Name: Tomato Hodge-Podge
Ingredients: 2 qt Green tomatoes; 2 qt Green peppers; 2 qt Onions; 1 c Salt; 2 c Mustard seed; 1 qt White or cider vinegar

[Our flesh] indicates that the essential way in which people are rebelling against God is that they are assuming that, like Him, they can make the decisions necessary for enjoying a fulfilled and happy future. The folly of this rebellion is that people think that they love themselves more, are wiser, and thus better able than the all-loving, omniscient, omnipotent God to provide for themselves the fulfillment they crave. Thus conversion, according to Jesus, reverses the act of the Fall and makes a declaration, not of independence from God, but dependence on Him.

Daniel Fuller

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Grains		Relishes	1	Servings

INGREDIENTS

2	qt	Green tomatoes
2	qt	Green peppers
2	qt	Onions
1	c	Salt
2	c	Mustard seed
1	qt	White or cider vinegar

INSTRUCTIONS

Cut all vegetables finely and mix together well. Add salt and mustard seed
and mix again. Place mixture in large, clean bowl or stone crock with
cover. Pour vinegar over mixture and cover. Keep refrigerated or in cool
place until flavors develop. Serve with meats.
From The Housekeeper's Assistant, Composed Upon Temperance Principles
(Boston; 1845). Reprinted in The Tomato in America (University of South
Carolina Press; $ 24.95).
Posted to MM-Recipes Digest V3 #274
Date: Sun, 6 Oct 1996 14:37:36 +0000
From: Linda Place <placel@worldnet.att.net>

A Message from our Provider:

“It’s not how you start, it’s how you finish that counts”

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