“我会引导你”
“起来建造”
华盛顿的工作
田纳西州纳什维尔，1904年6月4日
在为我们在华盛顿的疗养院和我们的基督教工人培训学校选择一个地点时，有许多事情需要考虑。我们知道，每一件事都必须与所赐的亮光一致;我们赞美主引导我们去了塔科马帕克。{PH054 2.1}
我们完全相信在购买这块地时主行在我们前面，我们要竭尽所能地执行祂的旨意，在这个地方建立祂的工作。我们将需要具有最佳才干的年轻人在华盛顿工作。我们将需要那些不会给我们所宣扬的宝贵真理带来阴影的工人。我们将需要资金来建立必要的建筑物，以推进我们的工作。{PH054 2.2}
我们知道我们是在主愿意让我们在的地方，我们非常希望按照祂的旨意立刻把工作建立起来。必须在华盛顿传扬信息，必须从那个地方前往南方各城。{PH054 2.3}
南方的其它城市
上帝自己制定了推进祂工作的计划，祂为祂的百姓提供了多余的资金，以便当祂要求帮助的时候他们可以响应，说：“主啊，祢的钱——不是我的钱——又赚了钱。”{PH054 3.1}
主号召祂在美国每一个州的子民都来帮助祂建立祂在华盛顿的工作。那些手头有这项工作的人应该表现出对它的兴趣。我们的人应当记住，就目前而言，华盛顿的工作应是我们首要的兴趣。{PH054 3.2}
我们首要的兴趣
有许多工作要在不同的地方进行;但我们现在首要的兴趣是在我们国家首都的工作。{PH054 3.3}
我们现在要把注意力集中在需要在华盛顿完成的工作上。我们为使这项工作成功而发出的请求应当天天升到天堂，以便工作迅速前进。万军之耶和华发出了特别指示，在巴特尔克里克的出版工作应该转移到华盛顿。指示如此明确，我们可以看到不能拖延。自从我们顺从这命令前进以来，我们已有证据表明，主已经为在华盛顿建立重要权利的每一步铺平了道路。到目前为止，祂都帮助了我们，所用的方式没有给任何人留下任何怀疑或质疑的余地。{PH054 3.4}
要让华盛顿的工作向前推进。每一个人都应当在舍己和自我牺牲上尽自己的本分。我们的人不要等待更多的呼吁，而要抓住工作的机会，把似乎不可能的事变为可能。我们每一个人要扪心自问：上帝有没有把推展祂圣工的金钱委托给我?祂岂没有吩咐祂在华盛顿的仆人们起来建造吗?{PH054 4.1}
起来建造
在这个非常重要的时刻，我岂可扣留上帝要我投资为祂建立纪念物的资金呢?{PH054 4.2}
我们对上帝要诚实。我们所享受的一切福惠都是祂所赐的。祂既然把财力委托给我们，用来协助祂的圣工，我们难道要扣留吗?我们难道要说：主啊!不成，我的孩子会不高兴的，于是就大胆违背上帝，把祂所赐的才干埋藏于地下吗?{PH054 4.3}
不要再耽搁了
上帝的圣工需要你的帮助。我们要求你作为上帝的管家使用祂的钱财，提供各样设施，使许多人有机会明白什么是真理。{PH054 5.1}
你可能会受到试探，要你把钱投在地产上。你的朋友们也许会劝你这么做。但是难道没有更好的投资方式吗?你不是用重价买来的吗?交托你的金钱难道不是要为祂而进行交易吗?{PH054 5.2}
使用你的钱财
难道你不明白祂要你用你的钱来帮助建造聚会的场所，帮助建立疗养院，使病人获得肉体和精神上的治疗，帮助开办学校，使青年人受到服务的训练，以便将工人派到世界各地吗?{PH054 5.3}
如果他们能忠心地把借给他们的财物归还祂的库房，祂的工作就会取得迅速进展。更多的生灵就会接受真理。基督复临的日子就会加快。{PH054 5.4}
坚固建造者的手
上帝必在祂忠心的子民面前预备道路，必大大赐福给他们。基督的义必行在他们前面，上帝的荣耀必作他们的后盾。天庭必有喜乐，工人们的心中必充满喜乐，纯净圣洁的喜乐。为了拯救将亡的人，他们愿意花费和被花费。他们的心充满感激和感恩。上帝之爱的意识净化和提升他们的经验，丰富和加强了他们。天国的恩典在得人归于基督时取得的胜利上显明出来了。{PH054 6.1}
上帝在这世界上的工作应当这样推进。在今生此世的教会应当以舍己和自我牺牲侍奉主，应当赢得最宝贵的胜利。{PH054 6.2}
上帝对祂在华盛顿的工人说：“起来建造;”祂对祂在各区会的百姓说：“要加强建造者的手。”华盛顿的工作应当直线前进，没有拖延或阻碍。不要让这工作因缺乏资金而受阻碍。在华盛顿的工人要以最坚定的勇气前进，就像上帝的子民将为他们提供资金一样快。每一个地方的每一个教会都应当愉快乐意地尽自己的本分。{PH054 6.3}
我知道上帝的子民希望高尚地尽自己的本分，推进祂在世上的工作。上帝每天都给予我们恩惠，我们应当把表明我们与我们国家的首都现在所做的工作和谐一致视为一种特权。我们没有时间可以浪费。上帝每天给予我们的恩惠直接而有力地呼吁我们回应上帝的善良和爱，把我们所有的一切都放在祭坛上。我们必须成为与上帝同工的人。祂号召我们从事祂的工作，把祂所赐给我们的还给祂一部分。祂已使我们成为祂的援助之手。我们舍己的善行，我们乐意的奉献，应当证明真理一直在我们心中发挥作用。{PH054 7.1}
我们应当切断每一要求或大或小开支的自私的放纵。上帝的工作现在应当在华盛顿得到建立。需要资金建立一所疗养院。建筑物应当朴实而不昂贵。{PH054 8.1}
朴实而不昂贵
我们不会因为不必要的炫耀而浪费上帝的钱。看看基督的生活。祂从祂的荣耀屈尊到贫穷的耻辱。祂是天上的至尊，可是祂却宣布：“狐狸有洞，天空的飞鸟有窝，只是人子没有枕头的地方”(路9:58)。{PH054 8.2}
上帝需要祂所借给你们的钱财。祂需要你们能省出的钱。现在谁也不要手懒。请向我们提供帮助，以便我们能够继续长期被忽视了的工作。上帝已说过：“要起来建造，”我们必须听从祂的话。
怀爱伦{PH054 8.3}
PH054 - I Will Guide Thee
《“Arise and Build”》
【The Work in Washington】
(Nashville, Tenn.,June 4, 1904.)
There were many things to be considered in choosing a location for our Sanitarium in Washington, and for our training school for Christian workers. We knew that everything must be in accordance with the light given; and we praise the Lord for guiding us to Takoma Park.?{PH054 2.1}[1]
We fully believe that the Lord has gone before us in the purchase of land, and we shall do all in our power to carry out His will in the establishment of His work in this place. We shall need young people of the very best talent in our work in Washington. We shall need workers who will bring no cloud upon the precious truth we are proclaiming. And we shall need means to erect the buildings that will be necessary for the carrying forward of our work.?{PH054 2.2}[2]
We know that we are where the Lord would have us, and we greatly desire that the work shall be established at once, and?in accordance with His will. The message must be proclaimed in Washington, and must go forth from that place to the?{PH054 2.3}[3]
【Other Cities of the South】
God Himself originated the plan for the advancement of His work, and He has provided His people with a surplus of means, that when He calls for help they may respond, saying, “Lord, Thy pound—not my pound—hath gained other pounds.”?{PH054 3.1}[4]
The Lord calls upon His people in every State in America to come up to his help in the establishment of his work in Washington. Those who have this work in hand are to show no lack of interest in it. And our people are to remember that for the present the work in Washington is to be?{PH054 3.2}[5]
【Our First Interest】
There are many kinds of work to be carried forward in different places; but our first interest just now is our work at the Capital of our Nation.?{PH054 3.3}[6]
We are to center our minds for the present on the work that needs to be done at Washington. Daily our petitions are to ascend to Heaven for the success of this work, that it may move forward rapidly. The Lord of hosts gave special direction?that the publishing work done in Battle Creek should be transferred to Washington. The directions were so plain that we could see that there must be no delay. And since we have moved forward in obedience to this word, we have had evidence that the Lord has prepared the way at every step for the establishment of important interests at Washington. Thus far He has helped us in a way that leaves no room for any one to doubt or question.?{PH054 3.4}[7]
Let the work in Washington move forward. Let every one act his part in self-denial and self-sacrifice. Our people are not to wait for more appeals, but are to lay right hold of the work, making those things which appear impossibilities, possibilities. Let each one ask himself, Has not the Lord entrusted me with means for the advancement of His cause? Has he not bidden his servants in Washington?{PH054 4.1}[8]
【Arise and Build?】
Shall I, at this time of great importance, withhold my means, which God asks me to invest in raising up memorials for Him??{PH054 4.2}[9]
Let us be honest with the Lord. All the blessings that we enjoy come from Him; and if He has entrusted us with the talent of means that we may help to do His work, shall we hold back? Shall we?say, No, Lord; my children would not be pleased, and therefore I shall venture to disobey God, burying His talent in the earth??{PH054 4.3}[10]
【There Should be No Delay】
The cause of God demands your assistance. We ask you, as the Lord’s stewards, to put His means into circulation, to provide facilities by which many will have the opportunity of learning what is truth.?{PH054 5.1}[11]
The temptation may come to you to invest your money in land. Perhaps your friends will advise you to do this. But is there not a better way of investing your means? Have you not been bought with a price? Has not your money been entrusted to you to be traded upon for Him? Can you not see that He wants you to?{PH054 5.2}[12]
【Use Your Means】
in helping to build meeting-houses, in helping to establish sanitariums, where the sick shall receive physical and spiritual healing, and in helping to start schools, in which the youth shall be trained for service, that workers may be sent to all parts of the world??{PH054 5.3}[13]
If they will be faithful in bringing to His treasury the means lent them, His?work will make rapid advancement. Many souls will be won to the truth, and the day of Christ’s coming will be hastened.?{PH054 5.4}[14]
【Strengthen the Hands of the Builders】
God will prepare the way before His faithful people, and will greatly bless them. The righteousness of Christ will go before them, and the glory of God will be their reward. There will be joy in the heavenly courts, and joy, pure, holy joy, will fill the hearts of the workers. To save perishing souls, they are willing to spend and be spent. Their hearts are filled with gratitude and thanksgiving. The consciousness of God’s love purifies and ennobles their experience, enriching and strengthening them. The grace of heaven is revealed in the conquests achieved in winning souls to Christ.?{PH054 6.1}[15]
So God’s work in this world is to be carried forward. The church here below is to serve the Lord with self-denial and self-sacrifice, and the most glorious triumphs are to be won.?{PH054 6.2}[16]
God’s word to His workers in Washington is, “Arise and build;” and His word to His people in all the conferences?is, “Strengthen the hands of the builders.” The work in Washington is to advance in straight lines, without delay or hindrance. Let it not be kept back for lack of means. The workers in Washington will advance with steadfast courage just as fast as the Lord’s people will furnish them with means. Let every church in every place act its part cheerfully and willingly.?{PH054 6.3}[17]
I know that the people of God desire to act their part nobly in advancing His work in the world. God extends His favor to us daily, and we are to regard it as a privilege to show that we are in harmony with the work now being done at the Capital of our Nation. We have no time to lose. The bounty that God daily bestows upon us makes a direct and forcible appeal to us to respond to the goodness and love of God by placing all that we have and are upon the altar of sacrifice. We must be co-laborers with God. He calls upon us to engage in His work, to return to Him a part of that which He has bestowed upon us. He has made us his helping hand. Our self-denying benevolence, our willing offerings, are to give evidence that the truth has been doing its work upon our hearts.?{PH054 7.1}[18]
Let us cut away every selfish indulgence that calls for an outlay of means, large or small. The work of God is now to be established in Washington. Means will be needed to erect a Sanitarium. The building is to be?{PH054 8.1}[19]
【Plain and Inexpensive】
We would not waste the Lord’s money by unnecessary display. Look at the life of Christ. He stooped from His glory to the humiliation of poverty. He was the Majesty of heaven, yet he declared, “Foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests, but the son of man hath not where to lay his head.”?{PH054 8.2}[20]
God has need of the means that He has lent you. He needs the money that you can spare. Let no man’s hand now be slack. Please send us help, that we may carry forward the work that has for so long been neglected. God has said, “Arise and build,” and we must obey His word.?{PH054 8.3}[21]
Ellen G. White[22]
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