It is God's word that does convert, quicken, comfort, and build up, or, on the other side, wound and beat down. What is the reason that there was so great an alteration made by the ministry of Christ and His disciples, by the apostles and others after them, indeed, by Luther, and other ministers of reformed churches? They did not preach traditions of elders like the scribes; nor men's inventions like the Roman Catholics do. They preached the pure word of God. The more purely God's word is preached, the more deeply it pierces and the more kindly it works.

William Gouge

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
		Soups, Lunches, Appetizers	50	Fl oz

INGREDIENTS

1		Onion
1		Clove garlic
1 1/2	lb	Parsnips
2	pt	Stock (broth)
1		Lemon
		Salt and black pepper
1/4	ts	Garam masala
		Chopped fresh parsley

INSTRUCTIONS

TO SERVE
CONVERSIONS: 1/2 lb = 8 oz = 225 g = 1 large parsnip
:            1 pt = 20 fl oz = 550 ml = 2 1/2 cups
NOTES: This soup is quite lemony. Can reduce lemon flavour by leaving out
the lemon rind or just using less of it.
ONION  -   Peel and chop finely GARLIC - Peel and slice. Sprinkle with
plenty of salt and use
:          flat edge of large knife to grind into the salt and
:          make a paste. PARSNIPS - Chop finely, either in processor or by
hand. LEMON - Firstly, finely grate off the rind. Then either
:          microwave on HIGH for 20-30 seconds until hot, or
:          drop into a pan of boiling water and leave (off the
:          heat) for 1 minute. Now cut in half and squeeze the
:          juice into a cup. Discard the pips.
Posted to fatfree digest V96 #267
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 1996 16:03:57 +0000
From: "Kate Pugh" <katherine.sheppard@corpus-christi.oxford.ac.uk>

A Message from our Provider:

“You’re never too old for God”

That hundreds have missed their way, and stumbled against a pulpit is sorrowfully evident from the fruitless ministries and decaying churches which surround us. It is a fearful calamity to a man to miss his calling, and to the church upon whom he imposes himself his mistake involves an affliction of the most grievous kind…(if anyone) could be content to be a newspaper editor, or a grocer, or a farmer, or a doctor, or a lawyer, or a senator, or a king, in the name of heaven and earth let him go his way; he is not the man in whom dwells the Spirit of God in its fullness, for a man so filled with God would utterly weary of any pursuit but that for which his inmost soul pants. If on the other hand, you can say that for all the wealth of both the Indies you could not and dare not espouse any other calling so as to be put aside from preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ, then, depend upon it, if other things be equally satisfactory, you have the signs of this apostleship. We must feel that woe is unto us if we preach not the gospel; the Word of God must be unto us as fire in our bones, otherwise, if we undertake the ministry, we shall be unhappy in it, shall be unable to bear the self-denials incident to it, and shall be of little service to those among whom we minister.

C.H. Spurgeon