THE ORIENTAL WATCHMAN
《东方守望者》文章
1909年12月1日
孤独者的朋友
你们遭受试探、考验和灰心的人应当当仰望。一只神圣的手正伸向你们。无限之主越过天国的城垛，要拉住你们的手拥抱你们。大能的帮助者十分乐意帮助那些最有错、最有罪、最绝望的人。祂伟大的爱心深切而温柔地同情那些粗心大意、忽视自己永恒利益的人。{OW December 1, 1909, par. 1}
对个人的关怀、爱心和同情
让我们记住，耶稣认识我们每一个人，祂关心我们每一个人，就好像地球上没有另一个人存在。祂同情我们的软弱，知道祂所创造的每一个人的需要，并能读懂每一颗心里隐藏的、无法言说的悲伤。若是祂所替死的小孩子有一个受伤，祂会看见，因为祂知道一切被人误解和歪曲的事。.{OW December 1, 1909, par. 2}
基督已衡量人间的每一样痛苦、每一种忧伤。祂承受每一个与祂一同负轭之人的轭的重量。祂洞悉我们心灵深处所感受的莫可言宣的忧伤。即或世人的心对我们并不生发同情之感，我们也不必以为自己是缺乏同情的。基督全知道;并且祂还说，当仰望我，就得存活。{OW December 1, 1909, par. 3}
历代以来流贯人心的一切父子之爱，及启发人性的一切慈善之泉，若与上帝无穷无尽之爱相较，犹如涓涓小川之与浩浩海洋之比而已。口舌不能形容;笔墨也无法描述。。你可以经年累月地研究那爱;但却不能完全了解上帝牺牲祂的儿子为世人而死的爱，是何等长，阔，高，深。永恒的岁月，始终无法完全将它表明出来。OW December 1, 1909, par. 4}
感同身受
基督体谅祂最软弱跟随者的感受。祂的同情心非常强烈，不会对自己儿女的苦难无动于衷。没有一声叹息，没有一点痛苦，没有一种刺透灵魂的悲哀，不会触动天父亲的心。{OW December 1, 1909, par. 5}
世界的救赎主身为忠诚的医师给人的心灵把脉。祂记下每一次心跳，留意每一次脉动。没有一次情感的波动，没有一片心中的愁云，没有一点沾染心灵的罪恶，没有一种思想或目的，是祂所不了解的{OW December 1, 1909, par. 6}
基督同情每一个受苦之人的患难。当邪灵摧毁一个人的身体时，基督总能感受他的伤痛。当热病烧尽一个人的生命气力时，祂也能感受到他的痛苦。{OW December 1, 1909, par. 7}
与上帝交谈
上帝在祂的宝座上垂听那些受压迫者的呼求。祂对每一个诚心的祈祷回答说：“我在这里。”从一颗破碎痛悔的心里发出的祈祷从未被忽视;这声音在我们的天父耳中就像美妙的音乐，因为祂等着要把祂丰盛的福气赐给我们。T{OW December 1, 1909, par. 8}
凭信心献上的真诚祷告，必被上天听见。它可能不符合语法，但主要用心，就必升到耶稣供职的圣所。祂会把祷告呈奉天父，不再带一句期期艾艾的话，却因祂的功劳而变得优雅完美，因为祂的公义纯炼和提高了它，使它能在父面前蒙悦纳。{OW December 1, 1909, par. 9}
我们组号的动机和努力
当我们在心里归顺上帝，并为此而努力时，耶稣就把这种意向和努力接纳为人类所作的最好服务。祂要用自己神圣的功劳弥补我们的缺欠，因为祂是一切正义愿望的源头。{OW December 1, 1909, par. 10}
因救赎主的功劳，天父以温柔的怜悯看着我们，并满怀希望地对我们说宽恕和爱的话语，因为基督是我们应得的，我们也可以得到他应得的。他为我们的罪受了审判，这罪是他所没有的，叫我们因他的义称义，这义是我们没有分的。{OW December 1, 1909, par. 11}
顾及我们的最高利益
上帝不要求我们放弃任何对我们最有利的东西。祂所做的一切都是为了祂儿女的幸福。凡没有选择基督的人，若能认识到祂所赐给他们的，比他们自己所寻求的更好，那就好了。因为我们越认识上帝，我们的喜乐就越强烈。我们喜欢说话的嘴唇，虽然不洁净，却要被烧着的炭火所接触，得以洁净。它们将能说出一些话来，点燃通往人心灵的道路。
{OW December 1, 1909, par. 12}
怀爱伦夫人
OUR AUSTRALASIAN YOUTH AND SABBATH SCHOOL GUIDE
1-Dec-09
A Friend to the Friendless
You who are tempted and tried and discouraged, look up. A divine Hand is reached toward you. The hand of the Infinite is stretched over the battlements of heaven to grasp your hand in its embrace. The mighty Helper is nigh to help the most erring, the most sinful and despairing. His great heart of love is yearning with deep and tender compassion over those who are careless and neglectful of their eternal interests. {OW, December 1, 1909 par. 1}
Individual Care, Love, and Sympathy
Let us remember that Jesus knows us individually, and he cares for each one as though there were not another soul on the face of the earth. He is touched with the feeling of our infirmities. He knows the wants of each of his creatures, and reads the hidden, unspoken grief of every heart. If one of the little ones for whom he died is injured, he sees it; for he is acquainted with all that is misunderstood and misrepresented by man. {OW, December 1, 1909 par. 2}
Christ has weighed every human affliction, every human sorrow. He bears the weight of the yoke for every soul that yokes up with him. He knows the sorrows which we feel to the depth of our being, and which we can not express. If no human heart is aroused in sympathy for us, we need not feel that we are without sympathy. Christ knows; and he says,
All the paternal love which has come down from generation to generation through the channel of human hearts, all the springs of tenderness which have opened in the souls of men, are but as a tiny rill to the boundless ocean, when compared with the infinite, exhaustless love of God. Tongue can not utter it; pen can not portray it. You may study that love for ages; yet you can never fully comprehend the length and the breadth, the depth and the height, of the love of God in giving his Son to die for the world. Eternity itself can never fully reveal it. {OW, December 1, 1909 par. 4}
Fellowship in Suffering
Christ is affected as his weakest follower is affected. The sympathy of Christ is such that he can not be an indifferent spectator of his children's sufferings. Not a sigh is breathed, not a pain felt, not a grief pierces the soul, but the throb vibrates to the Father's heart. {OW, December 1, 1909 par. 5}
As a faithful Physician, the world's Redeemer has his finger upon the pulse of the soul. He marks every beat; he takes note of every throb. Not an emotion thrills it, not a sorrow shades it; not a sin stains it, not a thought or purpose passes through it, with which he is not acquainted. {OW, December 1, 1909 par. 6}
Christ feels the woes of every sufferer. When evil spirits rend a human frame, Christ feels the curse. When fever is burning up the life current, he feels the agony. {OW, December 1, 1909 par. 7}
Talking with God
God is bending from his throne to hear the cry of the oppressed. To every sincere prayer he answers,
The prayer of the sincere heart offered in faith will be heard in heaven. It may not be grammatical; but if the heart is in it, it will ascend to the sanctuary where Jesus ministers, and he will present it to the Father without one awkward, stammering word, graceful and perfect through his merit; for his righteousness refines and ennobles it, and makes it acceptable before the Father. {OW, December 1, 1909 par. 9}
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