If a doctor, able to help, were at the side of a sick person and promised to help him from his trouble and advised him how to combat his ailment or the poison he had taken, and if the sick person knew that the doctor could help him but nonetheless said: Oh, get out, I won’t accept your advice; you are no doctor, but a highwayman; I am not sick, nor have I taken poison; it will not hurt me; and if the sick person wanted to kill the doctor, would you not say that this fellow, who persecuted and wanted to kill his doctor, was not only sick but demented, mad, and irrational as well?... But this spiritual madness – that we do not want to accept help when God’s Son wants to help us – is ten times worse. Should our Lord God not be angry and let hellfire, sulfur, and pitch rain upon such ingrates? For besides being sinners, we are also so wretched as to reject help and chase away and kill those who urge us to accept it.

Martin Luther

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Eggs		pat’s coll, Cookies: fo, out to m/c	1	Servings

INGREDIENTS

1	c	Sugar
1/2	c	Raisins
1	c	Shortening (half butter or margarine)
1 3/4	c	Flour
1	ts	Baking soda
2		Eggs
1/2	ts	Salt
1	ts	Vanilla
1/2	ts	Cinnamon
1	c	Rolled oats

INSTRUCTIONS

Mix sugar, shortening, eggs, and vanilla thoroughly. Blend remaining
ingredients into shortening mixture. Refrigerate dough 4 to 5 hours or
overnight. Heat oven to 375. Roll dough into 1 inch balls and place on an
ungreased cookie sheet. Flatten with greased bottom of glass dipped in
sugar. Bake 10 minutes. Makes about 4-1/2 dozen cookies. (55 cookies; 28
per lb.) NOTE: If using self rising flour, omit soda and salt. Input:
10/29/91
Posted to MC-Recipe Digest V1 #287
Date: 09 Nov 96 08:18:18 EST
From: Pat Minotti <76401.3715@compuserve.com>

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