致成千上万种无价值书籍的出版。这些书就像草木禾秸。这些书的作者所受的教育，使他们心中充满浪漫的思想。凡他们的想象力所能及的，都写进他们的书里，作为精神食粮供应世界。但这种粮食并没有食用价值。“糠秕怎能与麦子比较呢”（耶23:28）？我们不需要小说，因为我们所面对的是严酷的生活现实。{PH070 4.1}
我们的出版社不要宣传和销售无价值的爱情小说。现在销售的许多书籍不符合上帝的旨意。有一段时间也许可以销售这种书，但现在我们已非常接近地球历史的结局，所以不宜向人提供不包含我们信徒所需要之信息的书籍。要吸引人关注涉及实际信心和虔诚的书。要洁净营地，使之成圣。我们有充足的书可以给世界带来光明。{PH070 5.1}
我不明白为什么我们的书刊中会有这么多时代所不需要的书籍广告。许多这样的书能在所有的书店里买到。为什么不使人关注与永生之道有关的题目？为什么不从我们在世界各地的工人那里获得简明、真实、有效的见证呢？上帝要我们发表这样的读物。我们没有时间可以浪费在庸俗的事情和纯娱乐的书籍上。{PH070 5.2}
我们的刊物所发表的材料应对读者有帮助。这些刊物的版面应当用来发表生动真挚的救灵材料。我们的弟兄愿意考虑这个问题，将草木禾秸从我们的刊物中清除出去吗？{PH070 5.3}
传道人和作家的任务是要预备一班人迎见上帝。真理的旗帜已被降至尘埃之中。现在要空前重视家庭的宗教和家庭的圣洁。圣灵作为净化者、责备者和安慰者，要进行当今的重要工作。安息日复临信徒要像以诺那样行在上帝面前，用他们纯洁的言语，充满同情、温柔和仁爱的话语来表现他们的真诚。但这还不够。有时还需要批评和严厉责备的话语。要把离开正道的人召回，单单温柔的话语是不够的。在每一个人的心中，必须发生道德的更新，否则人就会在他们的罪中灭亡。我们如果把《罗马书》第十二章的教训运用到实际生活中去，就会成为真正的信徒。信仰虚假的人会藉着每天品格的表现，证明他们不是真正的基督徒。披戴基督的人会通过心意的更新而得到改变。他们用自己的经验证明什么是“上帝的善良、纯全、可喜悦的旨意”（罗12:2）。 怀爱伦{PH070 5.4}
PH070 - The Selection of Articles for our Papers
【The Selection of Articles for our Papers】
Our power and efficiency as Seventh-day Adventists is largely dependent on the literature which comes from our presses. An indiscriminate class of articles should not be published in our periodicals. Cheap, worthless stories should find no place in them. There are articles of romance and fiction which contain no seeds that will bear good fruit. I would say to our editors, Be careful in the selection of the matter which is to go to the world. Show the greatest caution and discernment. Be careful that the?Review and Herald,?and the?Signs of the Times?are kept free from worthless matter. Precious matter from what has already been printed can be found for our papers.?{PH070 2.1}[1]
The tastes of some who write for our papers need to be educated and refined. The editors of the?Review and Herald?and the?Signs of the Times?should refuse to fill the columns of these papers with articles manufactured by minds which reveal themselves in their productions. Articles in any way coarse should be refused as matter unworthy of notice,—the production of those who know nothing of pure, elevated, and sanctified communion with God. Let no rough, uncouth presentation find place in our papers. The articles which go to thousands of readers should show purity, elevation, and sanctification of soul, body, and spirit on the part of the writer. The pen should be used as a means of sowing seed unto eternal life. This is a “Thus saith the Lord.”?{PH070 2.2}[2]
The articles published in our papers should contain pure provender, thoroughly winnowed from chaff. We are living in a most solemn time. Let our editors call for articles giving living experience. Let the ministers regard it as a part of their duty to send short articles of experience to our papers. It will be food for those who are laboring in isolated places, in foreign countries, and the islands of the sea, to hear in this way from the friends with whom they have been associated. These experiences may be to the readers as a love-feast, because the writers have been eating the bread which came down from heaven.?{PH070 3.1}[3]
We do not need romance, for in the daily life we meet with real experiences, which, if told in short articles and in simple words, would be helpful to many. Let our workers try this. We want truth, solid truth, from solid, consecrated men, women, and youth. You who love God, whose minds are stored with precious bits of experience, and with the living realities of eternal life, kindle the flame of love and light in the hearts of God’s people. Help them to deal with the problems of life.?{PH070 3.2}[4]
Speech and pen are to be under the control of the Holy Spirit. If this is not the case with the writers for our periodicals, they might better lay aside the pen, and take up work of another order. God calls us into the mount to talk with Him, and when by faith we behold Him who is invisible, our words will not be cheap and common. The space in our papers is too precious to be filled up with articles that are not the best. Crowd in subjects weighty with eternal interests. Put not the crib?too high for the minds of the common people. Let the articles be written with Christlike simplicity, and let them be free from all chaff and stubble, for this will be consumed as worthless. God calls for consecrated pens. The articles published in our papers should be full of practical, elevating, ennobling thoughts, which will help and teach and strengthen the mind that reads them. God help our editors to choose wisely.?{PH070 3.3}[5]
【Words of Counsel in Regard to the Publication and Sale of Books】
Letters have come to me with inquiries regarding the publication of books, asking whether there was not danger of placing before the people many things which do not relate to the truths so important to us as a people. I have been instructed that the common stories put into book form are not essential to our well-being. The world is flooded with this class of literature, and the fact that such books find a ready sale is by no means evidence that they are the books which should be circulated. The passion for stories is bringing into existence many thousands of worthless books, which are as hay, wood, and stubble. These books are written by those whose minds have been educated to run in a channel of romance. Everything that the imaginative mind can think of is woven into the book, and presented to the world as mental food. But very often it has no food value. “What is the chaff to the wheat?” We do not need novels; for we are dealing with the stern realities of life.?{PH070 4.1}[6]
Cheap, worthless romances are not to be advertised or sold by our publishing houses. Many of the books now offered for sale are not after God’s order. There might have been a time when the sale of these books would have been more seemly, but we are now altogether too near the close of this earth’s history to keep before the attention of the people a class of books which do not contain the message which our people need. Draw their attention to books treating on practical faith and godliness. Cleanse and sanctify the camp. There is an abundance of books which will give light to the world.?{PH070 5.1}[7]
I can not understand why our papers should contain so many notices of books unessential for this time. Plenty of such books can be obtained in all bookstores. Why not draw the minds of the people to subjects relating to the words of eternal life? Why not make an effort to obtain communications, simple, real, and true, from our workers in all parts of the world? God calls for this class of reading. We have no time to devote to commonplace things, no time to waste on books which only devote to commonplace things, no time to waste on books which only amuse.?{PH070 5.2}[8]
The matter published in our papers should be such as will help those who read it. The space in these papers should be devoted to the publication of living, earnest matter, which concerns the salvation of the soul. Will our brethren consider this matter, and keep hay, wood, and stubble out of our papers??{PH070 5.3}[9]
The work of ministers and writers is to prepare a people to meet God. The standard of truth has?been lowered in the dust. Family religion, family holiness, is now to be honored as never before. As a sanctifier, reprover, and comforter, the Holy Spirit is to do the work essential for this time. If ever a people needed to walk before God as did Enoch, Seventh-day Adventists need to now, showing their sincerity by pure words, clean words, words full of sympathy, tenderness and love. But it is not to end here. There are times when words of reproof and sharp rebuke are called for. Those who are out of the right way need more than soft words to bring them back. Moral renovation must take place in every heart, else souls will perish in their sins. If we brought the instruction contained in the twelfth chapter of Romans into the practical life, we would be true believers. Those whose faith is spurious will show by their daily exhibition of character that they are not true Christians. Those who have put on Christ are transformed by the renewing of their minds. By their own experience they prove what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God.?{PH070 5.4}[10]
Ellen G. White.[11]
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