《南方通讯》
1898年7月5日
1、对工人的勉励
上帝命令摩西去拯救以色列人的时候，发现他是一个缺乏自信，拙口笨舌，胆小怯懦的人。他觉得自己担不起向以色列人作上帝代言人的责任。可是当他接受了任务之后，他就完全依靠耶和华。他那伟大的使命是要他发挥他最大的心智能力。他因甘心顺从而蒙了上帝的赐福，他就成了一个有口才，有抱负，稳健老练的人，足能胜任上帝所赐空前的大工。这就是一个实例，说明凡完全依赖上帝，并毫无保留地献身来实行祂命令的人，上帝怎样加强他们的品格。{SW July 5, 1898, par. 1}
谦卑能干的工人顺命响应上帝的呼召，一定会得神圣的辅助。这种对于责任如此神圣伟大之感觉，会使人有超拔品格的力量，足以使人运用最高的智能，而且运用既久，就使心思意念坚固而纯洁。其影响于自身及别人的生命，实是无可计量的。{SW July 5, 1898, par. 2}
信靠上帝的能力，会使软弱的人变为刚强，使他的努力变得坚定不移，使他的成就非常优异。这是多么奇妙啊!犹豫不决的人因在上帝的圣工中运用自己的才能而变得坚定果断了。他既理解了自己是蒙世界的救赎主呼召与祂一起同工拯救人类的伟大事实，就将自己的生命奉献于圣工。他的本性变得高尚了;基督的使命以新的重要性和荣耀展现在他面前，他便深自谦卑地承认自己是与救主同工的。赐给人的职分没有比这个更高的了。没有比确信是上帝手中救灵的工具更喜乐的事了。能回顾一段尽显光辉结果的工作历程，看到宝贵的生灵因你的努力而在亮光中进步;感到上帝已在世上丰收的园地中与你同工并藉着你作工，乃是一件大美事。{SW July 5, 1898, par. 3}
粗心的观察者也许不重视你的工作，或看不出其重要来。他们也许想这是亏本的生意，一辈子作无人感激及自我牺牲之工。然而耶稣的仆人却以从十字架照出来的光看此事。在与赐福之主的那些牺牲相较之下，他的牺牲显然是微不足道，他就乐于追随主的脚踪了。他工作的成效使他得到最纯洁的喜乐，这也是一生耐劳苦干所得到的最丰富的报酬。{SW July 5, 1898, par. 4}
他回顾以往的时候，困扰着他的种种考验和困难在他心中并不显大。已经充分尽责的感觉弥补了他一切的苦难，而他将得的荣耀则使将来披上了天国之光。他扫视奋斗过的人生战场，能与保罗一同说：“我深信无论是死，是生，是天使，是掌权的，是有能的，是现在的事，是将来的事，是高处的，是低处的，是别的受造之物，都不能叫我们与上帝的爱隔绝;这爱是在我们的主基督耶稣里的”(罗8:38,39)。{SW July 5, 1898, par. 5}
怀爱伦夫人
THE SOUTHERN REVIEW
July 5, 1898
Encouraging Words to Workers
The divine command to deliver Israel, found Moses self-distrustful, slow of speech, and timid. He was overwhelmed with a sense of his incapacity to be a mouth-piece for God. But he accepted the work, putting all his trust in the Lord. The greatness of his mission called into exercise the best powers of his mind. God blessed his ready obedience, and he became eloquent, hopeful, self-possessed, and well fitted for the greatest work ever given to man. This is an example of what God does to strengthen the character of those who trust Him implicitly, and give themselves unreservedly to his commands.?{SW July 5, 1898, par. 1}
The humble, efficient worker, who obediently responds to the call of God, may be sure of receiving divine assistance. To feel so great and holy a responsibility is of itself elevating to the character. It calls into action the highest mental qualities, and their continued exercise strengthens and purifies mind and heart. The influence upon one’s own life, as well as upon the lives of others, is incalculable.?{SW July 5, 1898, par. 2}
It is wonderful how strong a weak man may become through faith in the power of God, how decided his efforts, how prolific of great results. The hesitating and irresolute, through exercising his abilities in the cause of God, becomes firm and decided. Taking in the great fact that he is called by the Redeemer of the world to work with him for the salvation of men, he dedicates his life to the work. His nature becomes exalted; the mission of Christ opens before him with new importance and glory, and with deep humility he recognizes in himself a co-laborer with the Saviour. No higher office is given to man. No joy can equal the assurance of being an instrument in the hands of God for saving souls. It is a grand thing to look back upon a course of labor all marked with glorious results; to see precious souls progressing in the light through your efforts; to feel that God has worked with and through you in the harvest field of the world.?{SW July 5, 1898, par. 3}
Careless spectators may not appreciate your work or see its importance. They may think it a losing business, a life of thankless labor and self-sacrifice. But the servant of Jesus sees it in the light shining from the cross. His sacrifices appear small in comparison with those of the blessed Master, and he is glad to follow in his steps. The success of his labor affords him the purest joy, and is the richest recompense for a life of patient toil.?{SW July 5, 1898, par. 4}
In reviewing the past, the trials and difficulties that have beset him are not magnified in his mind. The consciousness of duty performed amply compensates for all his sufferings, and the glory of his coming reward clothes the future with the light of heaven. Glancing over the well-fought field of life, he says with Paul, “I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”?{SW July 5, 1898, par. 5}
Mrs. E. G. White
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