时时求告上帝

教导人们时时心念上帝的小册子

英文翻译

Large couplet right: Call on God at all times

Large couplet left: Daily study and examine the Bible

Between couplet, above: Studying the Bible is the secret to raising a healthy, strong and clean progressive church

Loving the law of the Lord, thinking on it night and day, this person is blessed. He is like a tree planted by a stream of water, at the right time it bears fruit, and its leaves never whither, everything he does is successful. Psalm 1:2-3

(1) As Mengzi said, The world is drowning, rescue it with the Way. This is not an incorrect saying, and is able to save the world. This is what the High Lord has said in the Bble. We can use these words to save the state. Is this really true or not? This is a question we should investigate into. Carefully consider the church,

(2) so that it might move the world. It [saving the world] is all through believers working with power from above. Believers can receive power, which is completely based on prayer and Bible study. Surveying Chinese believers now, the majority cannot read the Bible [lit. “holy book”]. Since they cannot read the Bible, how are they able to be empowered people? If people are weak throughout their whole lives, how are they able to have power that can save the nation?

(3) Examining the book, The Influence of Christinaity in China, you can know the church. Nationwide there are 345,834 members. Among those, there are 217,151 men, and 128,702 women. Comparing the men and the women, there are 88,440 fewer women. We do well to ask about these 88,000 women,

(4) what are they like? Are the not the wives of believers, giving power to the church? Morality must first begin in the families of believers. The morality of believing families grows out of family worship. If women cannot read, then the benefit of family worship is lost, so promote the phonetic alphabet committee, which has been set up for this reason. If among the believers there is a wife who cannot read, you can buy her a Phonetic New Testament to use for family worship. Not long after, the entire family will be able to read, and they will avoid being weak believers. This kind of family will truly be able to realize the Lord Jesus Christ’s words, to be a light to the world, a city on a hill that cannot be hidden. If every person can earnestly pursue a good family, we will become a unified nation. Mengzi’s words accord with this. The pictures featured here

(5) are like this. They are all pictures of people who have studied the phonetic alphabet. Above are pictures of a 78 year hold man and a small girl, and a 70 or 80 year old man and woman with their family. They can all very likely read and write. Before they

(6) were totally illiterate. Now they are a literate family, able to keep accounts. When they listen to a sermon they are able to write down the meaning of the message. When traveling they are able to record monuments and sites of historical interest. Isn’t this a change from a fool to a wise person? Everyone can

(7) be like this; every family can be like this; the entire nation can be like this. Isn’t this what Mengzi said, the whole world can be rescued with the Way? From this can’t we see that the effect of the phonetic alphabet is incomparably great?

Captions of the pictures:
Upper right: Shanxi (province), Xiaoyi county, phonetic alphabet class
Upper left: Henan (province), Fugou county, phonetic alphabet class
Middle: Zhili (Hebei province), Huolu (county), famine victims phonetic alphabet class
Middle right: Shanxi (province), Zhaocheng county, 8 year old child returns home and teaches his 70+ year old grandmother the phonetic alphabet
Middle left: Henan (province), Xu state, 67 year old grandmother teaches the phonetic alphabet to the children and grandchildren of her family

Image in the middle:
(right) 128,702 women of the church
(left) 217,151 men of the church

Lower right picture caption: Yantai women’s phonetic alphabet class
Lower left picture caption: Yantai grandfather’s and children’s phonetic alphabet class

Simplified Transcription

大对联友:时时求告上帝

大对联左:天天考察圣经

在对联中间上:查经祈祷是养成健强清洁进步教会的秘诀

在对联中间下:喜爱耶和华的律法,日夜思想,这人便为有福。他要像一棵树栽在溪水旁,按时候结果子,叶子也不枯干,凡他所作的,尽都顺利。 诗篇第一章二节三节

(一)孟子所说,天下溺,授之以道。这个话实在是不错。能救天下的道。就是上帝在圣经上说的话。我们用这些来救国。到底对不对呢。这乃是应当研究的一个大问题。细想教

(二)会所以能感动了世界。全是借着信徒有从上面来的能力工作咯。信徒能得着能力。是全凭祈祷查经。现在调查中国信徒。过半数不能读圣书。既不能读圣书。如何能作有力量的人。自己一生软弱的人。怎能会有救国的大能力呢。

(三)查考《基督教在中国的势力》书就可知道教会。合共有三十四万五千八百五十三个教友。内中有二十一万七千一百五十一个男子。其余十二万八千七百零二个女子。以男女的数目相交。女子少八万八千四白四十九。试问所少的。这八万八千多女子。是

(四)些什么人呢。难道不是信徒的妻女么。要使教会有能力。必先使各信徒的家庭中有道德。信徒家庭的道德。是从家庭礼拜发生出来。倘若女子不识字。就失掉家庭礼拜的益处。所以提倡注音字母委员会。就因这个缘故而设。如信徒中有妻女不识字的。可为他买一本“注音字母新约”在家庭礼拜用。不多时必能使全家识字。就可免做软弱的信徒。这样的家庭。正是应验主耶稣基督的话。是世上的光。是城造在山上不能隐藏的。若能人人尽是好家庭。这样成为一国。孟子所说的话。就很为符合咯。这书图上的人

(五)像。都是学过注音字母人的小照。上面有七八岁的男女小孩子。也有七八十岁的男女老人家。他们多半能读也能写。以前目不

(六)识丁的人。现在能写家信。能记账目。听道时能录演讲的意思。游历时能记古迹和路程。这不是改变愚人为智者么。人人能如

(七)此。家家能如此。举国能如此。这不是孟子说。天下溺援之以道么。由此看来。注音字母的功效。岂不是绝大无比的么。

照片说明文字
上右:山西孝义县学注音字母班
上左:河南扶沟县学注音字母班
中:直隶获鹿逃荒饥民孩子学注音字母班
中右:山西赵城县八岁幼生归家教七十多岁老太太学注音字母
中左:河南许州六十七岁老太太教家中孩子及孙子注音字母
中图:(右)十二万八千七百零二女教友
(左)二十一万七千一百五十一男教友
下右:烟台妇女学注音字母班
下左:烟台老公及孩童学注音字母班

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