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Our self-abnegation is thus not for our own sake but for the sake of others. And thus it is not to mere self-denial that Christ calls us but specifically to self-sacrifice, not to unselfing ourselves but to unselfishing ourselves. Self-denial for its own sake is in its very nature ascetic, monkish. It concentrates our whole attention on self—self-knowledge, self-control - and can therefore eventuate in nothing other than the very apotheosis of selfishness. At best it succeeds only in subjecting the outer self to the inner self or the lower self to the higher self, and only the more surely falls into the slough of self-seeking, that it partially conceals the selfishness of its goal by refining its ideal of self and excluding its grosser and more outward elements. Self-denial, then, drives to the cloister, narrows and contracts the soul, murders within us all innocent desires, dries up all the springs of sympathy, and nurses and coddles our self-importance until we grow so great in our own esteem as to be careless of the trials and sufferings, the joys and aspirations, the strivings and failures and successes of our fellow-men. Self-denial, thus understood, will make us cold, hard, unsympathetic—proud, arrogant, self-esteeming—fanatical, overbearing, cruel. It may make monks and Stoics, it cannot make Christians.
B.B. Warfield

    • The Cocoanut Grove’s California Figs Romanoff

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    Dairy California 1 Servings

    INGREDIENTS

    1 Dozen ripe figs; cut in quarters
    Curacao to taste
    1 qt Vanilla ice cream; very soft
    1 pt Whipped cream
    1 ds Nutmeg

    INSTRUCTIONS

    Place figs in a serving bowl. Add a slight flavoring of curacao to taste.
In another bowl, thoroughly mix vanilla ice cream with well-sweetened
whipped cream. Pour over figs. Sprinkle with nutmeg and refrigerate. Serve
very cold.
Yield: Serves 6
NOTE: Strawberries can be substituted, but omit nutmeg.
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