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

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Grains			1	Servings

INGREDIENTS

1/2	c	Salad oil
1/2	c	Flour
1	lg	Onion; chopped
2		Cloves garlic; (up TO 3)
1	cn	(16 oz) of tomatoes
1/2	lb	Okra
		Oil for frying okra
2	qt	Hot water
3 1/2	ts	Salt
3/4	ts	Red pepper
1		Bay leaf
1/4	ts	Thyme
8		Allspice berries; (up TO 10)
		Few grains of chili pepper
2	lb	Shrimp; peeled and deveined
1	lb	Lump crab meaat
1	pt	Oysters
1/2	c	Chopped green onion
1/2	c	Chopped parsley

INSTRUCTIONS

2. My cousin, Cindy Dawson, gets the credit for this one (which I will be
having Saturday). Nothing better on a cold night.
First you make a roux - very dark - in a large heavy pot. Add onions and
garlic. Cook slowly until onions are transparent. Add tomatoes and cook on
low heat until oil rises to the top (appx. 30 minutes), stirring
frequently. In separate skillet, fry okra in oil on moderately high heat,
stirring constantly until okra is no longer stringy. Add okra to other
mixture, stir and simmer about 10 minutes. Add water, salt and pepper.
Simmer partially covered for 45 minutes. Add other seasoning and simmer
additional 20 minutes. Add shrimp, simmer 15 minutes. Add crabmeat, simmer
15 minutes. Add oysters during last 5 minutes of cooking. Taste for
seasoning. Remove from fire and add green onions and parsley. Serve over
hot rice. Serves 8 - 10.
Potatoe Salad goes great with this!
Posted to recipelu-digest Volume 01 Number 424 by Cooca2 <Cooca2@aol.com>
on Dec 31, 1997

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