1908年7月19日
再三的劝勉
主再一次向我表明：凡在我们的疗养院照顾病人的人，都应该谨记，这些机构是为一项特别的工作建立的，经办的方式要给上帝带来尊荣。{PC 2.1}
我们的疗养院应该建在幽静的地方，摆脱一切噪音和混乱，比如马车和街车的隆隆声。{PC 2.2}
主已教导我们，极有效的治疗在于适当地使用水。这些治疗应当娴熟地操作。我们已蒙指示，在治疗病人的时候，应当放弃药物的使用。有简单的草药能用来使病人康复。这些草药对人体系统的影响与那些毒害血液危及生命的药物大不相同。{PC 2.3}
我们的女医生人数应该增加。应该注意让女护士照顾女病人，男护士照顾男病人。{PC 2.4}
我要对我们的医生们说，绝不要让你们的病人以为人体本身有能力治愈疾病。你们在医治疾病的工作中应比过去更加依靠与那位大医师的合作。你们的信心应把握住基督的功效，以作出行之有效的努力使病人恢复健康。{PC 2.5}
在我们的机构里，有些人自称相信健康改良的原则，却仍在放纵肉食和其他明知对于健康有害的食物。我奉主的名对这些人说，你们如果拒绝实行我们的机构所坚持的原则，就不要在其中任职;因为你们这样做，会使那些努力按正确方针开展工作的教师和领袖们工作加倍艰辛。要清扫君王的大道，不要堵塞祂传达信息的途径。{PC 2.6}
我蒙指示，在传播信息的初期所赐给我们的原则，应当像过去一样，受到我们今日信徒的重视。有人从来没有实行所赐给我们有关饮食问题的亮光。现在应当将灯从斗底下取出，让它发出明亮的光辉。{PC 2.7}
一些人不愿接受亮光，宁愿走在自己选择的路上，他们要在证言中找一些材料，来鼓励不信和悖逆的精神。这样就带进来一种分裂的精神。这种精神既然导致他们批评证言，同样也会导致他们监视自己的弟兄，好发现可责之处。{PC 3.1}
撒但的叛逆将他从天庭中赶出，凡跟他一起与基督争战的人，都与他一同被赶出了。撒但对天上政府运用的诱骗技术，并没有因他从上帝面前被驱逐而停止。年复一年，这些技术变得越来越具有欺骗性，越加微妙，越加坚定。每一个被拒绝的额外的证据都会增加他抵抗上帝和基督政权的能力。每一线希望被抵制，都有助于为他和他的追随者创造一个毫无希望的未来。{PC 3.2}
撒但已使人转离真安息日的敬拜，这安息日是上帝在创世的时候所分别为圣并赐福，又在西奈山上在可怕的威严中向祂百姓重申了的。凡拒绝有关上帝律法要求的神圣信息的人，都拒绝真理。上帝顺命的子民应当在各方面坚持真理。当撒但试图控制人的心思意念时，这是人唯一的希望。{PC 3.3}
抵抗真理使人们被撒但任意掳去。今日那些坚持错误思想的人，对流行的谬论感到满意，拒绝清楚明白的“耶和华如此说，”显明要是他们生活在基督的时代，就会帮助增强凶残暴徒的喊叫声：“钉祂十字架!钉祂十字架!”{PC 3.4}
上帝要求祂的子民不断前进。他们需要认识到，放纵食欲乃是心智提高和心灵成圣的最大障碍。我们作为一班子民，虽然自称健康改良，却吃得太多。放纵食欲乃是身体和心智衰弱的最大原因，也是虚弱和早死的主要基础。不节制开始于我们的餐桌，在我们不明智地搭配食物的时候。正在寻求拥有纯正精神的人要记住，在基督里有能力控制食欲。{PC 3.5}
June 19, 1908 -8-MS. 73,’08
Counsels Repeated
Again representations have been made to me that all who have the care of the sick, in our sanitariums, should bear in mind that these institutions are established for a special work, and are to be conducted in a way that will bring honor to God.?{PC 2.1}
Our sanitariums should be established in retired places, that are free from all noise and confusion, such as the rumbling of carriages and street cars.?{PC 2.2} The Lord has taught us that great efficacy for healing lies in a proper use of water. These treatments should be given skillfully. We have been instructed that in our treatment of the sick we should discard the use of drugs. There are simple herbs that can be used for the recovery of the sick, whose effect upon the system is very different from that of those drugs that poison the blood and endanger life.?{PC 2.3}
The number of our lady physicians should be increased. Care should be taken that lady nurses have the care of lady patients, and gentleman nurses of gentleman patients.?{PC 2.4}
I would say to our physicians, Never allow your patients to think that in the human being is power to heal the sick. You are to depend much more than you have done on the co-operation of the Great Physician in the work of healing disease. Your faith is to lay hold upon the efficacy of Christ to make effectual the effort put forth for the recovery of the sick.?{PC 2.5}
There are some in our institutions who claim to believe the principles of health reform, and yet who indulge in the use of flesh-meats and other foods which they know to be injurious to health. I say to such in the name of the Lord, Do not accept positions in our institutions while you refuse to live the principles for which our institutions stand; for by doing this you make doubly hard the work of teachers and leaders who are striving to carry the work on right lines. Clear the King’s highway. Cease to block the way of the message He sends.?{PC 2.6}
I have been shown that the principles that were given us in the early days of the message are to be regarded as just as important by our people today as they were then. There are some who have never followed the light given us on the question of diet. It is time now to take the light from under the bushel, and let it shine forth in clear, bright rays.?{PC 2.7}
Some who are not willing to receive the light, but who prefer to walk in ways of their own choosing, will search the Testimonies to find something in them to encourage the spirit of unbelief and disobedience. Thus a spirit of disunion will be brought in; for the spirit which leads them to criticise the Testimonies will also lead them to watch their brethren to find in them something to condemn.?{PC 3.1}
Satan’s rebellion shut him out from the courts of heaven, and all who engaged with him in warfare against Christ were cast out with him. The exercise of Satan’s seductive arts against the government of heaven did not cease with his expulsion from the presence of God. Year by year they have grown more deceptive, more subtle, more determined. Every additional evidence rejected increases his power to resist the government of God and of Christ. And every ray of hope resisted, helps to create for him and his followers a hopeless future.?{PC 3.2}
Satan has turned men from the worship of the true Sabbath, which at the creation of the world God sanctified and blessed, and which on Mt. Sinai He repeated amid terrible majesty to His people. All who reject the sacred message regarding the requirements of the law of God, reject truth. God’s obedient people are to hold fast to truth in every line. This is the only hope of the soul when Satan seeks to take control of heart and mind.?{PC 3.3}
The resistance of truth leaves men captive to the will of Satan. Those who today hold fast to erroneous ideas, and feel satisfied with popular errors, rejecting a plain “Thus saith the Lord,” reveal that had they lived in the days of Christ, they would have helped to swell the cry of the murderous mob, “Crucify Him! Crucify Him!”?{PC 3.4}
God requires continual advancement from His people. They need to learn that indulged appetite is the greatest hindrance to mental improvement and soul sanctification. As a people, with all our profession of health reform, we eat too much. Indulgence of appetite is the greatest cause of physical and mental debility, and lies largely at the foundation of feebleness and premature death. Intemperance begins at our tables, when we use an unwise combination of foods. Let the individual who is seeking to possess purity of spirit, bear in mind that in Christ there is power to control the appetite. -?{PC 3.5}
1904年12月28日
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