基督复临安息日会学校的老师和教会领袖们发现，几乎总是能从已发表和未发表的怀爱伦著作中通过精选文摘和思想珠宝收集到适合他们的丰富材料。因而，在1973和1974年，当准备召开基督化领导系列研讨会时，怀爱伦著作托管委员会的书记和研讨会的主任便合作预备了一本《怀爱伦论基督化领导》的小册子。
那本小册得到广泛使用，并且深受赏识。然而，多年以后，领导研讨会不再定期举行，那本小册也就绝版了。当时以为它已起到自己的作用，不会重新发行了。然而，对它的需求却在继续增长。为了满足这种需求，我们现在出版这个新版本。我们祈愿其中的勉言会赐福和加强上帝已安置在祂教会中负责岗位上的男男女女。
怀爱伦著作托管委员会
1985年3月1日
于美国首都华盛顿
1995年9月重印
IN HIS LOVE AND MERCY, GOD PROVIDED THROUGH ELLEN G. WHITE A RICH TREASURE OF INSPIRED COUNSEL ON A WIDE VARIETY OF SUBJECTS THAT ARE IMPORTANT TO THE REMNANT CHURCH IN ITS TASK OF CARRYING THE THREE ANGELS' MESSAGES TO THE WORLD. AMONG THE SUBJECTS DEALT WITH IN THIS COUNSEL ARE EDUCATION, DIET, HOME AND FAMILY, EVANGELISM, HEALTHFUL LIVING, PRACTICAL CHRISTIANITY, PUBLISHING, AND MEDICAL WORK.[1]
SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST SCHOOL TEACHERS AND CHURCH LEADERS HAVE DISCOVERED THAT MATERIALS FOR THEIR CLASSES ALMOST ALWAYS CAN BE ENRICHED BY CHOICE QUOTATIONS AND GEMS OF THOUGHT GATHERED FROM THE PUBLISHED AND UNPUBLISHED WRITINGS OF ELLEN WHITE. THUS, IN 1973 AND 1974, WHEN PREPARATIONS WERE BEING MADE TO CONDUCT A SERIES OF CHRISTIAN LEADERSHIP SEMINARS, THE SECRETARY OF THE WHITE ESTATE AND THE DIRECTOR OF THE SEMINARS COLLABORATED IN PREPARING A BOOKLET OF ELLEN WHITE COUNSELS ON CHRISTIAN LEADERSHIP.[2]
THE BOOKLET WAS WIDELY USED AND MUCH APPRECIATED. HOWEVER, AFER A NUMBER OF YEARS, WHEN THE LEADERSHIP SEMINARS WERE NO LONGER BEING CONDUCTED ON A REGULAR BASIS, THE BOOKLET WAS ALLOWED TO GO OUT OF PRINT. IT WAS ASSUMED THAT IT HAD SERVED ITS PURPOSE AND WOULD NOT BE REISSUED. HOWEVER, DEMAND FOR IT HAS CONTINUED. TO MEET THE DEMAND, WE NOW OFFER THIS NEW EDITION. WE SEND IT FORTH WITH A PRAYER THAT ITS COUNSELS MAY BLESS AND STRENGTHEN THE MEN AND WOMEN WHOM GOD HAS PLACED IN POSITIONS OF RESPONSIBILITY IN HIS CHURCH.[3]
The Board of Trustees of the Ellen G. White Estate Washington, D. C. March 1, 1985. Reprinted September, 1995[4]
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