教会证言-卷一-第58章
第58章 对于穷人的本分
教会证言-卷一-第58章
Chap.58 - Duty to the Poor
教会证言-卷一-第58章
常有人问说,我们对于那些持守第三天使信息的穷人有何本分?我们大家也是久已急欲知道,对于那些守安息日之贫苦家庭,应当怎样谨慎处理才好。直到1861年8月3日,在纽约州的罗斯福,我蒙指示一些关于应付穷人的事。{1T 272.1}[1]
教会证言-卷一-第58章
Inquiries are often made in regard to our duty to the poor who embrace the third message; and we ourselves have long been anxious to know how to manage with discretion the cases of poor families who embrace the Sabbath. But while at Roosevelt, New York, August 3, 1861, I was shown some things in regard to the poor.{1T 272.1}[1]
教会证言-卷一-第58章
上帝并未要求我们的弟兄去负起每一个信仰本会信息之贫苦家庭的责任,若他们要那样行,教会的经济就要枯竭,传道人便必须停止开拓新工了。许多人的贫穷是因其本身缺乏殷勤,节俭,及不知如何善用其钱财所致。果真要帮助这等人,那就等于害他们。有些人老是贫穷,若常予以最优的救济,他们的情形仍是不能改善。他们不会好好地盘算,所能得的钱财,不论是多是少,都要完全用光。有些人不知克己,不善理财,及为清偿债务而未雨绸缪。如果教会要帮助这等人,不让他们去自食其力,至终他们就要受害,因为他们徒知仰赖教会,想望得教会的帮助,而不知在光景好的时日,实行克己经济。他们若不能每次都得到教会的帮助,撒但就试探他们,使他们变成嫉妒猜疑的人,对于会中的弟兄们非常敏感,深恐他们对自己没有尽其一切本分。这种错误是在他们自己的身上。他们是受欺骗了。他们并不能算是在主里面的穷人。{1T 272.2}[2]
教会证言-卷一-第58章
God does not require our brethren to take charge of every poor family that shall embrace this message. If they should do this, the ministers must cease to enter new fields, for the funds would be exhausted. Many are poor from their own lack of diligence and economy; they know not how to use means aright. If they should be helped, it would hurt them. Some will always be poor. If they should have the very best advantages, their cases would not be helped. They have not good calculation and would use all the means they could obtain, were it much or little. Some know nothing of denying self and economizing to keep out of debt and to get a little ahead for a time of need. If the church should help such individuals instead of leaving them to rely upon their own resources, it would injure them in the end, for they look to the church and expect to receive help from them and do not practice self-denial and economy when they are well provided for. And if they do not receive help every time, Satan tempts them, and they become jealous and very conscientious for their brethren, fearing they will fail to do all their duty to them. The mistake is on their own part. They are deceived. They are not the Lord's poor.{1T 272.2}[2]
教会证言-卷一-第58章
圣经上所给我们的教训,并不是要我们帮助前面所提的那一等穷人,乃是要我们帮助那些不幸而遭难受苦的人。上帝本其美意使一些遭难受苦的人来试验及证明别的人。教会中有寡妇及残废的人,乃是证明一种给予教会的福气。他们也是上帝所选用的方法之一,来培养一般自命为基督徒者的真品格,并要他们发挥那在我们慈悲救赎主身上所表现的宝贵品性。{1T 273.1}[3]
教会证言-卷一-第58章
The instructions given in the word of God in regard to helping the poor do not touch such cases, but are for the unfortunate and afflicted. God in His providence has afflicted individuals to test and prove others. Widows and invalids are in the church to prove a blessing to the church. They are a part of the means which God has chosen to develop the true character of Christ's professed followers and to call into exercise the precious traits of character manifested by our compassionate Redeemer.{1T 273.1}[3]
教会证言-卷一-第58章
许多人在过单身生活之时,已经是很清苦了,在明知自己无力养家之时,偏要成家立室。还有更较此难堪者,就是他们不知齐家理室之道。他们全家的情形,都是显着一片散漫懈怠的恶习性。他们丝毫不知自治,尽是纵情任性,不忍耐,暴躁易怒。到了这等人接受信息之后,他们却觉得自己应当受那些较为富足的弟兄们之济助;如果他们的期望没有兑现,他们就埋怨教会,声斥他们没有照着信仰去生活为人。象这种情形,谁该受苦呢?难道要为照应这些穷苦的大家庭,使上帝教会的元气被吮尽,各地的财库因而枯竭么?不是的。受苦的应当是那些家庭中的夫妇们,因为一般而论,他们在接受了安息日的道理之后,他们所受的穷苦,并不比他们以前所受的更多。{1T 273.2}[4]
教会证言-卷一-第58章
Many who can but barely live when they are single, choose to marry and raise a family when they know they have nothing with which to support them. And worse than this, they have no family government. Their whole course in their family is marked with their loose, slack habits. They have but little control over themselves, and are passionate, impatient, and fretful. When such embrace the message, they feel that they are entitled to assistance from their more wealthy brethren; and if their expectations are not met, they complain of the church and accuse them of not living out their faith. Who must be the sufferers in this case? Must the cause of God be sapped, and the treasury in different places exhausted, to take care of these large families of poor? No. The parents must be the sufferers. They will not, as a general thing, suffer any greater lack after they embrace the Sabbath than they did before. {1T 273.2}[4]
教会证言-卷一-第58章
现今在一般穷人的身上,有一种不良的现象,他们若不胜过这种情形,就必趋于灭亡。他们接受真理之时,还是有粗野不文的恶习性,并要经过相当的时期之后,他们才能看明自己的粗野性情,是与基督的品性不合。他们看到别的人更文雅更整齐,便说他们是骄傲,你还可听到他们说“真理要使我们大家一律平等”的话。他们这样以为真理会使相信的人降格,这完全是错了。其实真理是要使人高尚,修炼人的品味,圣化人的判断力。人若照着真理生活,真理就必不住地修正他,使他配加入上帝圣城中圣天使的社会。真理的作用,就是要把我们大家提高,升到高等的水准上。{1T 274.1}[5]
教会证言-卷一-第58章
There is an evil among some of the poor which will certainly prove their ruin unless they overcome it. They have embraced the truth with their coarse, rough, uncultivated habits, and it takes some time for them to see and realize their coarseness, and that it is not in accordance with the character of Christ. They look upon others who are more orderly and refined as being proud, and you may hear them say: "The truth brings us all down upon a level." But it is an entire mistake to think that the truth brings the receiver down. It brings him up, refines his taste, sanctifies his judgment, and, if lived out, is continually fitting him for the society of holy angels in the City of God. The truth is designed to bring us all up upon a level.{1T 274.1}[5]
教会证言-卷一-第58章
在应付穷苦弟兄的事上,那多有能力的人应当时常去尽一种高尚的慷慨的本分,也当给他们良好的劝导,然后让他们去与生活奋斗。我蒙指示,教会应尽一番最严重的本分,特别照应那些困苦的孤儿,寡妇及残废的人们。{1T 274.2}[6]
教会证言-卷一-第58章
The more able should ever act a noble, generous part in their deal with their poorer brethren, and should also give them good advice, and then leave them to fight life's battles through. But I was shown that a most solemn duty rests upon the church to have an especial care for the destitute widows, orphans, and invalids. {1T 274.2}[6]
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