1、对守望者的呼召
(1910年8月8日写于加州疗养院)
我有一道特别的信息要传达。主应成为我们的光，我们应反射祂赐予我们的光。我们的灵与魂与身子都要成圣。我们应时刻保持警醒，唯恐被我们的仇敌击败。{PH020 1.1}
看到一些过去的同工陷入撒但的骗局，转而背离真理，使我们感到非常伤心。但我们必须保持十足的勇气。如果我们信靠上帝，祂就会帮助我们。我们要从祂那里寻求智慧，不至迷惑。{PH020 1.2}
了解真理的弟兄姊妹不应过多地向传道人寻求帮助。要让这些上帝的信使拥有足够的时间为许多未受告诫的人工作。{PH020 1.3}
我要对居于负责岗位的弟兄们说，大城市的需要一直摆在你们面前。你们有一道又一道的信息论到你们的责任。而今你们要做什么以便听从主的吩咐呢?关于这些，主召唤我们说：“再者，你们晓得现今就是该趁早睡醒的时候，因为我们得救，现今比初信的时候更近了。黑夜已深，白昼将近。我们就当脱去暗昧的行为，带上光明的兵器”(罗13:11,12)。“要爱惜光阴，因为现今的世代邪恶”(弗5:16)。{PH020 1.4}
我们一旦开始对城市的大众展开积极的工作，仇敌就会竭尽全力制造混乱，企图以此瓦解破坏我们的工人队伍。一些没有彻底归正的人，会不断处于误以仇敌的建议为上帝圣灵的带领的危险之中。主既然赐予了我们亮光，我们就要行在光中。我们不应满足于肤浅的经历。我们需要审视自己的失败之处，以便在这些方面获得宝贵的胜利。{PH020 2.1}
任何形式的吹嘘都是有罪的。我们要去掉一切洋洋自得的毛病，只专注于基督的邀请。祂说：“到我这里来，效法我的品格;我心里柔和谦卑，你们当负我的轭，学我的样式，这样，你们心里就必得享安息。”自称基督徒的人，只有藉着彰显祂的温柔，表现得出如同基督那样，才能证明已重生，进入基督的国度。{PH020 2.2}
收割园地里的工人们是主的信使，他们应互相帮助。愿主帮助我们，使我们获得伟大的胜利。我们既知道我们力量的来源，就应坚定立场，仰望为我们信心创始成终的耶稣。{PH020 2.3}
撒但竭尽全力转移人们的注意力，使他们无法领会并遵从真理。他会用所能编制的一切网罗缠住他们。多年来，我一次又一次地看到他欺诈的画面。{PH020 2.4}
但他最大的努力是诱捕和欺骗那些已有长期经验的教会肢体和基督福音的传道人。撒但和他手下的军兵利用一切的聪明机智，用他们出众的知识实施欺骗，“倘若能行，连选民也就迷惑了”(太24:24)。我们会因自得而变得软弱，招惹仇敌的试探。我们的保障是由衷实行圣经的真理。我们要藉着在上帝面前自卑来诚邀祂拯救的大能。{PH020 3.1}
每一个捍卫真理的传道人都要认识到自己应在主耶稣基督的指引下工作。我们要牢记尽管堕落的天使失去了最初的地位，但他们的智慧依然胜过人类，因为他们曾是天国议会的成员。{PH020 3.2}
我深深地感受到我们的布道领袖们应忠于他们的职责，智慧而有辨别力。被拣选作亮光使者的人如果抱有错误的精神，就会阻碍救灵信息对人民的传播，灵魂便会沦丧。现在要做的是彻底归正，全心全意地献身。紧靠基督的人才会得到加强，以应对人和撒但的诡计。我们生活在危险的时代。我们的传道人专注于他们中间众所周知的严重的意见分歧，就不符合主的旨意。{PH020 3.3}
不要用鲁莽和引发偏见的方式行事。任何人都不要心血来潮，在书刊中发表使上帝的信使手发软，并使人向真理关闭心门的文字。{PH020 3.4}
基督是天上的君王，是上帝的独生子。然而 “上帝爱世人，甚至将祂的独生子赐给他们，叫一切信祂的，不至灭亡，反得永生”(约3:16)。{PH020 4.1}
基督以人性披覆神性，以便怀抱人类。跟随祂的人为了帮助需要帮助的人，难道不能乐意顺从一些还无法清楚理解的事情吗?{PH020 4.2}
要在我们的城市中作工。把我们的力量投到其他有益的事业上，放弃尚未开工的、居住着大批各民族居民的城市，这是不智之举。现在应当开始并要筹集资金推进工作。要在人口聚居的大城市再度发出大声呼喊。“新郎来了，你们出来迎接祂”(太25:6)。{PH020 4.3}
需要钱财从事在纽约，波士顿，波特兰，费城，布法罗，芝加哥，圣路易斯，新奥尔良，以及许多其他城市的工作。其中有些地区的人曾受到1842年至1844年所发信息的强烈震撼，但是在后来的岁月中，与在这次运动中本应完成的伟大工作相比，所成就的实在很少。似乎很难使我们的信徒感到对大城市中的工作负有特别的责任。{PH020 4.4}
我呼吁已经听到这信息多年的弟兄们，现在是唤醒守望者们的时候了。我已经尽力传出了主所赐给我的信息。我们各城市中的需要重重地压在我身上，有时似乎感到我要死了。愿主赐给弟兄们智慧，使他们可以知道如何按照主的旨意推进这项工作。
(签名)怀爱伦{PH020 4.5}
PH020 - A Call to the Watchmen
(Sanitarium, Cal.,August 8, 1910.)
I have a special message to bear. The Lord is to be our Light, and we are to reflect the light He gives us. We must be sanctified, soul, body, and spirit. Every moment we must be on our guard lest we be overcome by our adversaries.?{PH020 1.1}[1]
We have been made to feel very sad as we have seen some who were formerly fellow-laborers yielding to the deceptions of Satan, and turning away from the truth. But we must be of good courage. God will help us if we put our trust in Him. We must look to Him for wisdom, and not become confused.?{PH020 1.2}[2]
The brethren and sisters who know the truth are not to draw largely upon the ministers for help. Let the messengers of God be left as free as possible to labor for the multitudes who are unwarned.?{PH020 1.3}[3]
To my brethren in positions of responsibility I would say, the needs of the large cities have been kept before you. You have had message after message concerning your duty. And now what will you do that the charge of the Lord may be obeyed? Upon all the Lord is calling: “And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we (first) believed. The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light;” “redeeming the time, because the days are evil.”?{PH020 1.4}[4]
As we begin active work for the multitudes in the cities, the enemy will work mightily to bring in confusion, hoping thus to break up the working forces. Some who are not thoroughly converted, are in constant danger of mistaking the suggestions of the enemy for leadings of the Spirit of God. As the Lord has given us light, let us walk in the light. We are not to be satisfied with a cheap experience. We need to examine ourselves to see where we fail, that on these points we may gain precious victories.?{PH020 2.1}[5]
All boasting is sinful. Let us put away all self-exaltation, and heed the invitation of Christ. He says, Come unto Me; copy My character; take My yoke upon you, and learn of Me; for I am meek and lowly in heart; and ye shall find rest unto your souls. When professed Christians manifest Christ-likeness by revealing his meekness, then they will give evidence that they are born into the kingdom of Christ.?{PH020 2.2}[6]
The workers in the harvest field are the Lord’s messengers, they are to help one another. May the Lord help us that we may obtain great victories. Then, knowing the source of our strength, let us hold fast, looking unto Jesus the Author and the Finisher of our faith.?{PH020 2.3}[7]
Satan is at work with vehement power to divert the minds of the multitudes, so that they shall not understand and obey the truth. He will entangle them with every snare that he can devise. The picture of his deceptive work has been presented to me again and again for many years.?{PH020 2.4}[8]
But his supreme effort is to ensnare and deceive church members who have had long experience, and ministers of the gospel of Christ. With all their ingenuity, Satan and the armies under him are working with their superior knowledge to deceive, if possible, the very elect. By self-exaltation we become weak, and invite the temptations of the enemy. Our safety is to practice heartily the truths of the Bible. By humbling ourselves before God we invite His saving power.?{PH020 3.1}[9]
Let every minister standing in defense of the truth realize that he is to do his work under the direction of the Lord Jesus Christ. We must remember that though they have lost their first state, the fallen angels are wise above the wisdom of earth; for they have been in the councils of heaven.?{PH020 3.2}[10]
I have felt a heavy burden that our leading ministers shall be found faithful to their trust, wise, and discriminating. If a wrong spirit is cherished by those who are appointed to be light bearers, the carrying of the soul-saving messages to the multitude will be hindered, and souls will be lost. What is needed now is thorough conversion and whole-hearted consecration. He who is closely connected with Christ will be strengthened to withstand human and satanic devisings. We are living in perilous times, and it is not in the order of the Lord that our ministers shall dwell upon questions about which there is known to be a serious difference of opinion among themselves.?{PH020 3.3}[11]
Let nothing be done rashly, in a manner that will arouse prejudice. Let no one act on?impulse, putting forth publications of such a nature as to weaken the hand of God’s messengers, and close doors to the entrance of the truth.?{PH020 3.4}[12]
Christ was the majesty of heaven, the only begotten Son of God. Yet “God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”?{PH020 4.1}[13]
Christ clothed His divinity with humanity, that He might encircle humanity. Can not his followers be willing to submit to some things that they can not clearly understand, in order to be able to help those who need help??{PH020 4.2}[14]
Our cities are to be worked. To devote our efforts to other worthy enterprises, and leave unworked our cities, in which are large numbers of all nationalities, is not wise. A beginning is now to be made, and means must be raised that the work may go forward. With mighty power the cry is again to be sounded in our large centers of population. “Behold the Bridegroom cometh, go ye out to meet Him.”?{PH020 4.3}[15]
Money is needed for the prosecution of the work in New York, Boston, Portland, Philadelphia, Buffalo, Chicago, St. Louis, New Orleans, and many other cities. In some of these places the people were mightily stirred by the message given in 1842 to 1844, but of late years little has been done compared to the great work that ought to be in progress. And it seems difficult to make our people feel a special burden for the work in the large cities.?{PH020 4.4}[16]
I appeal to our brethren who have heard?the message for many years. It is time to wake up the watchmen. I have expended my strength in giving the message the Lord has given me. The burden of the needs of our cities has rested so heavily upon me that it has sometimes seemed that I should die. May the Lord give wisdom to our brethren, that they may know how to carry forward the work in harmony with the will of the Lord.(Signed) Ellen G. White?{PH020 4.5}[17]
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