SOUTHERN LIVING USA

Spoke they, come it shall, with great force and might;
Awaiting, expecting, yet no one can it be said;
Knew what would happen, when it arrives during the night.

By the thousands, even millions, so many, they did flee;
While I could do nothing but watch in utter amazement;
As they sat gridlocked, in thoughts, of the horrors to be.

By the score, plus more, in flames returned they above;
Maybe, a contributing cause, their life air, without escape;
A reason, the souls were welcomed back, by GOD of Love.

Mighty winds roared, white waves crested, palms bent and waved;
Yet, it was 80, brave among our mankind, sworn to serve;
Entered the mouth of the Gulf, for one simple soul to be saved.

Through the thrashings, the lashings, the bricks, they did lie;
Resting heavily upon the now abandoned historical streets;
A note on the screen spoke, “Pray For Texas”, that she not die.

Rage at heart and fury in her eye, seeing me not, with sight untrained;
She came, just East, at a knot, a change in her destructive journey;
Seeing and believing, I give thanks I AM, for guiding Rita, the hurricane.

Often called southern gospel or country gospel to distinguish it from black gospel, white gospel music has followed a different trajectory during the past eighty years.

Some of its roots are found in the publishing work and “normal schools” of Aldine S. Kieffer and Ephraim Ruebush. It was promoted by traveling singing school teachers, southern gospel quartets, and shape note music publishing companies such as the A. J. Showalter Company (1879), the James D. Vaughan Publishing Company and the Stamps-Baxter Music and Printing Company.

Southern gospel also drew much of its creative energy from the Holiness churches that arose throughout the south in the first decades of the twentieth century and that created new music, in addition to the traditional hymns of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, to accompany their new forms of worship.

Some early country gospel artists, such as The Carter Family, achieved wide popularity through their recordings and radio performances in the 1920s and 1930s. Others, such as Homer Rodeheaver, George Beverly Shea or Cliff Barrows, became well-known through their association with traveling evangelists such as Billy Sunday or Billy Graham.

The city of Hartford, Arkansas, was for a time known as an oasis of Gospel publishing, being home to the Hartford Music Company, which employed the talents of Albert E. Brumley (composer of “I’ll Fly Away”) and E.M. Bartlett (composer of “Victory in Jesus”).

Among the best known southern gospel performers are The Blackwood Brothers, the Jordanaires and the Oak Ridge Boys. As in the case of black gospel, the churchgoing audience for white gospel music has not always forgiven its stars, such as the Oak Ridge Boys, who have crossed over to pop music. Other traditional groups, such as The Imperials, helped lead the development of Contemporary Christian Music.

Today, one of the largest collections, and best source of southern gospel music available to online searchers can be found at GEMM.COM. This impressive site features southern gospel music almost from it’s inception to today’s greatest sounds and praises in LP, Cassette, Video, and CD formats. You can use the GEMM Search Box to the right, or you can click on the link in this article.

Be you black, white or whatever, music itself is blind, and does not discriminate. Truely, southern gospel, as well as all music should be appreciated by everyone…according to personal preferences, regardless of what others may say, think, or feel.

Let the music move you; follow your heart and ears…rather than the crowd!

Auto and car tune-ups are one of the most grossly overpriced scams going today. If your auto or car is a late 80s model or above, you really only need a simple periodic maintenance tune-up. Otherwise, you’re wasting money paying for old-fashioned “complete tune-up.”

You see, before the late 80’s, vehicles needed complete tune-ups as often as every 6,000 miles. There weren’t many vehicles that could be driven more than 12,000 miles before noticeable performance deterioration.

So, over the years, motorists became conditioned to the idea of 6 month or annual tune-ups, that is, new points, plugs, condenser, ignition timing adjustment, new air and fuel filters, carburator adjustment, and sometimes the replacement of distributor cap and rotor.

Well back in the 70’s, manufacturers stopped making vehicles with points and condensers. Then in the 80’s, munufacturers started producing vehicles with computerized electronic ignitions, followed by computerized distributorless ignition systems.

So what’s left to tune? Vehicles built since the early 80’s can not be tuned up in the traditional sense. As a matter of fact, if you look in your engine compartment, you’ll see a label clearly advising you that no tune-up service is required. You will also find the same advisory in your owner’s manuals…which few people read.

If people would read this information in the engine compartments and owner’s manuals, they’d see that the only routine ignition “tune-up” work needed is spark plug and air filter replacement every 30,000 miles or so. This is called a basic maintenance tune-up.

Folks in the auto and car repair industry are not anxious to educate motorists about these facts. However, if you read the fine print of tune-up advertisements, you’ll notice they say “replace spark plugs, check all wires, check all emission hoses, check timing, check this, check that; check…, check…, check.” Lots of checking, but no real work.

There is no carburator to adjust, and fuel injection systems are largely nonadjustable. So all you really need is a basic maintenance tune-up which should be done according to the schedule in your owner’s manual, usually every 30,000 miles, not anually. If you’re making the mistake of getting so-called 6-month or annual tune-ups on a computer-controlled fuel-injected engine, you’re spending a lot of money for some new spark plugs and maybe a couple of new filters.

However, this doesn’t mean that your vehicle will not require periodic ignition-system or fuel-system work. If your vehicle doesn’t run properly, a basic maintenance tune-up probably will not correct the problem. Your vehicle will need computerized diagnosis of the engine management systems.

Many shops still mistakenly call this kind of work tune-up service, even though it involves much more than a tune-up and costs a lot more.

As a general rule, you shouldn’t pay for basic maintenance tune-up unless your vehicle calls for one according to the maintenance schedule in your owner’s manual. If your vehicle is not running properly, and it’s not scheduled for a maintenance tune-up, ask for diagnosis of the engine management systems. Sure, this costs more than a tune-up, but you’ll save the money you would have spent for unnecessary tune-up work.

A complete engine diagnosis can reveal a variety of problems responsible for a poorly running engine.

Bottom line here is to only pay for what you really need.

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