洛马林达信息
(完整版)
LOMA LINDA MESSAGES (UNABRIDGED)
(本文括号内的数字指伯登长老最初编辑的《洛马林达信息》、神圣的指示、怀爱伦灵感之笔“蓝图”时的分页。){LLM 1.1}
(1)一项伟大的工作
在藉着预言之灵传给加利福尼亚州南部工人的信息中，因为那个地区的旅游流量很大，就着重强调了在不同的重要中心建立强大的机构工作的可取性。怀姐妹在一封写于1905年11月1日的信中说：“曾被呈现在我面前的事，乃是原应在加利福尼亚州南部建立许多疗养院;因为那里会有大量的人口流入。许多人会追求那里的气候。”{LLM 1.2}
铭记这是主的旨意的一部分，为要在加利福尼亚州南部推进祂的工作，我们就能更好地理解一直发出的要在这个园地做出非凡运动的呼吁了。在1904年买下了天堂谷疗养院，在1905年初区会又购买了在格兰代尔的疗养院。然而尽管有购买和装备这两个机构的所必有的财务重担，还是发出了在另一个重要中心为上帝建立纪念物的呼吁。{LLM 1.3}
怀姐妹在1905年2月写给住在雷德兰兹的一位弟兄的一封信中说：“我希望你在雷德兰兹看到一个合适的地方能用作疗养院，以合理的价格出售时，你要让我们知道这事。我们需要在雷德兰兹有一所疗养院。我们若不开办这种企业，别人就会开办。……{LLM 1.4}
“我提到这事只是以便你将它放在心上。我们不会采取任何步骤在雷德兰兹建立一个疗养院，直到我们确信我们正在做正确的事情。”{LLM 1.5}
(2)两个月后她写道：“雷德兰兹和里弗赛德作为应当作工的地方呈现在我面前。这两个地方不应再被忽视。我希望不久就能看到为它们付出认真的努力。请考虑在这些城镇附近建立疗养院的可取性，在每个地方都有治疗室作为该机构的支线。”{LLM 1.6}
在同一封信中我们看到这句话：“我们在加利福尼亚州南部各教会的人需要醒来，意识到在他们自己的境内必须做成之工的重大程度。”进而又说：“我有一个信息要传给在加利福尼亚州南部的教会肢体们：要醒来，并利用你们所拥有的机会。”{LLM 2.1}
指示买下洛马林达
下文是从美国首都华盛顿发给J.A.伯登长老的电报，请他买下在洛马林达的地产，“不要耽搁，”怀姐妹写道：{LLM 2.2}
“刚才读了你的信。我刚看完就说：‘我不会征求任何人的意见，因为我对这件事毫无疑问。’我劝威利给你发一封电报，不要花时间征求弟兄们的意见。要尽一切办法得到那块地产，以便占有它，然后获得你足能支付的所有钱来占有那个地方。这就是我们应该拥有的那块地产。不要耽搁;因为它正是我们所需要的。一得到它，工作组就可以在其中开始运作。我认为可以获得足够的帮助来完成这件事。我希望你确保在得到购买那块地产的权利方面不会浪费时间(3)。我们将尽最大努力帮助你筹集资金。我知道雷德兰兹和里弗赛德应当开工，我祈求主开恩，不要让别人而不是我们得到这块地产。”{LLM 2.3}
上述段落引自的信写于1905年5月14日。从那时到月底又给伯登长老写了四封信，强烈要求购买洛马林达，并且给出有力地保证，上帝的旨意是要获得这块地产。怀姐妹在5月26日的信中写道：“请放心，我的弟兄，我从来不会建议任何事，除非我已有了明确的印象应该得到实施，除非我坚定地决心提供帮助。……你若可以，就尽一切办法得到这块地产;因为我相信它就是主希望我们得到的地方。{LLM 2.4}
符合从前的异象
那些与这些指示一致，采取措施得到那块地产的人，得到了怀姐妹从总会回家途中访问洛马林达后所做声明的保证，说这块地产完全符合她曾蒙指示看到应该买下的那些地方的异象的画面。她在一封1905年6月23日在格兰代尔写给南方一位弟兄的信中，写到了这块地产：{LLM 2.5}
“直到最近这次访问，我以前从未亲眼见过这样的地方，然而四年前，这样一个地方就曾在异象中显在我面前，作为那些我们若是行事明智，就会得到的地方之一。它是一个极好的地方，我们可以在那里开始为雷德兰兹和里弗赛德工作。我们必须做出坚决的努力以获得愿意做最(4)忠心的医疗布道工作的帮手。上帝若赐福所施的治疗，基督就必让人感受到祂医治的能力，一项奇妙的工作就会完成。”{LLM 3.1}
还有一次，怀姐妹写道：“所有的建筑都准备好了，我们一找到必要的医生和护士，就必须开始工作。我急于看到工作开始。一段时间以来，我一直在寻找像这样一个地方，有很好的建筑，随时可以入住，周围是荫凉的树木和果园。当我看到洛马林达时，我说，感谢主，这正是我一直希望找到的地方。{LLM 3.2}
“建筑物的特点，被优美的胡椒树所覆盖的梯田山，缤纷的花丛，茂盛的灌木，高大的树荫树，以及果园和田野，都使这个地方完全符合我在过去所给出的曾呈现给我的适合疗养院工作的那个最完美地方的描述。洛马林达的一切都是新鲜、健康和有吸引力的。”{LLM 3.3}
要成为一个教育中心
这样，显而易见，预言之灵关于购买这块地产的勉言是非常明确和积极的。然而问题会出现，工作的发展有没有同样的勉言来引导和指导呢?{LLM 3.4}
买下那块地产之后，甚至在怀姐妹最初的信函中，就清楚地告知要在洛马林达推进一项重要的教育工作。她在一封写给赫斯格长老、邀请他在加利福尼亚州南部工作的信中说：(5){LLM 3.5}
“我们必须很快在洛马林达开办一所护士培训学校。这个地方将成为一个重要的中心，我们需要你和你妻子的努力，为这个新的教育中心提供正确的模式。”{LLM 3.6}
下文写于1905年11月1日，也很中肯：“将尽快建立一所学校，主必开路。……既有主楼和所有相关的建筑，我们就有很大的有利条件。我们若是存谦卑的心与上帝同行，并且按照祂已使我们兴旺的程度行事，就必有基督作我们的朋友和帮助者。‘若有人要跟从我，就当舍己，背起他的十字架来跟从我’(太16:24)。这就是我们作门徒的条件。我们愿意遵守这些条件吗?”{LLM 3.7}
太平洋联合会医疗大会的决议
1907年1O月28-31日在洛马林达举行了太平洋联合会医疗大会，总会会长、副会长还有总会医疗部部长出席了大会。在这次大会上，怀姐妹于10月31发表了一次讲话，这样讲到了在洛马林达的教育工作：{LLM 4.1}
“这里有建立学校和疗养院的理想条件。对学生和病人都很有利。我蒙指示，这里应设立一所学校，按照古代先知学校的原则办学。学校各方面工作可能与世俗的学校不同，可是它特别适合于那些立志献身为主无私服务，而不是经商谋利的人。{LLM 4.2}
(6)“我们需要一所高质量的学校，在这所学校里要重视上帝的话：教导人顺从圣经的训言。为了办好这所学校，我们必须小心挑选教员。我们的青年不要完全依赖一般学校，在那里他们被告知：‘你若要完成学业，就得修这门课程或那门课程’——这些课程对于那些专望把上帝健康平安的信息传遍普天下的人也许没有什么实际价值。许多人所接受的教育中，不仅有一些无用的功课，还有一些绝对有害的课程。我们所应该努力提供的教育是能迅速地预备学生为同胞服务。{LLM 4.3}
“我们所招收的学生应是愿意深入研究上帝的圣言，在生活上实行圣经真理的人。我们所给的教育应能使献身的男女青年出来与其伟大的使命相称，‘所以，你们要去，使万民作我的门徒，奉父、子、圣灵的名给他们施洗。凡我所吩咐你们的，都教训他们遵守’(太28:19,20)。{LLM 4.4}
对医生的培训
怀姐妹在回答“你提到的这所学校只培养合格的护士吗?还是也培养合格的医生呢?”这个问题时说：{LLM 4.5}
“医生们要在这里接受教育。他们在这里所受的训练应使他们出来后不会谋求最高的工资，(7)否则什么都不做。”{LLM 4.6}
早在1905年12月10日，怀姐妹就曾写信给伯登长老夫妇：“至于学校，我想说的是，要在护士和医生的教育方面尽你所能。”{LLM 5.1}
但是，我们很难立即清楚地领悟在为全世界的工作培训医疗布道士方面所要完成的工作的规模。关于医生的培训可能涉及多少内容，大家的看法无法一致。一些人觉得我们没有希望成功地开设完整的医学课程;一些人认为我们可以开设一门专业课，使我们的学生能被公认为某种治疗体系的行医者，如正骨医生、按摩医师等等;还有些人则认为我们可以提供两到三年的医疗课程，把学生送到其它机构去完成他们的医学学业，在那里他们可能获得学位。{LLM 5.2}
大会既认为总会医疗部应当认真研究对医生的培训和洛马林达教育工作的发展，又相信工作的规模要求我们的人在全世界的支持，便一致投票通过下列决议：{LLM 5.3}
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决议
“鉴于，洛马林达福音传道学院已经建立，为教育和训练那些将要进入国内外布道园地去教导福音和医治病人的人：此外，{LLM 5.4}
(8)“鉴于，在国内外这些布道园地需要成千上万医疗布道福音布道士，完全有资格传达福音信息和照顾病人，通过勤奋学习和经验获得了非凡的能力作为护士操劳;因此，——{LLM 5.5}
“1. 兹决议，我们赞同洛马林达福音传道学院的创建者和管理者们努力装备和管理一所与洛马林达疗养院有关的学校;我们鼓励他们加强它的教职员工，继续在医疗布道士蒙召要从事的那些实际工作方面给它的学生提供彻底的教育和训练。{LLM 5.6}
“2. 兹决议，要求总会医疗部最认真地研究为我们的年轻人提供最有利的机会的问题，让他们获得必须拥有的资格，以便推进我们的医疗布道工作。{LLM 5.7}
“鉴于，如此管理洛马林达福音传道学院以致为国内外布道园地培训工人方面要做成最好的工作的财务重担过于洛马林达疗养院和加利福尼亚州南部区会所能独立承担的;因此，——{LLM 6.1}
“3. 兹决议，我们请太平洋联合会和总会帮助承担这所学院的费用。{LLM 6.2}
(UNABRIDGED)
(Consecutive parenthetically enclosed numbers of this copy indicate the paging of Elder Burden’s original compilation of “Loma Linda Messages”, divine instruction, the “blue-print” through the inspired pen of Ellen G. White.) {LLM 1.1}
A Great Work
In the messages that have been sent through the Spirit of Prophecy to the workers in Southern California, great emphasis has been placed upon the advisability, because of the great tourist traffic in that section, of establishing strong institutional work in various important centers. In a letter written November 1, 1905, Sister White said: “The matter was presented to me that many sanitariums would have to be established in Southern California, for there would be a great inflowing of people there. Many would seek that climate.” {LLM 1.2}
Bearing this in mind as a part of the Lord’s purpose for the carrying forward of His work in Southern California, we can better understand the calls that have been made for extraordinary movements in this field. In 1904 the Paradise Valley Sanitarium was secured, and early in 1905 the conference purchased the sanitarium at Glendale. Yet notwithstanding the financial burdens necessarily connected with the purchased and equipment of these two institutions, a call was made to establish a memorial for God in another important center. {LLM 1.3}
In a letter written in February, 1905, to a brother living in Redlands, Sister White said: “I hope that when you find a suitable place in Redlands, which could be used as a sanitarium, offered for sale at a reasonable price, you will let us know about it. We shall need a sanitarium in Redlands. Unless we start an enterprise of this kind, others will... {LLM 1.4}
“I merely mention this matter so that you may keep it in view. We shall not take any steps to establish a sanitarium in Redlands until we can be assured that we are doing the right thing.” {LLM 1.5}
Two months later she wrote: “Redlands and Riverside have been presented to me as places that should be worked. These two places should not longer be neglected. I hope soon to see an earnest effort put forth in their behalf. Will you please consider the advisability of establishing a sanitarium in the vicinity of these towns, with treatment rooms in each place, to act as feeders to the institution?” {LLM 1.6}
In this same letter we find this statement: “Our people in Southern California need to awaken to the magnitude of the work to be done within their borders.” And further: “I have a message to bear to the church-members in Southern California: Arouse, and avail yourselves of the opportunities open to you.” {LLM 2.1}
Instruction to Secure Loma Linda
Following the telegram sent to Elder J. A. Burden from Washington, D. C., asking him to secure the property at Loma Linda, “without delay”, Sister White wrote: {LLM 2.2}
“Your letter has just been read. I had no sooner finished reading it than I said, “I will consult no one; for I have no question at all about the matter.” I advised Willie to send you a telegram without spending time to ask the advise of the brethren. Secure the property by all means, so that it can be held, and then obtain all the money you can and make sufficient payments to hold the place. This is the very property that we ought to have. Do not delay; for it is just what is needed. As soon as it is secured, a working force can begin operations in it. I think that sufficient help can be secured to carry this matter through. I want you to be sure to lose no time in securing the right to purchase the property. We will do our utmost to help you raise the money. I know that Redlands and Riverside are to be worked, and I pray that the Lord may be gracious, and not allow any one else to get this property instead of us.” {LLM 2.3}
The letter from which the foregoing paragraph is quoted was written May 14, 1905. Between that time and the end of the month four other letters were written to Elder Burden, emphatically urging the purchase of Loma Linda, and giving strong assurances that it was in the purpose of God that this property be secured. “Be assured, my brother,” Sister White wrote in a letter dated May 26,“that I never advise anything unless I have a decided impression that it should be carried out, and unless I am firmly resolved to assist..... By all means secure the property if you can; for I believe it to be the very place the Lord desires us to have. {LLM 2.4}
Answered to Former Representations
Those who, in harmony with these directions, took steps to secure the property, were further assured by statements made by Sister White after she had visited Loma Linda on her return from the General Conference, that it answered fully to representations of places she had been shown should be secured. In a letter written from Glendale, June 23, 1905, to a brother in the South, she wrote regarding the property: {LLM 2.5}
“Until this recent visit, I had never before seen such a place with my natural eyes, but four years ago such a place was presented before me as one of those that would come into our possession if we moved wisely. It is a wonderful place in which to begin our work for Redlands and Riverside. We must make decided efforts to secure helpers who will do most faithful missionary work. If God will bless the treatments given, and Christ will let His healing power be felt, a wonderful work will be accomplished.” {LLM 3.1}
On another occasion Sister White wrote: “The buildings are all ready, and work must be begun as soon as we can secure the necessary physicians and nurses. I am anxious to see the work started. For some time I have been looking for just such a place as this, with buildings all ready for occupancy, surrounded by shade-trees and orchards. When I saw Loma Linda, I said, Thank the Lord. This is the very place we have been hoping to find. {LLM 3.2}
“The character of the buildings, the terraced hill covered by graceful pepper trees, the profusion of flowers and shrubs, the tall shade-trees, the orchard fields,—all combine to make this place meet fully the descriptions that I have given in the past of the place presented to me as the most perfect for sanitarium work. Everything at Loma Linda is fresh and wholesome and attractive.” {LLM 3.3}
To Become an Educational Center
Thus it is evident that the counsels of the Spirit of Prophecy were very clear and positive regarding the securing of the property. But the question will arise, has the growth of the work been guided and directed by the same counsels? {LLM 3.4}
Clear intimation of an important educational work to be carried forward at Loma Linda is indicated even among the first communications that were sent by Sister White after the property was secured. In a letter written to Elder Haskell, inviting him to labor in Southern California, she said: {LLM 3.5}
“We must soon start a nurses’ training school at Loma Linda. This place will become an important center, and we need the efforts of yourself and your wife to give the right mold to the work in this new educational center.” {LLM 3.6}
The following written November 1, 1905, is also to the point: “A school will be established as soon as possible, and the Lord will open the way... With all the buildings in connection with the main buildings, we have great advantages. If we will walk humbly with God, and do according to that which He hath prospered us, we will have Christ as our friend and our helper. “If any man will come after Me, let him deny himself and take up his cross, and follow Me.” These are the terms of our discipleship. Will we comply with them?” {LLM 3.7}
Action of Pacific Union Medical Convention
October 28 to 31, 1907, there was held at Loma Linda a medical convention for the Pacific Union Conference, at which were present the president and the vice-president of the General Conference, and the secretary of the medical department of the General Conference. At this convention, Sister White, in a talk given October 31, spoke thus of the educational work at Loma Linda: {LLM 4.1}
“Here we have ideal advantages for a school and for a sanitarium. Here are advantages for the students and great advantages for the patients. I have been instructed that here we should have a school conducted on the principles of the ancient schools of the prophets. It may not be carried on in every respect, as are the schools of the world, but it is to be especially adapted for those who desire to devote their lives, not to commercial pursuits, but to unselfish service for the Master. {LLM 4.2}
“We want a school of the highest order,—a school where the word of God will be regarded as essential, and where obedience to its teachings will be taught. For the carrying forward of such a school, we must have carefully selected educators. Our young people are not to be wholly dependent on the schools where they are told, ‘If you wish to complete our course of instruction, you must take this study, or some other study,’—studies that perhaps would be of no practical benefit to those whose only desire is to give to the world God’s message of health and peace. In the education that many receive there are not only subjects that are non-essential, but much that is decidedly objectionable. We should endeavor to give instruction that will prepare students quickly for service to their fellow-men. {LLM 4.3}
“We are to seek for students who will plow deep into the Word of God, and who will conform the life-practice to the truths of the Word. Let the education given be such as will qualify consecrated young men and young women to go forth in harmony with the great commission, ‘Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you.’ {LLM 4.4}
For the Training of Physicians
In answer to a question, “Is this school that you have spoken of simply to qualify nurses? or is it to embrace also the qualification of physicians?” Sister White replied: {LLM 4.5}
“Physicians are to receive their education here. Here they are to receive such a mold that when they go out to labor they will not seek to grasp the very highest wages, or else do nothing.” {LLM 4.6}
As early as December 10, 1905, Sister White had written to Elder and Mrs. Burden, “In regard to the school, I would say, Make it all you possibly can in the education of nurses and physicians.” {LLM 5.1}
But it was difficult for us to grasp at once a clear comprehension of the magnitude of the work to be accomplished in the training of medical missionaries for the world-wide work. All could not see alike as to how much might be involved in the training of physicians. Some felt that we could not hope successfully to give a complete medical course; others thought that we might give a special course that would enable our students to be recognized as practitioners of some system of healing, as are osteopaths, chiropractors, etc; while others thought that we might give two or three years of the medical course, sending the students to some other institution to complete their medical studies, where they might be granted degrees. {LLM 5.2}
Feeling that careful study should be given by the General Conference Medical Department to the training of physicians and to the development of the educational work at Loma Linda, and believing also that the magnitude of the work called for the world-wide support of our people, the convention voted unanimously the following resolutions: {LLM 5.3}
Resolutions
“Whereas, the Loma Linda School of Evangelists has been established for the education and training of those who shall go forth into home and foreign mission fields to teach the gospel and to heal the sick: and, {LLM 5.4}
“Whereas, In these home and foreign mission fields there is need of thousands of medical missionary evangelists, thoroughly qualified to carry the gospel message and to minister to the sick, laboring as nurses who through diligent study and experience have acquired extraordinary ability; therefore,— {LLM 5.5}
“1. Resolved, That we approve of the efforts of the founders and managers of the Loma Linda School of Evangelists, to equip and conduct a school in connection with the Loma Linda Sanitarium; and we encourage them to strengthen its faculty, and to continue to give its students a thorough education and training in those practical lines of work in which the medical evangelist is called to engage. {LLM 5.6}
“2. Resolved, That the General Conference Medical Department be requested to give most careful study to the question of providing for our young people the most favorable opportunities for them to secure the qualifications that they must have in order to carry forward the medical missionary work of our cause. {LLM 5.7}
“Whereas, The financial burden of so conducting the Loma Linda School of Evangelists that the very best work shall be done in training workers for home and foreign mission fields is more than the Loma Linda Sanitarium and the Southern California Conference can carry unaided; therefore,— {LLM 6.1}
“3. Resolved, That we ask the Pacific Union Conference and the General Conference to assist in bearing the expense of this school. {LLM 6.2}
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