基督复临安息日会国外布道史略-第34章
19 瑞典和三十年战争
基督复临安息日会国外布道史略-第34章
Sweden and the Thirty Years’ War
基督复临安息日会国外布道史略-第34章
瑞典与它的某些强邻相比,是一个软弱而且显然不重要的国家;但其历史却不乏惊心动魄的大事。在三十年战争期间,当德国与罗马教皇的军队进行可怕斗争的时候,正是从瑞典来了救援。皇帝的军队曾扫荡德国的改正教各州,直到波罗的海沿岸,还想越过海面去征服北方国家,把教皇的领土扩大到那里。基督教界的宗教和自由处在要被踩灭的关头。毁灭工作多年来一直在进展。其它国家观望着,却没有伸手干预。甚至连英国都站在一边。而在德国内部,一些改正教诸侯久已丧失了宗教改革的精神,以致他们只满足于呼吁和抗议,却不给正在如此可怕的劣势下挣扎的弟兄们以援手。{HS 191.5}[1]
基督复临安息日会国外布道史略-第34章
Sweden is a weak and apparently unimportant country, in comparison with some of its powerful neighbors; but its history is not without events of thrilling interest. It was from Sweden that deliverance came to Germany in?her terrible struggle against the papal armies during the thirty years’ war. The imperial forces had swept over the Protestant States of Germany, to the shores of the Baltic Sea, and were looking across its waters to a conquest which should extend the papal dominion over the countries of the North. The religion and the liberty of Christendom were on the point of being trodden out. For years the work of ruin had been going forward. Other nations looked on, but lifted no hand to interpose. Even England stood apart. And in Germany itself, some of the Protestant princes had so far lost the spirit of the Reformation that they contented themselves with appeals and protests, and lent no aid to their brethren struggling against such fearful odds.{HS 191.5}[1]
基督复临安息日会国外布道史略-第34章
那时正是小国瑞典的国王古斯塔夫斯二世前来救援这个受压迫的国家。他所承担的是一个极为艰巨的任务。他必须用很少的财力和很少的军队去对付拥有无穷资源和无数军队的敌人。但他相信自己既然是在从事上帝的事业,上帝就必扶持他,这种信心敦促他前去捍卫改正教。{HS 192.1}[2]
基督复临安息日会国外布道史略-第34章
Then it was that Gustavus II., the king of little Sweden, came to the deliverance of the oppressed nations. It was a herculean task which he had undertaken. With slender means and a small army he must encounter an enemy that possessed exhaustless resources and unnumbered forces. But faith that God, whose cause he was?undertaking, would sustain him, urged him forward to become the defender of Protestantism.{HS 192.1}[2]
基督复临安息日会国外布道史略-第34章
“他象一个临终的人把自己的家安顿好,”并且向各州作了严肃的告别,他再也不会见到他们了。1630年6月24日,他与他那一点部队登上了德国的海岸,恰好距奥格斯堡坦白书呈到查理五世面前那天一百年。费迪南皇帝对古斯塔夫斯的到来表示轻蔑,满不在乎。维也纳骄傲的朝臣们“查考国家年鉴要看看这个小小的哥特国王的国家在哪里。”就连改正教诸侯们也没有在如此卑微的外观下看出他们的拯救者。他们曾希望得到某个强国的帮助,象瑞典这样的小国能给他们带来什么帮助呢?然而主救人不是靠着人多也不是靠着人少。费迪南的军队挡不住古斯塔夫斯的进攻。改正教军队节节胜利。在胜利的最高潮,古斯塔夫斯倒下了;但他的人民既忠于他为之流血的目的,就继续作战,直到赢得了和平,解救全北欧洲脱离了罗马教皇的轭。{HS 193.1}[3]
基督复临安息日会国外布道史略-第34章
“Like a dying man he set his house in order,” and bade a solemn farewell to the States, which he was never to see again. With his little force he landed on the shores of Germany on the 24th of June, 1630, exactly a hundred years from the day when the Augsburg Confession had been presented to Charles V. The emperor Ferdinand heard with contemptuous indifference of the coming of Gustavus. The proud courtiers of Vienna “looked in the State Almanac to see where the country of the little Gothic king was situated.” Even the Protestant princes failed to discern their deliverer in a guise so humble. They had hoped for assistance from some powerful nation, but what help could a petty kingdom like Sweden bring them? But the Lord delivereth neither by few nor by many. The armies of Ferdinand could not stand against the attacks of Gustavus. Victory after victory attended the Protestant arms. In the full tide of success, Gustavus fell; but his people, true to the purpose for which his blood was shed, continued the struggle, until a peace was won which delivered all Northern Europe from the papal yoke.{HS 193.1}[3]
基督复临安息日会国外布道史略-第34章
在斯德哥尔摩古老的瑞达荷尔摩斯教堂,安葬着古斯塔夫斯的尸体。靠近他安息的地方有下述碑铭:“他承担了艰巨的任务;他喜爱虔诚;他征服了仇敌,扩展了国度,高举了瑞典人,拯救了受压迫的人;他在死亡中夸胜。”{HS 193.2}[4]
基督复临安息日会国外布道史略-第34章
In the old Riddarholms church at Stockholm the body of Gustavus is entombed. The following inscription is placed near his resting-place: “He undertook difficult things; he loved piety; he conquered his enemies, extended his kingdom, exalted the Swedes, and delivered the oppressed; and he triumphed in death.”{HS 193.2}[4]
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