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前言
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Foreword
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【怀爱伦为城市乡村的最早呼吁】
城市与乡村都是上帝葡萄园的一部分，必须进行工作，不可忽略。撒但企图介入，令工人们灰心丧胆，阻止他们在通都大邑中，象在偏僻的小地方一样，传扬光明和警告的信息。他竭力使众人离开上帝的真理，迁就虚谎。天上的使者奉命来与上帝所指派的使者合作。传道人必须象他们永活的元首基督那样鼓起信心和希望。他们必须在上帝面前保持谦卑痛悔的心。要坚定不移地相信上帝的应许。——《文稿》1874年第1号（参《教会证言》卷七34,35页){MTC 5.1}[1]
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【Ellen White’s Earliest Appeal for Cities and Villages】
The cities and villages constitute a part of [God’s] vineyard. These must be worked, and not passed by. Satan will try to interpose himself, so as to discourage the workers, and prevent them from giving the message of light and warning in the more important as well as in the more secluded places. Desperate efforts will be made to turn the people from the truth of God to falsehood. Angels of heaven are commissioned to work with the efforts of God’s appointed messengers. The preachers of the truth must encourage faith and hope, as did Christ, your living head. Keep humble and contrite in heart before God. Maintain an unwavering faith in the promises of God.—Manuscript 1, 1874?(similar to Testimonies For The Church 7:34, 35).{MTC 5.1}[1]
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【序言】
《诗篇》第48篇常被视为城市居民的《诗篇》第23篇。主“在我们上帝的城中该受大赞美”（第1节）。上帝在城中才使那城居高华美，“大君王的城，……为全地所喜悦”（2节）。上帝竟能如此认同地上的一座城，这应该使我们留心通过上帝的眼光看到今日各城的潜力。{MTC 9.1}[2]
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Psalm 48?is often viewed as the city dweller’s twenty-third psalm. The Lord is “greatly to be praised in the city of our God” (verse 1, NKJV). It is God’s presence in the city that makes it beautiful in its loftiness, “the joy of the whole earth, ... the city of the great King” (verse 2, NKJV). That God could so identify with an earthly city should alert us to see the potential of the cities of today through God’s eyes.{MTC 9.1}[2]
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可是城市却常常列阵反对上帝。这种城市在写作圣经的时代居于统治地位。耶稣、摩西、大卫、但以理和多数圣经先知都不得不与城市打交道。其中有些城很大。尼尼微是“极大的城，有三日的路程”（拿3:3），“其中不能分辨左手右手的有十二万多人”（拿4:11）。巴比伦的城墙约有16公里，里面有主要的人口和巨大的建筑，包括古代世界七大奇迹之一。新约时代以弗所城的主要干线，著名的阿卡迪亚娜大道沿路都有路灯。罗马、亚历山大港、安提阿、雅典、哥林多、苏萨和底比斯都是圣经时代的大城市。{MTC 9.2}[3]
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Cities, though, have often been arrayed against God. Such cities were dominant when the Bible was written. Jesus, Moses, David, Daniel, and most of the other Bible prophets had to deal with cities, some of which were huge for that day. Nineveh was “an exceedingly great city, a three-day journey in extent” (Jonah 3:3, NKJV), having “more than one hundred and twenty thousand persons” (Jonah 4:11, NKJV). Babylon had about 10 miles (16 kilometers) of walls surrounding a major populace and monumental buildings that included one of the seven wonders of the ancient world. New Testament Ephesus had street lighting along its main artery, the famed Arcadiane. Rome, Alexandria, Antioch, Athens, Corinth, Susa, and Thebes were among the great cities of Bible times.{MTC 9.2}[3]
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保罗是基督教向罗马帝国各主要城市宣教的首要传道士。彼得、腓利、亚波罗和其他基督教领袖也曾在各城传道。那些习惯性认为城市是邪恶之地的人应该记住，约翰在异象中看到上帝最终的意图是要人类住在一座无比荣耀和喜乐的城里。{MTC 9.3}[4]
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Paul was Christianity’s premier evangelist to the major cities of the Roman Empire. Peter, Philip, Apollos, and other Christian leaders evangelized the cities as well. Those accustomed to thinking of cities as places of evil should remember that in vision John saw God’s ultimate intentions for humanity as a city of incomparable glory and joy.{MTC 9.3}[4]
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耶稣在地上行走时，曾“走遍各城各乡，”施教、传道、医治人。祂对众人深感同情：“祂看见许多的人，就怜悯他们；因为他们……如同羊没有牧人一般”（太9:35,36）。当今世界的大部分人口都住在城市里。难道耶稣对他们的关怀会不及祂对两千年前城市居民的关怀吗？怪不得怀爱伦得到那么多关于城市的勉言，以装备教会进行全面的城市布道事工。然而她关于城市工作的指示却不及她为乡间地区所发的呼吁那么广为人知。1946年简要编辑的《乡村生活》使那些呼吁得到了应有的注意。这本《城市布道》作为《乡村生活》的补充，是要帮助读者明白上帝为城市布道事工制定的计划。本书在怀爱伦著作托管委员会的办公室编制，不仅摘自怀爱伦的文章、书籍和小册，还取材于她的信函和文稿。本书虽非怀爱伦关于城市工作勉言的详尽汇编，却是这方面内容的精选，信息量很大，涵盖了怀爱伦就教会及其向世界各城布道所得到的许多方面的指示。为帮助读者理解，本书中注明了年代。信函和文稿的年代指写作年代，其它资料的年代指初次发表的年代。所引用的《教会证言》1-5卷，指早期以小册的形式发表的证言。{MTC 9.4}[5]
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When Jesus walked the earth, He “went about all the cities and villages,” teaching, preaching, and healing. The crowds moved Him deeply: “When He saw the multitudes, He was moved with compassion for them, because they were ... like sheep having no shepherd” (Matthew 9:35, 36, NKJV). Today most of the world’s population lives in cities. Does Jesus care for them any less than He did for those in the cities 2,000 years ago? It is no wonder that Ellen G. White was given so much counsel on the city to equip the church for comprehensive urban evangelism and ministry. Yet her instruction on city work is less well known than her appeals for locating in more ruralsettings. The brief compilationCountry Living?(1946) has brought well-deserved attention to those appeals. As a complement to that collection, the current volume,Ministry to the Cities,is designed to help readers understand God’s plan for doing ministry in the city. Prepared in the offices of the Ellen G. White Estate, it draws not only from the articles, books, and pamphlets of Ellen G. White, but also from her letters and manuscripts. It is not an exhaustive compilation of her counsel on the cities, but as a representative collection it is highly informative. It covers many areas of instruction Ellen White received for the church and its outreach to the world’s cities. To aid the reader, years are given for the statements included in this volume. For letters and manuscripts, the year indicates the time of writing; for other sources, it is the time of first publication in the stated form. Citations to Testimonies for the Church, volumes 1-5, reflect the year of their earlier publication as?Testimony?pamphlets.{MTC 9.4}[5]
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自从怀爱伦写下她最后的勉言以来，已经过去一百来年了。在有些方面我们今日所面对的状况与她面对的状况有所不同。读者应记得在为现今的工作制定计划时，须考虑时间、地点和其它因素。环境虽或有了改变，处置的方法也可能有所不同，但这些勉言背后的原则却仍是一样。这些原则应该指示和引导我们努力对付今日的挑战。{MTC 10.1}[6]
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Many decades have passed since Ellen White wrote the last of her counsels. In some respects the conditions that we face today differ from those she addressed. The reader should remember that time, location, and other factors must be considered in laying plans for today’s work. Conditions may change, the methods for dealing with them may vary, but the principles behind the counsels remain the same. These principles should inform and guide our efforts in meeting today’s challenges.{MTC 10.1}[6]
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基督复临的时候既然临近，怀爱伦的话就显出了新的重要性：“城市的工作现在是很重要的。当我们按照上帝的指示为城市工作时，就会形成一个我们从来没有见过的强大的运动”(《医疗布道论》304)。我们盼望并祈愿这本《城市布道》能帮助读者更加努力地实行我们所领受的劝勉，更加有效地向城市传扬基督的末日信息。{MTC 10.2}[7]
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As Christ’s second coming approaches, Ellen White’s words take on new urgency: “The work in the cities is the essential work for this time. When the cities are worked as God would have them, the result will be the setting in operation of a mighty movement such as we have not yet witnessed” (Medical Ministry, 304). It is our hope and prayer that Ministry to the Cities?may help readers become more committed to implementing the counsels we have received and more effective in reaching the cities with Christ’s last-day message.{MTC 10.2}[7]
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怀爱伦著作托管委员会2012年于马里兰州银泉市[8]
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—The Trustees of the Ellen G. White Estate Silver Spring, Maryland[8]
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