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第36章 发行印刷品
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Chapter 36—Circulating the Printed Page
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(关于发行印刷品的这些勉言,列在对受训的文布道士的第一次呼召中。)
1875年9月12日,也就是纽约州罗姆帐篷大会的第一天,有好几位传道人向留心倾听的大批听众讲道。那天夜里我梦见一位气宇非凡的青年在我讲道以后立即来到我的房间说:{LS 216.1}[1]
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[These words of counsel regarding the circulation of literature were among the first calling for trained colporteur-evangelists.]
Several speakers had addressed large and attentive congregations at the camp meeting at Rome, N. Y., on first day, Sept. 12, 1875. The following night I dreamed that a young man of noble appearance came into the room where I was, immediately after I had been speaking. He said:{LS 216.1}[1]
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你们已经使众人注意到一些重要的题目;这在许多人听来,是新奇的,一些人对此深感兴趣。讲道的人已经尽力将真理传开了。但如果不作进一步的努力加深这些人心中的印象,你们的工作效果可能就会丧失殆尽。撒但有许多迷人的东西来转移人的思想。今生的思虑和钱财的迷惑会一起把播在心中的真理种子挤住。{LS 216.2}[2]|“You have called the attention of the people to important subjects, which, to a large number, are strange and new. To some they are intensely interesting. The laborers in word and doctrine have done what they could in presenting the truth. But unless there is a more thorough effort made to fasten these impressions upon minds, your efforts will prove nearly fruitless. Satan has many attractions ready to divert the mind; and the cares of this life and the deceitfulness of riches all combine to choke the seed of truth sown in the heart.?{LS 216.2}[2]
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你们现在所作的每一努力若配合推销合适的读物,就会产生更好的效果。有关现代真理要道的小册子应当免费分发给凡愿意接受的人。你们务要在各水边撒种.{LS 216.3}[3]|“In every effort such as you are now making, much more good would result from your labors if you had appropriate reading matter ready for circulation. Tracts upon the important points of truth for the present time should be handed out freely to all who will accept them. You are to sow beside all waters.?{LS 216.3}[3]
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印刷品是一种有力的工具,能打动人的心思意念。世人利用了印刷品,千方百计把有毒的读物提供给人阅读。受世俗和撒但精神感染的人,尚且如此热心地推销败坏人的书刊读物,你们岂不更应当热心将那些能提高人拯救人的读物提供给人吗?{LS 216.4}[4]|“The press is a powerful means to move the minds and hearts of the people. The men of this world seize the press, and make the most of every opportunity to get poisonous literature before the people. If men, under the influence of the spirit of the world and of Satan, are earnest to circulate books, tracts,?and papers of a corrupting nature, you should be more earnest to get reading matter of an elevating and saving character before the people.{LS 216.4}[4]
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上帝已经让祂的子民可以利用印刷品,结合其他的工具来成功地推广真理的知识。要根据形势需要,把小册子,报刊和书籍散发在所有城市乡村。这是人人都可以参加的布道工作。{LS 217.1}[5]|“God has placed at the command of His people advantages in the press, which, combined with other agencies, will be successful in extending the knowledge of the truth. Tracts, papers, and books, as the case demands, should be circulated in all the cities and villages in the land. Here is missionary work for all.?{LS 217.1}[5]
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应当训练人从事这一方面的工作,一面传道,一面推销书刊。他们应有良好的风度,不讨人厌,也不嫌弃别人。在必要时,人们可以将全部光阴和精力用在这个工作上。上帝已经将大光交托祂的子民。这不是单给他们私自享受的,而应让它照耀其他处在错谬黑暗中的人。{LS 217.2}[6]|“There should be men trained for this branch of the work who will be missionaries, and will circulate publications. They should be men of good address, who will not repulse others or be repulsed. This is a work which would warrant men to give their whole time and energies as the occasion demands. God has committed to His people great light. This is not for them to selfishly enjoy alone, but to let its rays shine forth to others who are in the darkness of error.?{LS 217.2}[6]
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你们这个团体,在传播真理知识的事上还没有尽到应尽努力的二十分之一。一个积极的传道人若能配合推销刊物和小册子,就能取得比单单讲道而不用印刷品更大的效果。印刷品乃是一种有力的工具。上帝命定它与传道人的积极工作配合,把真理传给各国各族各方各民。许多人用其他方法是无法接近的。{LS 217.3}[7]|“You are not as a people doing one twentieth part of what might be done in spreading the knowledge of the truth. Very much more can be accomplished by the living preacher with the circulation of papers and tracts than by the preaching of the word alone without the publications. The press is a powerful instrumentality which God has ordained to be combined with the energies of the living preacher to bring the truth before all nations, kindreds, tongues, and peoples. Many minds can be reached in no other way.?{LS 217.3}[7]
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这就是投入人力财力能取得最好收获的真正布道工作。过去你们太胆小了,不敢冒险,要凭信心前进,在各水边撒种。你们没有抓住机会并充分利用。太怕冒险。真信心不是僭越自持,而是勇敢进取。要不失时机地出版宝贵的亮光和有能力的真理。{LS 217.4}[8]
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“Here is true missionary work in which labor and means can be invested with the best results. There has been too great fear of running risks, and moving out by faith, and sowing beside all waters. Opportunities have been presented which have not?been grasped and made the most of. There has been too great fear of venturing. True faith is not presumption, but it ventures much. Precious light and powerful truth need to be brought out in publications without delay.”{LS 217.4}[8]
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他又说:“你的丈夫在勉励别人参与圣工并担负重任的努力上不可灰心。凡为上帝所悦纳的人,撒但一定要攻击的。如果他们终于断绝了与上天的联络,并危害到圣工,他们的失败决不会归咎于你或你的丈夫,却要归咎于那些发怨言之人的乖僻性情,这种性情是他们不愿了解也不愿克服的。上帝设法用这些人做圣工,他们却失败了,以致给那些无私的忠实分子增添了很重的负担。他们所造成的妨碍和使人灰心的影响,足以抵消他们过去所有的一切善行而有余。虽然如此,但这不应拦阻上帝的旨意,就是要将这正在发展的工作及其一切忧劳的重担,分成各个部门,交给应该尽本分的人,要他们在应该负起工作时就忠心地出力去肩负。这些人必须乐意受教,这样上帝才能给他们相当的资格,使他们成圣,并赐给他们圣洁的判断力,使他们可以奉祂的名推进他们所担负的圣工。”{LS 218.1}[9]
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Said he: “Your husband must not be discouraged in his efforts to encourage men to become workers, and responsible for important work. Every man whom God will accept, Satan will attack. If they disconnect from heaven, and imperil the cause, their failures will not be set to his account or to yours, but to the perversity of the nature of the murmuring ones, which they would not understand and overcome. These men whom God has tried to use to do His work, and who have failed, and brought great burdens upon those who were unselfish and true, have hindered and discouraged more than all the good they have done. And yet this should not hinder the purpose of God in having this growing work, with its burden of cares, divided into different branches, and laid upon men who should do their part, and lift the burdens when they ought to be lifted. These men must be willing to be instructed, and then God can fit them and sanctify them, and impart to them sanctified judgment, that what they undertake they may carry forward in His name.”{LS 218.1}[9]
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