Name: Fruit Cake
Ingredients: 2 c Light brown suger; 1 1/2 c Chopped dates; 1/4 c Molasses; 12 oz Butter or margarine, (1 1/2 sticks); 1 1/2 c Hot water; 2 Eggs, beaten; 1 c Nuts, chopped; 1 Jar (10 oz.) maraschino cherries, sliced; 2 1/2 c Flour; 1 ts Baking powder; 1 ts Baking soda; 1 ts Cinnamon; 1/2 ts Nutmeg; 1 ts Salt

In response to two excuses why people do not evangelize: A Christian who has heard biblical preaching, participated in Bible studies, and has read the Scriptures and Christian literature for any time at all should have at least enough understanding of the basic message of Christianity to share it with someone else. Surely if we have understood the gospel well enough ourselves to be converted, we should know it well enough (even if as yet we know nothing else about the faith) to tell someone else how to be converted… Do we really want to say that we are too busy to fulfill the Great Commission of Jesus Christ to make disciples of unbelievers (Matthew 28:19-20)? Do we expect that at the Judgment Jesus will excuse us from the single most important responsibility He gave to us because we say, “I didn’t have time”?

Donald S. Whitney

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Eggs, Grains	Indian	Cakes, Christmas, Seasonal	12	Servings

INGREDIENTS

2	c	Light brown suger
1 1/2	c	Chopped dates
1/4	c	Molasses
12	oz	Butter or margarine, (1 1/2 sticks)
1 1/2	c	Hot water
2		Eggs, beaten
1	c	Nuts, chopped
1		Jar (10 oz.) maraschino cherries, sliced
2 1/2	c	Flour
1	ts	Baking powder
1	ts	Baking soda
1	ts	Cinnamon
1/2	ts	Nutmeg
1	ts	Salt

INSTRUCTIONS

Raisins may be substituted for some or all of the dates.
Place first group of ingredients in a pan and boil 3 mins; set aside to
cool. When cool add second batch of ingredients stirring after each
addition.
Sift togather remaining ingredients and add to the fruit mixture a little
at a time stirring well after each addition.
Place in greased and floured pans. Bake at 275 degress for 2 1/2 hours or
till done.
Bake in bundt or tube cake pan, or 2 or more loaf pans.
NOTES : This is the cake for those who don't like fruit cake!
Posted to EAT-L Digest 21 Dec 96
Recipe by: (Adapted from) MOUNTAIN-RECIPES@rmgate.pop.indiana.edu
From:    Bill Hatcher <bhatcher@GC.NET>
Date:    Sun, 22 Dec 1996 11:09:57 -0500

A Message from our Provider:

“Life’s most exciting adventure: intimacy with God”

If God would grant us the vision, the word “sacrifice” would disappear from our lips and thoughts; we would hate the things that seem now so dear to us; our lives would suddenly be too short; we would despise time-robbing distractions and charge the enemy with all our energies in the name of Christ. May God help us to judge ourselves by the eternities that separate the Aucas from a comprehension of Christmas, and Him, who, though He was rich, yet for our sakes became poor so that we might, through His poverty, be made rich. Lord God, speak to my own heart and give me to know Thy holy will and the joy of walking in it. Amen.

Nate Saint