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APPLAUSE And I want to start today by saying how grateful I am to all of you, to everyone who poured your hearts and your hopes into this campaign, who drove for miles and lined the streets waving homemade signs, who scrimped and saved to raise money, who knocked on doors and made calls, who talked, sometimes argued with your friends and neighbors...

感谢所有将心血和希望都倾注于这次竞选当中来的人们；感谢那些不远千里开着车跟着我跑的人们，在街道两旁排成队挥舞着自己做的牌子；感谢那些剩下所有的钱为我捐款的人们；还有那些登门拜访，打电话，在谈话中为我宣传的人们，可能有时候还会和你们的朋友和邻居发生争执。

And see no end to the landscape,new objects presenting themselves as we advan ce;so,in the commencement of life,we set no bounds to our inclinations.nor to the unrestricted opportunities of grastifying them.we have as yet found no obs tacle,no disposition to flag;and it seems that we can go on so forever.we look round in a new world,full of life,and motion,and ceaseless progress;and feel in ourselves all the vigour and spirit to keep pace with it,and do not foresee from any present symptoms how we shall be left behind in the natural course o f things,decline into old age,and drop into the grave.it is the simplicity,and as it were abstractedness of our feelings in youth,thatidentifie s us with nature ,and(our experience being slight and our passions strong)delu des us into a belief of being immortal like it.our short-lives connexion with existence we fondly flatter ourselves,is an indissoluble and lasting union-a h oneymoon that knows neither coldness,jar,nor separation.as infants smile and s leep,we are rocked in the cradle of our wayward fancies,and lulled into securi ty by the roar of the universe around us0we quaff the cup of life with eager h aste without draining it,instead of which it only overflows the more-objects p ress around us,filling the mind with their magnitude and with the strong of de sires that wait upon them,so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.

此时，但觉好风光应接不暇，而且，前程更有美不胜收的新鲜景致。在这生活的开端，我们听任自己的志趣驰骋，放手给它们一切满足的机会。到此为止，我们还没有碰上过什么障碍，也没有感觉到什么疲惫，因此觉得还可以一直这样向前走去，直到永远。我们看到四周一派新天地——生机盎然，变动不居，日新月异；我们觉得自己活力充盈，精神饱满，可与宇宙并驾齐驱。而且，眼前也无任何迹象可以证明，在大自然的发展过程中，我们自己也会落伍，衰老，进入坟墓。由于年轻人天真单纯，可以说是茫然无知，因而将自己跟大自然划上等号；并且，由于经验少而感情盛，误以为自己也能和大自然一样永世长存。我们一厢情愿，痴心妄想，竟把自己在世上的暂时栖身，当作千古不变、万事长存的结合，好像没有冷淡、争执、离别的密月。像婴儿带着微笑入睡，我们躺在用自己编织成的摇篮里，让大千世界的万籁之声催哄我们安然入梦；我们急切切，兴冲冲地畅饮生命之杯，怎么也不会饮干，反而好像永远是满满欲溢；森罗万象纷至沓来，各种欲望随之而生，使我们腾不出工夫想死亡。

Their underlying reason for disputing this theory is that, in their studies of human evolution, they have encountered other primates, man's closest, hairiest relatives, who have longer fourth fingers.

他们争执这个理论的潜在理由是在他们对人类演化的研究中，已经遇到过其它的灵长类，人类最密切的，多毛亲戚。而它们的四个手指都更长。

I then reflected, that as God, who was not onlyrighteous but omnipotent, had thought fit thus to punish andafflict me, so He was able to deliver me: that if He did not thinkfit to do so, it was my unquestioned duty to resign myselfabsolutely and entirely to His will; and, on the other hand, it wasmy duty also to hope in Him, pray to Him, and quietly to attend tothe dictates and directions of His daily providence, These thoughts took me up many hours, days, nay, I may say weeksand months: and one particular effect of my cogitations on thisoccasion I cannot omit.

因为，仅仅阅读《圣经》，就能使自己认识到自己的责任，并勇往直前地去担负起这样一个重大的任务：真诚地忏悔自己的罪行，依靠救主耶稣来拯救自己，在实践中改造自己，服从上帝的一切指示；而所有这些认识，都是在没有别人的帮助和教导下获得的（这儿的&别人&，我是指自己的同类--人类），而只要自己阅读《圣经》就能无师自通。而且，这种浅显明白的教导，还能启发这个野人，使他成为我生平所少见的虔诚的基督徒。至于世界上所发生的一切有关宗教的争执、纠缠、斗争和辩论，无论是教义上微细的分别，还是教会行政上的种种计谋，对我们来说，都毫无用处。并且，在我看来，对世界上其他人也毫无用处。我们走向天堂最可靠的指南就是《圣经》--上帝的语言。

The twentieth-century conflict between liberal democracy and Marxist-Leninism is only a fleeting and superficial historical phenomenon compared to the continuing and deeply conflictual relation between Islam and Christianity.

在这场文明冲突中，伊斯兰教将涌现为西方世界的主要挑战，&伊斯兰教与基督教的关系，东正教与西方世界的关系，都将是激烈的，而各个文明之间也互为敌友。20世纪自由民主与马克思列宁主义的冲突，比起持续深远的伊斯兰教和基督教的矛盾争执，仅会是短暂肤浅的历史一瞥。&

What are your goals and strategies for growth?

你的成长目标和策略是什么？

And unto the angel of the church in Sardis write; These things saith he that hath the seven irits of God, and the seven star I know thy works, that thou hast a name that thou livest, and art dead.

3：1 你要写信给撒狄教会的使者，说，那有神的七灵和七星的，说，我知道你的行为，按名你是活的，其实是死的。