Oh, to think of heaven without Christ! It is the same thing as thinking of hell. Heaven without Christ! It is day without the sun, existing without life, feasting without food, seeing without light. It involves a contradiction in terms. Heaven without Christ! Absurd. It is the sea without water, the earth without its fields, the heavens without their stars. There cannot be a heaven without Christ. He is the sum total of bliss, the fountain from which heaven flows, the element of which heaven is composed. Christ is heaven and heaven is Christ.

C.H. Spurgeon

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Eggs		Brunch, Amish, Cakes	12	Servings

INGREDIENTS

1	c	Uncooked 1 min quick oatmeal
1 1/2	c	Boiling water
1 1/2	c	Flour
1/2	ts	Baking soda
1/2	ts	Cinnamon
1/2	ts	Nutmeg
1/2	ts	Salt
1/2	c	Butter; softened
1	ts	Vanilla extract
1	c	Brown sugar
1	c	Granulated sugar
2		Eggs

INSTRUCTIONS

Place the oats in a small bowl and pour the boiling water over them. Let
stand for 20 minutes. Preheat the oven to 350 F. Sift together the flour,
baking soda, cinnamon, nutmeg, and salt on wax paper. Set aside. In a large
mixing bowl, beat the butter until creamy. Add the vanilla and gradually
add the sugars, beating until fluffy. Beat the eggs into the mixture one at
a time. Add the oatmeal mixture and blend. Add the flour mixture and blend
again. Pour the batter into an oiled 13 x 8-inch pan. Bake for 35 minutes,
or until the top of the cake springs back when touched with fingertip.
Often frosted with Broiled Frosting.
>From Cooking from Quilt country by Marcia Adams.
Posted to recipelu-digest Volume 01 Number 666 by RecipeLu
<[email protected]> on Feb 01, 1998

A Message from our Provider:

“Our hopelessness and our helplessness are no barrier to (God’s) work. Indeed our utter incapacity is often the prop He delights to use for His next act… We are facing one of the principles of Yahweh’s modus operandi. When His people are without strength, without resources, without hope, without human gimmicks – then He loves to stretch forth His hand from heaven. Once we see where God often begins we will understand how we may be encouraged. #Ralph Davis”