C.H. Spurgeon's Evening Devotional
Tuesday April 1, 2025

"It is time to seek the Lord."-Hosea 10:12
    
    This month of April is said to derive its name from the Latin verb aperio, which signifies to open, because all the buds and blossoms are now opening, and we have arrived at the gates of the flowery year. Reader, if you are yet unsaved, may your heart, in accord with the universal awakening of nature, be opened to receive the Lord. Every blossoming flower warns you that it is time to seek the Lord; be not out of tune with nature, but let your heart bud and bloom with holy desires. Do you tell me that the warm blood of youth leaps in your veins? then, I entreat you, give your vigour to the Lord. It was my unspeakable happiness to be called in early youth, and I could fain praise the Lord every day for it. Salvation is priceless, let it come when it may, but oh! an early salvation has a double value in it. Young men and maidens, since you may perish ere you reach your prime, "It is time to seek the Lord." Ye who feel the first signs of decay, quicken your pace: that hollow cough, that hectic flush, are warnings which you must not trifle with; with you it is indeed time to seek the Lord. Did I observe a little grey mingled with your once luxurious tresses? Years are stealing on apace, and death is drawing nearer by hasty marches, let each return of spring arouse you to set your house in order. Dear reader, if you are now advanced in life, let me entreat and implore you to delay no longer. There is a day of grace for you now-be thankful for that, but it is a limited season and grows shorter every time that clock ticks. Here in this silent chamber, on this first night of another month, I speak to you as best I can by paper and ink, and from my inmost soul, as God's servant, I lay before you this warning, "It is time to seek the Lord." Slight not that work, it may be your last call from destruction, the final syllable from the lip of grace.
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Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Bragging about my new pans...




OK so I'm a little behind the times maybe someday I'll get caught up.  Just wanted to thank CSN stores-online for the wonderful opportunity to review their products and blab about it.  I have been wanting a jelly roll pan so CSN stores online provided me with just that.  I received the jelly roll combo pack by Calphalon of their classic bakeware.....


So I started looking for a yummy jelly roll recipe. By the Way there are oodles out there.  However, this one kind of found me.  I had this Taste of Home magazine (June/July 1999) just stare up at me from the library giveaway table.  Low and behold there it was a chocolate roll right on the front cover.  Bingo!  I nabbed the magazine and the rest is history.  It was a winner for my family.

Chocolate Zucchini Roll
(from Taste of Home magazine ~ June/July 1999)
Victoria Zmarzley-Hahn, Northampton, PA


Ingredients:
3 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 cup all-purpose flour
3/4 cup sugar
1/2 cup baking cocoa
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 cup shredded peeled zucchini
Filling:
1 - 8 oz. package cream cheese, softened
1/4 cup butter or margarine, softened
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1 cup confectioners' sugar
Additional confectioners' sugar

In a mixing bowl, beat eggs and vanilla.

 Combine flour, sugar, cocoa, baking soda, cinnamon and salt.
Add to egg mixture and mix well.

Stir in zucchini

Spread into a greased and waxed paper-lined 15-in x 10-in. x 1-in jelly roll pan

Bake at 350 degrees for 15-20 minutes or until cake springs back when lightly touched.  

Turn onto a linen towel dusted with confectioner's sugar.

Peel off waxed paper

 Roll up, jelly-roll style, starting with a short side.

Cool on a wire rack.

In a mixing bowl, beat cream cheese, butter and vanilla until fluffy.

 Beat in confectioner's sugar.

 Unroll cooled cake
Spread filling to within 1-in of edges.

 Roll up again

 Dust with confectioners' sugar

 Refrigerate until serving.
Yield:  10 servings





**Disclaimer:  This jelly roll pan was provided by CSN stores online in place of my honest review of their product.  I was not compensated for anything besides a code to purchase the jelly roll pans for this review.** 

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