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!

In 1557, while exiled in Geneva, Switzerland, a then unknown clergyman, John Calvin, assisted by a handful of Englishmen, who had fled the persecution of Bloody Mary, undertook to translate the complete Bible into English.

However, Calvin and his associates did more than just mere translation. Their Bibles were so accurate, that they struck terror in the hearts of kings and their servants in the church, and has since precipitated one religious war after another.

Even to this day, virtually all mainstream churches and religions carefully sidestep the thousands of marginal notes of Calvin’s Bible.

Their first edition, printed in 1560, contained thousands of marginal notes. Why? Because words and phrases quite often had several meanings, all important state or royal decrees, treaties, and agreements contained marginal explanations or commentaries in order to remove all doubt from the mind of the reader.

Each succeeding edition contained more notes than the previous one, reaching saturation in the 1599 edition.

Calvin’s Bible, out of print since 1644, was the Bible of choice for Oliver Cromwell, John Milton, and the pilgrims who landed at Plymouth Rock in 1620. William Shakespeare quoted Calvin’s Bible more than 5,000 times in his plays.

From 1560 to 1644, Calvin’s Geneva Bible went through 200 printings. It was finally replaced by the King James version because the state needed a Bible that was more compliant to it’s own agenda.

King James I of England was a devout believer in the ‘divine’ rights of kings, a philosophy ingrained in him by his mother Mary Stuart (Bloody Mary).

Among his many other faults, he preferred young boys rather then adult women. His activities in that regard have been recorded in numerous books and public records; so much so that there is no room for debate on the subject.

James enjoyed killing animals. He called it ‘hunting’. Once he killed an animal, he would literally roll about in it’s blood. Some historians claim that he practiced beastiality while the animal lay dying.

James was a sadist as well as a sodomite. He enjoyed torturing people. While King of Scotland in 1591, he personally supervised the torture of poor wretches caught up in the witch-hunt trials of Scotland. James would even suggest new tortures to his henchmen.

Eventually, in 1625, James was run out of England and succeeded by his son, Charles I.

Knowing who King James was and what he was all about, we can easily discern his motives.

James ascended the English throne in 1603. He wasted no time in odering a new edition of the Bible in order to deny the common people the marginal notes, and thus the REAL meaning of many Bible accounts. King James wanted a Bible that was more suitable as a tool for population control.

King James declared the Calvin’s Geneva Bible ’seditious’ and made it’s possesion a felony. The same people who cling to the defiled King James Bible would be the first ones to throw such a deviant out of their congregation.

Even those Bibles that are not King James versions are lacking these all important marginal notes.

The King James Bible was, and is for all practical purposes, a government publication!

Millions of individuals who are serous about research and truth have waited a lifetime to own a Calvin’s Bible.

After a great deal of trouble and intimidation, one small publisher has finally dared to print a limited number of copies for the first time in over 400 years.

Even though they aren’t cheap, they are still going fast.

The complete hardcover reproduction of Calvin’s Geneva Bible weighs over 6 lbs., and your investment will range from $144 for the leatherette hardcover…to $435 for the deluxe strapped leather rembrandt hardcover family heirloom edition.

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The Calvin Bible is a critical, yet almost completely forgotten part of the Protestant Reformation.

Driven out of England by the persecutions of Bloody Mary, several future leaders of the Reformation went to Geneva to create a pure and accurate translation of the Holy Writ.

Concerned about the influence that the Catholic Church had on the existing translations of the Bible from the Latin, these men turned to the original Hebrew and Greek texts to produce the Calvin Bible.

This made the Calvin Bible the first complete Bible to be translated into English from the original Hebrew and Greek texts.

The creation of Calvin’s Geneva Bible was a substantial undertaking. Its authors spent over two years, working diligently day and night by candlelight, to finish the translation and the commentaries.

The entire project was funded by the exiled English congregation in Geneva, making the translation a work supported by the people and not by an authoritarian church or monarch.

All the marginal commentaries were finished by 1599, making the 1599 edition of Calvin’s Geneva Bible the most complete study aide for Biblical scholars and students.

This editon does contain the Apocrypha. The Apocrypha’s notes are minimal or absent in other editions.

Additional highlights of this edition include maps of the Exodus route and Joshua’s distribution of land, a name and subject index, and Psalms sung by the English congregation in Geneva.

The greatest distinction of Calvin’s Geneva Bible, however, is the extensive collection of marginal notes that it contains. Prominent Reformation leaders such as John Calvin, John Knox, Miles Coverdale, William Whittingham, Theodore Beza, and Anthony Gilby wrote the majority of these notes in order to explain and interpret the scriptures.

The notes comprise nearly 300,000 words, or nearly one-third the length of the Bible itself, and they are justifiably considered the most complete source of Protestant religious thought available.

Owing to the marginal notes and the superior quality of the translation, the Geneva Bible became the most widely read and influential English Bible of the 16th and 17th centuries.

It was continually printed from 1560 to 1644 in over 200 different editions.

It was the Bible of choice for many of the greatest writers, thinkers, and historical figures of the Reformation era.

William Shakespeare’s plays and the writings of John Milton and John Bunyan were clearly influenced by the Geneva Bible. Oliver Cromwell issued a pamphlet containing excerpts from the Geneva Bible to his troops during the English Civil War.

When the Pilgrims set sail on the Mayflower they took with them exclusively the Geneva Bible.

The marginal notes of the Geneva Bible enraged the Catholic Church, since the notes deemed the act of confession to men – the Catholic Bishops – as unjustified by Holy Script.

Man should confess to God only; man’s private life is man’s private life. The notes also infuriated King James, since they allowed disobedience to
tyrannical kings.

King James went so far as to make ownership of the Geneva Bible a felony. He then proceeded to make his own version of the Bible, but without the marginal notes that had so disturbed him.

Consequently, during King James’s reign, and into the reign of Charles I, the Geneva Bible was gradually replaced by the King James Bible.

Bibles printed in the 1500’s were works of art. The printing press was only a century old when the Reformers began developing the Geneva Bible. The typesetting on each page was an awesome task in itself. When the printer finished the job of printing the Bible, he would sell the copy in unbound signatures to a buyer. The binder would then inquire as to the type of cover preferred, designed the cover, and bound it to the Bible.

This practice made most Geneva Bibles unique.

In the tradition of the original Geneva Bible we are offering the classic. We sought to reproduce a Bible with a genuine authentic look. To accomplish this we used an oil-tanned latigo leather cover and an over-sewing technique designed to durably bind a Bible.

Because of the print size, this (unaltered) facsimile reproduction is more difficult for some readers. A magnifying glass is often necessary for the marginal notes. On some of the printing the marginal notes are not entirely clear.

Also, some adjustment is required to get accustomed to the interchanged I and J, u and v, and f and s in the old print style.

We are very proud to offer the Geneva Bible to believers serious about understanding the Bible.

A wealth of information that has been left to us by the Leaders of the Protestant Reformation is now available after four centuries of being out of print.

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