1904年12月28日
1904年12月27日写于加利福尼亚州疗养院，“榆园”
亲爱的辛普森弟兄和姐妹：
关于你们选择在格兰代尔疗养院任职，我现在能感到安心了。那些在这个机构中负有主要责任的人，如果愿意寻求明白主的教导，就可以成为彼此的一大帮助。我非常希望你们与伯登弟兄和姐妹充任你们的重要位置时，会意识到一位属灵帮助者的同在，祂总是随时准备作你们议事会的首脑。我祈愿你们会感受到祂神圣的同在。在祂的指导下，你们谁也不需要灰心。{PC 3.6}
我确信你们会发现巴伦杰兄弟对你们的董事会有很大的帮助。他访问了许多地方，他的影响将对加利福尼亚州南部两个疗养院的建设起作用。{PC 3.7}
格兰代尔疗养院工人们团结的力量有赖于他们的心灵被天上的爱充满。基督以人性披覆了祂的神性，以便人类持住祂的功劳，并能认出顺从上帝的律法乃是恩典之约的美德。{PC 4.1}
世俗的政策计划不应该被交织进主的子民蒙赐予的模式中。凡接待基督的，就是信祂名的人，祂就赐他们权柄，作上帝的儿女。上帝宣布：“我要将我的律法放在他们里面”(来8:10)。大卫的祈祷表达了同样宝贵的保证：“行为完全、遵行耶和华律法的，这人便为有福!遵守祂的法度、一心寻求祂的，这人便为有福!这人不做非义的事，但遵行祂的道。耶和华啊，祢曾将祢的训词吩咐我们，为要我们殷勤遵守。……我看重祢的一切命令，就不至于羞愧。我学了祢公义的判语，就要以正直的心称谢祢。……少年人用什么洁净他的行为呢?是要遵行祢的话!我一心寻求了祢;求祢不要叫我偏离祢的命令”(诗119:1-4,6,7,9,10)。{PC 4.2}
我们的力量就在此。在格兰代尔疗养院的工人们若是愿意联合起来遵行主的旨意，主就必引导他们，像祂引导了大卫一样。{PC 4.3}
有一项大工要完成，就是把健康改良的原则传给大众。应当举行公众聚会介绍这个题目。要开办学校，使有兴趣的人更具体地了解我们的健康食品，以及如何不用肉、茶或咖啡等加工健康、营养、美味的饮食。{PC 4.4}
我们在工作的早期历史中就是这么做的。我们通过示范教导人们，我们可以安全地依赖上帝曾在伊甸园中赐给我们始祖的产品为生。{PC 4.5}
要让能讲论健康改良原则的人从事这项工作。你们不必觉得你们必须依靠凯洛格医生或任何远道而来的人。不，不必这样。在格兰代尔疗养院的奉献典礼上，要让你们最聪明的健康改良主题演讲者到前面来。要记住，上帝希望在加利福尼亚州南部的两个疗养院里的工人完全倚靠祂的智慧。{PC 4.6}
要尽量利用奉献典礼唤起人们对健康改良的兴趣。要用圣灵恩膏的全部力量，充分宣传节制问题。要说明完全戒除酒类的必要性。说明吸烟喝酒对于人体系统的可怕祸害。说明你们治疗的方法。要讲论这类开导听众的道理。上帝怜悯不义的人。这种服务将提供机会解释健康改革的真正意义。{PC 4.7}
这种服务会为疗养院作宣传，会大大帮助疗养院的工作。我们必须学习基督的方法。祂接受富人的宴会邀请。祂去参加这些宴会，因为祂知道在那里祂会有机会介绍真理。我们必须研究如何用现代真理接触大众。我们努力这么做的时候，上帝就会使那些不是我们信仰的人心中产生不能一笑置之的信念。他们会确信我们有真理。{PC 4.8}
要告诉他们我们所持守的原则，和我们为什么建立了疗养院，——是要在上帝的指导下，帮助减轻人类的痛苦。要告诉他们，医疗布道工作是要为基督已去为那些忠于祂诫命之人预备的地方预备人。要让他们明白，惟有上帝的爱才能保守祂的百姓确实在他们蒙召要为基督的缘故忍受的舍己和自我牺牲里。要常常重述《约翰福音》第十四章的前三节。这段经文是解决烦恼、失望和痛苦的灵丹妙药。坚信永生的盼望一定会让内心充满感激和感恩。{PC 5.1}
“Elmshaven,” Sanitarium, Cal.Dec. 27, 1904
Dear Brother and Sister Simpson,
I can now feel at rest in regard to the positions that you have been chosen to fill in the Glendale Sanitarium. Those bearing the chief responsibilities in that institution can be a great help to one another if they will seek to understand the Lord’s instruction. I have great hope that as you and Brother and Sister Burden fill your important places, you will realize the presence of a spiritual helper, One who is ever ready to be the head of your councils. I pray that you will feel His divine presence. Under His guidance none of you need become discouraged.?{PC 3.6}
I am sure that you will find Brother Ballenger a great help to your Board.?He visits many places, and his influence will work for the upbuilding of the two Southern California sanitariums.?{PC 3.7}
The strength of the combination of workers in the Glendale Sanitarium depends on their souls being imbued with heavenly love. Christ clothed His divinity with humanity that human beings might lay hold upon His merits, and that they might recognize obedience to God’s law as the virtue of the covenant of grace.?{PC 4.1}
Worldly policy plans are not to be woven into the pattern that the Lord’s people have been given. To those who receive Him, Christ gives power to become the sons of God, even to as many as believe on His name. God declares, “I will put My laws in their minds.” David’s prayer expresses this same precious assurance:“Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the Lord. Blessed are they that keep His testimonies, and that seek Him with the whole heart. They also do no iniquity, they walk in His way. Thou hast commanded me to keep Thy precepts diligently. Then shall I not be ashamed, when I have respect unto all Thy commandments. I will praise Thee with uprightness of heart, when I shall have learned Thy righteous judgments. Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? By taking heed thereto according to Thy word. With my whole heart have I sought Thee; O, let me not wander from Thy commandments.”?{PC 4.2}
Here is our strength. The Lord will just as surely lead the workers in the Glendale Sanitarium, as He led David, if they will unite to do His will.?{PC 4.3}
There is a great work to be done in bringing the principles of health reform to the notice of the people. Public meetings should be held to introduce the subject, and schools should be held in which those who are interested can be told more particularly about our health foods and how a wholesome, nourishing, appetizing diet can be provided without the use of meat, tea, or coffee.?{PC 4.4}
Thus we did in the early history of our work. We taught the people by demonstration that we can safely depend for the sustenance of life upon the productions which God gave our first parents in Eden.?{PC 4.5}
Let men engage in this work who can speak on the principles of health reform. You need not feel that you must depend upon Dr. Kellogg or upon any other man from afar. No, no. At the dedication of the Glendale Sanitarium, let your most intelligent speakers on the subject of health reform come to the front. And remember that God would have the workers in the two Southern California Sanitariums lean wholly upon His wisdom.?{PC 4.6}
Make as much as possible of the dedicatory services to arouse an interest in health reform. Press home the temperance question with all the force of the Holy Spirit’s unction. Show the need of total abstinence from all intoxicating liquor. Show the terrible harm that is wrought in the human system by the use of tobacco and alcohol. Explain your methods of giving treatment. Let the talks given be such as will enlighten your hearers. God has mercy on the unrighteous. This service will be an opportunity to tell what health reform really is.?{PC 4.7}
Such services will give the Sanitarium a publicity that will be a great?help to it in its work. We must study Christ’s methods. He accepted invitations to feasts given by wealthy men. He went to these feasts because He knew that there He would have opportunity to present the truth. We must study how to reach the masses with the truth for this time. As we strive to do this, God will bring to the minds of those not of our faith convictions that can not be turned aside with a joke. They will be convinced that we have the truth.?{PC 4.8}
Tell them of the principles that we hold, and of why we have established the Sanitarium,—that, under the guidance of God, it may be a help in relieving suffering humanity. Tell them that medical missionary work is to prepare people for the mansions that Christ has gone to prepare for those who are true and loyal to His commandments. Let it be understood that the love of God alone can keep His people true in the self-denial and self-sacrifice that they are called to endure for Christ’s sake. Repeat often the first three verses of the fourteenth chapter of John. This scripture is a panacea for trouble, disappointment, and affliction. A conviction that the hope of eternal life is sure causes the heart to overflow with gratitude and thanksgiving. -?{PC 5.1}
1906年1月3日
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