呼吁自养的工人进入未开发的园地
前言
发出警告
应当发出一种警告,遍及海角天涯。告诉万民说,耶和华的大日临近,临近而且甚快。不要让一个人未受过警告。我们本可以处在一般陷于错误中的可怜的生灵中。我们本可以处在无教化的野蛮人中间。按着我们所领受的高逾众人的真理而论,我们乃是欠他们的债,应当将这真理分赐给他们。(怀爱伦《教会证言》卷六22页){PH005 4.1}
请看将亡的世界
我们处在永恒世界的边缘。上帝的审判已经开始临到地上的居民。上帝藉着这些审判使男女们得以醒悟。凡祂允许在我们世上发生的每一件事,祂都有目的,而且祂渴望我们有属灵的心志,这样,我们就会在过去发生不同寻常的事件中领会到祂的作为,而现在这类事几乎天天发生。{PH005 4.2}
我们前面有一番伟大的工作,就是把上帝末后警告的信息传给罪恶的世界。这是祂收尾的工作。但我们做了什么来传讲这信息呢?我恳求你们,要看一看那许许多多至今从未进入的地方。看一看我们的工人们日复一日地行走在同一块土地上,而在他们周围就是被忽视的世界,卧在罪恶与腐败之中——一个还未被警告过的世界。我觉得这是一副可怕的画面。我们对沦亡世界的需要表现出何等的漠不关心啊!(《教会证言》卷七103页){PH005 4.3}
PH005 - An Appeal for Self-supporting Laborers to Enter Unworked Fields
《Introductio》
【Sound an Alarm】
Sound an alarm throughout the length and breadth of the earth. Tell the people that the day of the Lord is near, and hasteth greatly. Let none be left unwarned. We might have been in the place of the poor souls that are in error. We might have been placed among barbarians. According to the truth we have received above others, we are debtors to impart the same to them.—Ellen G. White in?Testimonies for the Church 6:22.?{PH005 4.1}[1]
【Behold a Perishing World】
We are on the verge of the eternal world. The judgments of God are already begun to fall upon the inhabitants of the land. God sends these judgments to bring men and women to their senses. He has a purpose in everything that He permits to take place in our world, and He desires us to be so spiritually-minded that we shall be able to perceive His work in the events so unusual in the past, but now of almost daily occurrence.?{PH005 4.2}[2]
We have before us a great work—the closing work of giving God’s last warning message to a sinful world. But what have we done to give this message? Look, I beg of you, at the many, many places that have never yet been even entered. Look at our workers treading over and over the same ground, while around them is a neglected world, lying in wickedness and corruption,—a world as yet unwarned. To me this is an awful picture. What appalling indifference we manifest to the needs of a perishing world!—Testimonies for the Church 7:103.?{PH005 4.3}[3]