Take care never to impute the vain imaginings of your fancy to Him [the Holy Spirit]. I have seen the Spirit of God shamefully dishonored by persons – I hope they were insane – who have said that they have had this and that revealed to them. There has not for some years passed over my head a single week in which I have not been pestered with the revelations of hypocrites or maniacs. Semi-lunatics are very fond of coming with messages from the Lord to me, and it may spare them some trouble if I tell them once for all that I will have none of their stupid messages… Never dream that events are revealed to you by heaven, or you may come to be like those idiots who dare impute their blatant follies to the Holy Ghost. If you feel your tongue itch to talk nonsense, trace it to the devil, not to the Spirit of God. Whatever is to be revealed by the Spirit to any of us is in the Word of God already – He adds nothing to the Bible, and never will. Let persons who have revelations of this, that, and the other, go to bed and wake up in their senses. I only wish they would follow the advice and no longer insult the Holy Ghost by laying their nonsense at His door.

C.H. Spurgeon

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Meats, Grains		Main dish, Chili	6	Servings

INGREDIENTS

2	lg	Onions, chopped
2		Cloves garlic, pressed or minced
1	tb	Salad oil
2	qt	Regular-strength chicken broth
1	lb	Dried black beans, sorted for debris and rinsed
1	tb	Coriander seed
1	ts	Whole allspice
1	ts	Dried oregano leaves
3/4	ts	Crushed dried hot red chilies
6		Cardamom pods, hulls remove (1/4 tsp seed).
2 1/2	lb	Oranges for zest, juice, slices

INSTRUCTIONS

Combine in onions, garlic, and oil in a lidded 6 quart sauce pan, over high
heat.  Stir often until onions are tinged with brown, about 8 minutes. Add
remaining ingredients, but not zest, juice, or slices, to onions, etc., and
bring to a boil over high heat. Reduce heat to simmer. Cover and simmer
until beans are tender to bite, about 1 1/2 to 2 hours.
While beans simmer, remove 2 teaspoons zest, squeeze 1/2 cup juice, remove
peel and white membrane from rest of fruit and slice thinly crosswise,
removing seeds. After the beans become tender, raise heat to high, uncover,
and boil until most of the liquid evaporates, about 10 ~ 15 minutes.
(Reduce the heat and stir occasionally as mixture thickens.) Remove beans
from heat and stir in 1 tsp zest and the 1/2 C juice. Ladle beans into
serving bowls. Place the sliced fruit equally on top of the beans in each
bowl.  Add to taste: sour cream, fresh cilantro sprigs, salt. Garnish with
the remaining 1 tsp zest.

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