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Our self-abnegation is thus not for our own sake but for the sake of others. And thus it is not to mere self-denial that Christ calls us but specifically to self-sacrifice, not to unselfing ourselves but to unselfishing ourselves. Self-denial for its own sake is in its very nature ascetic, monkish. It concentrates our whole attention on self—self-knowledge, self-control - and can therefore eventuate in nothing other than the very apotheosis of selfishness. At best it succeeds only in subjecting the outer self to the inner self or the lower self to the higher self, and only the more surely falls into the slough of self-seeking, that it partially conceals the selfishness of its goal by refining its ideal of self and excluding its grosser and more outward elements. Self-denial, then, drives to the cloister, narrows and contracts the soul, murders within us all innocent desires, dries up all the springs of sympathy, and nurses and coddles our self-importance until we grow so great in our own esteem as to be careless of the trials and sufferings, the joys and aspirations, the strivings and failures and successes of our fellow-men. Self-denial, thus understood, will make us cold, hard, unsympathetic—proud, arrogant, self-esteeming—fanatical, overbearing, cruel. It may make monks and Stoics, it cannot make Christians.

B.B. Warfield

We Love God!

God: "I looked for someone to take a stand for me, and stand in the gap" (Ezekiel 22:30)

Low-fat Cream Cheese Tube Cake

January 29, 2023

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Dairy, Eggs	Chicago	Cakes, Low-fat	12	Servings

INGREDIENTS

2 1/4	c	Cake flour
2	t	Baking powder
1/2	t	Baking soda
8	oz	Nonfat cream cheese, softened
1/2	c	Corn-oil margarine, softened
1 1/4	c	Sugar
2/3	c	Liquid egg substitute
2		Egg whites
1/2	c	Buttermilk
1	t	Vanilla extract
1	t	Lemon rind, grated
2	T	Rum OR brandy OR cognac
1	T	Confectioners' sugar

INSTRUCTIONS

Heat oven to 325 degrees. Coat 10-inch tube or bundt pan with
non-stick vegetable spray; set aside. Sift flour, baking powder and
baking soda together; set aside. Beat cream cheese and margarine with
an electric mixer in large bowl until well blended. Add sugar and  beat
until light, 2 minutes. Beat in egg substitute, egg whites,
buttermilk, vanilla, lemon zest and liquor; mix well. Add flour
mixture and beat until just blended. Turn batter into prepared pan.
Bake until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean, 75 to 80
minutes. Cool in pan 5 minutes before turning out onto rack to finish
cooling. Dust with confectioners' sugar while still warm.  Per serving:
260 calories, 8 g fat, 4 mg cholesterol, 395 mg sodium,  38 g
carbohydrates, 7 g protein  Source: Chicago Tribune, November 6, 1996
Posted to MM-Recipes Digest  V3 #307  Date: Sat, 9 Nov 1996 20:04:47
+0000  From: Linda Place <placel@worldnet.att.net>

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