健康、慈善和医疗布道工作
1.健康机构与圣工的关系
我的心很困惑，心理负担很重，因为关于我们机构的兴旺，我看出许多事，是弟兄们没有看见的。圣工的医疗分支是目前摆在我们面前的最困难的问题。我收到一些区会会长的信和一些有财产之人的信，也会见了这些弟兄们，谈到在各州建立健康机构的问题。我不能鼓励没有仔细考虑上帝圣工各部门的需要就这么做。我使他们思想我们在已建立的机构中不得不对付的困难和遇到的挫折，因为非常缺乏虔诚的、有原则的、坚定正直的、心理很平衡的或具有无私兴趣的人——完全献身归于上帝的人。具有这种品格的人才是惟一应该在我们的各机构中有控制性力量的人。{PH066 3.1}
我蒙指示看到建立和管理另外的健康机构的事应该由总会监管。只有在仔细虔诚的商量之后，决定这对推进圣经卫生和节制的工作、对受苦人类的益处来说是必不可少的，才应该建立这种机构。{PH066 3.2}
建立一个健康机构是太重要的事，不可交给几个有兴趣的人独立管理。如果这个事业在总会的控制之下，就为深思熟虑的建议开了路，仔细考虑这事及其与大整体的关系;若是开始建立机构，就会有联合的力量使它有影响力和地位。这会大大助有于它的成功。在这种管理之下，能征募一班原本得不到的工人，如此一来，在一般人手中会失败的事业就会兴旺。此外，必须有一个权威保护这样的机构，以便没有资格的人不至于被允许因其医师专业方面自私的野心而抓住责任。{PH066 4.1}
基督徒医师不能对自己的个性保持最高的尊重，不能在行医时不参考其他医生的意见，不能在对上帝的责任或与整个事业的关系方面漠不关心或粗心大意。他不应该根据自己独立的判断着手重要的事业，例如建立一所疗养院，辩解说自己愿意事奉上帝的圣工，却在工作上服侍自己。{PH066 4.2}
我们各机构中聘请的医师应该对荣誉和忠诚有一种神圣的尊重。他们若是没能正直无私地行事为人，若是没有尊重应该在工作的每一个部门中支配跟从基督之人的原则，就要让教会对他们的情况采取行动。要让圣经的准则得到遵行，正如主所教导的那样。医师无论大小，若是拒绝顺从教会纪律，在照着基督的指示耐心地为他们操劳适当的时间之后，就应该使他们与教会分离，当作是不配与教会相交的。医生居于有影响职位的事实，正是他如果有错误行为就应该由明智的人予以仔细调查的理由。要让我们的健康机构清除每一邪恶，以便上帝的福气停留在祂的这些机构上。{PH066 4.3}
写于1890年。
[自上篇文章撰写以来，健康、慈善和医疗布道工作一直是由国际医疗布道与慈善协会发起组织的，该协会对宣教工作进行监督。]{PH066 5.1}
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上帝要求祂在医学界的跟随者要在他们和谐一致的工作中显明基督的灵，正如福音传道人要在他们救灵的工作中和谐一致一样。这种各人都行自己眼中看为善的独立行为乃是依照撒但的命令，而不是依从基督。一个人把自己安置在某个地方并开始行事;另一个人在另一个地方做同样的事，彼此就像两股草绳一样没有合一。我蒙指示看到这种事对安息日复临信徒来说是一种耻辱，对上帝的圣工也是一种羞辱。{PH066 5.2}
有必要让男男女女出去以基督教医生的身份在不同的地方作布道士，但他们应当在区会的指导之下。{PH066 5.3}
1890年。
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基督复临安息日会的每一个机构在世界上都应像约瑟在埃及、但以理和他的朋友在巴比伦一样。{PH066 6.1}
1895年。
PH066 - Health, Philanthropic, and Medical Missionary Work
【Relation of Health Institutions to the Cause】
My mind is much perplexed, my soul is burdened, because I discern many things which my brethren do not see in regard to the prosperity of our institutions. The medical branch of the work is the most difficult matter now before us. I have received letters from presidents of conferences and from men of property, and have also had interviews with these brethren, in reference to establishing health institutions in different States. I could not encourage this without a careful consideration of the wants of the cause of God in every branch. I have brought before their minds the difficulties that we have had to meet in the institutions already established, the discouragement which came in because there was such a lack of men of piety, of principle, of unswerving integrity, of well-balanced minds, of unselfish interests—men who were wholly consecrated to God. Men of this character are the only ones who should have a controlling power in our institutions.?{PH066 3.1}
I have been shown that the matter of establishing and conducting additional health institutions should come under the supervision of the General Conference. Such institutions should be established only when, after careful and prayerful consultation, it is decided to be essential for the advancement of the work of Bible hygiene and temperance, for the good of suffering humanity.?{PH066 3.2}
The establishment of a health institution is too important a matter to be left to the independent management of a few interested individuals. If the enterprise is under the control of the General Conference, the way is open for deliberate counsel and a careful consideration of the matter and its relation to the great whole; and if it is undertaken, there will be a united force to give it influence and standing. This will contribute largely to its success. Under such management, a class of workers could be enlisted that otherwise could not be secured, and thus the enterprise would prosper when it would prove a failure in ordinary hands. And furthermore, there must be an authority to guard such institutions, so that persons who are not qualified shall not be allowed to grasp responsibilities through selfish ambition in their professional line as physicians.?{PH066 4.1}
The Christian physician can not maintain a supreme regard for his own individuality, acting in his profession without reference to his fellow physicians, and indifferent or careless in regard to his accountability to God, or the relation he sustains to the cause at large. He should not enter upon important enterprises, such as the establishment of a sanitarium, upon his own independent judgment, pleading his desire to serve the cause of God, but in his works serving himself.?{PH066 4.2}
The physicians employed in our institutions should have a sacred regard for honor and loyalty. If they fail to walk uprightly and unselfishly; if they do not honor the principles that should control the followers of Christ in any and every branch of the work, then let the church take action in their case. Let the Bible rule be?followed, just as the Master has taught. Be the physician great or small, if he refuses to submit to church discipline, after suitable time has been given for patient labor according to Christ’s direction, he should be separated from the church as unworthy of its fellowship. The fact that the physician occupies a position of influence is the very reason why, in the case of any unchristian practise on his part, there should be careful investigation by judicious persons. Let our health institutions be purged of every evil, that the blessing of God may rest upon these his instrumentalities.---Written in 1890.?{PH066 4.3}?
{PH066 5.1}
It is as much required of God that his followers who are in the medical profession shall reveal the spirit of Christ in harmonizing their work as that the ministers of the gospel shall harmonize in their labors for the salvation of souls. This independence to do every man as seemeth good in his own eyes is after the satanic order, but not after Christ. One sets himself up in a certain place and begins to practise; another does the same in another place; and there is no more unity one with the other than between the strands of ropes of straw. This thing I have been shown is a disgrace to Seventh-day Adventists and a dishonor to the cause of God.?{PH066 5.2}
There is need that men and women shall go forth in various places and act as missionaries in the?capacity of Christian physicians, but they should be under the direction of the Conference.?---1890.{PH066 5.3}
Every institution that bears the Seventh-day Adventist name is to be to the world as Joseph was in Egypt and as Daniel and his fellows were in Babylon.?---1895.{PH066 6.1}
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