1912年8月13日
片断
亲爱的克雷斯弟兄:
你过去实行的健康改良太为偏激,不利于你的健康。有一次你病很重的时候,主给我一道救你性命的信息。你太过严格地约束某些饮食。当我为你祷告之时,有话临到我,要你行在正确的道路上。信息提到要你采用一些更富营养的饮食。肉食不足取。主指示你当吃什么食物。你顺从这指示,得了康复,至今仍与我们同在。{PC 7.6}
我常常想起主给你的指示。我蒙主指示许多宝贵的信息,要给患病受苦的人。为此我很是感激,并赞美主。{PC 7.7}
怀爱伦(签名)
城市的工作
我一直在恳求主加负担给守望者们。区会会长们和教会长老们必须作工。要将工人们两个两个地派到未开工的各城。谁也无权独自开展工作。{PC 8.1}
我奉命重述过去赐下的警告——不要靠大炫耀来推进纽约和其它地区的工作。过去已在纽约的工作中犯了错误,那些错误给工作烙上了错误的印记(提到的是E.E.弗兰克在1901-1903年的工作),并在那些目睹精彩演出的人心中留下了一种错误的印象。许多光阴就这样浪费了,对于我们的工作和我们所相信的真理造成了许多虚假印象。{PC 8.2}
August 13,’12-5
Fragments
Dear Brother Kress,
In the past you have practised health reform too rigorously for your own good. Once, when you were very sick, the Lord gave me a message to save your life. You have been too strenuous in restricting your diet to certain articles of food. While I was praying for you, words were given me for you to set you in the right path. The message was sent that you were to allow yourself a more generous diet. The use of flesh meat was not advised. Directions were given as to the food to be taken. You followed directions given, rallied, and are still with us.?{PC 7.6}
I often think of the instruction then given you. I have been given so many precious messages to bear to the sick and the afflicted. For this I am grateful, and I praise the Lord.?{PC 7.7}
(signed)Ellen G. White Work in the Cities I have been pleading with the Lord to roll the burden on the watchmen. Presidents of Conferences and church elders must work. Two and two laborers are to be sent forth into the unworked cities. No man is to be authorized to carry the work alone.?{PC 8.1}
I am charged to repeat the warnings given in the past,—that it is not by making a great display that the work in New York and other places is to be carried forward. In the past mistakes have been made in the work in New York, mistakes which placed an erroneous stamp on the work, and left a wrong impression on the minds of those who witnessed the wonderful performance. Much time has thus been lost, and many false impressions made, regarding our work and the truth we believe. -?{PC 8.2}