Why does today's Christian find the reading of great books always beyond him? Certainly intellectual powers do not wane from one generation to another. We are as smart as our fathers, and any thought they could entertain we can entertain if we are sufficiently interested to make the effort. The major cause of the decline in the quality of current Christian literature is not intellectual but spiritual. To enjoy a great religious book requires a degree of consecration to God and detachment from the world that few modern Christians have. The early Christian Fathers, the Mystics, the Puritans, are not hard to understand, but they inhabit the highlands where the air is crisp and rarefied, and none but the God-enamored can come.

A.W. Tozer

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Eggs		Brownies, Chocolate	12	Servings

INGREDIENTS

1/2	c	Butter — melted
1	c	Sugar
1	ts	Vanilla
2		Eggs
1/2	c	Flour
1/3	c	Cocoa
1/4	ts	Baking powder
1/4	ts	Salt

INSTRUCTIONS

Mix butter, sugar, vanilla, and eggs.  Then add flour, cocoa, baking
powder, and salt. Put in greased 9 inch pan. Bake at 350F for 20-25 min.
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From Gemini's MASSIVE MealMaster collection at www.synapse.com/~gemini

A Message from our Provider:

“An active faith can give thanks for a promise, though it be not as yet performed, knowing that God’s bonds are as good as ready money. #Matthew Henry”

I was weeping in the most bitter contrition of my heart, when I heard the voice of children from a neighboring house chanting, “Take up and read; take up and read.” I could not remember ever having heard the like, so checking the torrent of my tears, I arose, interpreting it to be no other than a command from God to open the book and read the first chapter I should find. Eagerly then I returned to the place where I had laid the volume of the apostle. I seized, opened, and in silence read that section on which my eyes first fell: “Not in revelry and drunkenness, not in licentiousness and lewdness, not is strife and envy; but put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to fulfill its lusts.” No further would I read, nor did I need to. For instantly at the end of this sentence, it seemed as if a light of serenity infused into my heart and all the darkness of doubt vanished away.

Augustine