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This Article May Surprise You
By William Elbert Munsey, 1833-1877
"How are the dead raised up? and with what
body do they come?" I Cor. 5:35
WE are all standing upon the threshold of an awful future, replete with facts and instinct with entities, about which we know but little. Let but the heart cease its beating, or one vital function of this body cease its office, and we are gone-gone! to grapple with the stern truths of ages, at once interminable, inconceivable, unknown.
" To be or not to be," after death, is answered, and nearly all men, though with different degrees of faith, are looking confidently to an existence beyond the grave.
The idea of immortality has descended down the stream of human generations from the first pair in Paradise, running down every branch from the central tide, disappearing in one, corrupted in another, and becoming more lucid and satisfactory in another, to the present age. It is seen in the language, literature, and manners of every age; in the history, philosophy, and poetry of every people. It is seen in the retributive horrors of Tartarus, the rich fields and streams of Elysium, the Hesperian seas and islets of the Red man, the heaven and hell of the Christians.
But the heathen apply the idea of immortality to the soul only. The ancient heathen complained that the sun went down at night, and arose in the morning, but their friends went down in the gloomy darkness of death, and rose no more. They saw upon the face of every mysterious Providence which swept the earth, in bold and living colors the pencillings of immortality: they felt the truth attested within by an instinctive shrinking back from annihilation, yet the tomb was invested with an eternal darkness, and the body surrendered to a perpetual sleep. With them the night of death was starless: there was no anticipated morning whose auroral splendors would break in upon the darkness of the grave, and hang the rainbow of hope over the dust of the dead.
The idea of the resurrection of the body does not appear to have occurred to them. To what source is the world then indebted for its existence? Not to reason, for the mind has not the requisite data; not to nature, for it is super-nature; not to science, for it is beyond the province of science; but to the Bible. It is the great fact recognized in the text, and is purely a subject of revelation. Let semi-infidel divines seek for the evidences of the resurrection elsewhere; it is only found in the Bible. I Would not exclude those rich illustrations corroborating Bible fact, which pour from every department in philosophic and material existence-no; but I appeal to the Bible, proven as it is to be the Word of God, as the highest evidence of the resurrection of the dead.
Hear with what authority it speaks: "Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise" (Isa. 26:19). "Dead men"! "Dead bodies"! "They shall arise!"-"He that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies, by His spirit that dwelleth in you"(Rom. 8:11). "Many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth, shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to everlasting contempt" (Dan. 12:2) "Asleep"! "Awake"! "The hour is coming, in which all that are in the graves shall hear His voice and come forth" (John 5:28, 29). / Such announcements, my hearers, have kindled a smile upon the brow of bereavement, and a star in the graves of the departed.
This doctrine being peculiar to Christianity and having nothing analogous in nature, has been a favorite object of attack by every school of Infidels since its announcement. It is condemned as false, because it involves a mystery. This argument is of no force unless it is true universally, unless every other thing which involves a mystery is false too. If it is true universally, if every thing which involves a mystery is false, then there is nothing true in the universe. The argument proves too much, therefore is worth nothing.
The objector confounds two things very essentially different; mystery as to fact, and mystery as to a mode. A fact may be plain, while the manner of its production may be mysterious. The doctrine of the resurrection is a doctrine of fact, and as such is clear, but its mode is mysterious. The objector confounds mystery with absurdity. An absurdity is something contradictory in its very nature to human reason and common sense, such as supposing an effect greater than its cause; a mystery is something beyond human comprehension on the account of its magnitude, or the relation it sustains to Infinite Power. The resurrection of the human body is not an absurdity, for it is not contrary to human reason; but a mystery, for it involves the agency of infinite power to accomplish it. A doctrine whose foundation stone is Omnipotence, could not from its nature be subjected to the feeble rules and restrictions of reason.
To deny the truth of the resurrection because its mode is a mystery to us, is to say that a finite mind is equal in discovering and investigating power to all difficulties involved in the existence and nature of any truth, however intimate its relations to the great infinite, either in being or principle.
Another objector says, the resurrection contradicts the great principles of science. No science is perfect: it has been the business of one age to modify and improve the science. of the past age; a future age will but expose the learned follies of this. Science is scarcely out of its swaddling-clothes. Is it entitled to more credence than the Bible? Must this old Book, hoary with the age of centuries, written by the finger of inspiration, born at Sinai, completed amid the splendors of the Apocalypse, whose footprints are seen in the crumbled dust of earth's wrecked and mined greatness, whose teachings are Godlike, whose precepts are thunder-given, whose promises are the hope of the world, fly the stage before the gorgeous diction and sacrilegious pretensions of an ungodly and pseudo-philosophy?
But I could never see any point or relevancy in the objection. In what department of true science are those principles found and taught, conflicting with the doctrine of the resurrection? I appeal to all the tomes in the wide range of scientific lore for an answer-they are nowhere. All science is founded upon the discoveries of sense; and if it teaches such principles, it has exceeded its province, therefore it is no argument. Revelation is the only oracle of our faith, and the proper tribunal before which to refer our theological questions. It is under its potent influence alone that life and immortality become divine realities. To go to science to settle matters of faith, is like going to a dictionary to learn history, or to geology to learn mathematics.
Again, the objector says, it is contrary to our experience. But the great error in the objection is, that the objector assumes that his individual experience is the universal experience of the race. The exact and entire experience of an individual now is unlike in many respects the experience of his contemporaries; how much more is it unlike the experiences of men in different ages of the world, and in different stages of its development. It does not follow because the tawny son of the tropics has never seen the earth whitened with snow, that the Laplander has not seen. it; neither does it follow because we never saw a man raised from the dead, that the Apostles did not see it.
Again, it is urged that the resurrection is contrary to the immutability of the laws of nature. This argument is of no force, for the resurrection is not to be brought about by the regular action of the laws of cause and effect, but by a supernatural power. "Do ye not therefore err," said Christ to the Sadducees, "because ye know not the Scriptures, neither the power of God?" "Why should it be thought incredible with you," says Paul, "that God should raise the dead?" It is a provision of Redemption, hence above nature and nature's laws, yet not contradictory to them, to either nature or its laws. It is a provision of a supernatural plan coming down upon nature, and entering in unity with it; into the unity of God's grand system, embracing the material, immaterial, and moral.
Another objection is, the resurrection of the dead is because this body continually changes its substances, so that the bodies we now have are not the same we had a few years ago, nor will be the same a few years hence -that the bodies in which we have sinned or acted righteously may not be in many instances the same bodies as those which will be actually rewarded and punished. This argument contradicts the infidel's own theory of the seat of personal identity, transferring the ego from the soul, the only true subject of reward and punishment, to the body, which is rewarded and punished simply as the instrument.
Such an argument would liberate in a few years every criminal in the world. Why retain a man in prison longer than the time afforded by this supposition for a perfect and entire change of the substance of his body? Know you not at the expiration of the hypothetical number of seven years that he is immaculate unless he sinned during his imprisonment? that there is not a particle of that guilty body which was incarcerated? Open your state prisons and penitentiaries, and let their hordes out upon society, they are innocent. The same argument would so affect the proceedings of our criminal courts, that judge and jury would have to exercise great care to know how much of the guilty body was arraigned at the bar, if any, in order to mete out the ends of justice.
Such an argument, though popular and common, contradicts common sense, the common consciousness and experience of mankind. Again, it would apply with equal force against the resurrection of Christ. His body, according to this hypothesis, changed several times, at least four times. Yet what body did he bring up? This brings us to the true and Scriptural answer to the objection-the same body he laid down in the grave.
We have an evidence of the resurrection of the human body in the resurrection of Christ. "Since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead." "If Christ rose from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead? But if there be no resurrection of the dead, 'then is not Christ risen." (I Cor. 15:12,13). The resurrection of the race follows naturally from the resurrection of Christ. This is clear from the federal representative nature of Christ. The relations he sustains from his federal representative nature to Adam proves it. If Adam in his representative character brought death into the world by his fall, and died himself, it is reasonable that Christ, in his representative character, should by his life, death, and resurrection bring life into the world. The relation he sustains from his federal representative nature to us proves it. Being our second federal Head, and Heaven-appointed Proto-
type, and that he did take upon himself a human body, and resumed that body after it had lain in the grave, exalted it to heaven, changed and glorified, is powerful evidence that our bodies too shall be raised, changed, and glorified, and dwell with His forever.
Again, if it was necessary for Christ, to complete the plan of salvation, to be raised from the dead, it is also necessary, to complete the execution of the plan, that man also should be raised, and furthermore if he was able to raise himself, he is able to raise others. Such is the argument of Paul, hence he adduces as his principal evidence the fact, that Jesus rose from the dead. His resurrection is the type of ours. Part of our nature is in heaven ; the exaltation of a part argues the exaltation of the whole. The Great Head of the church has gone up, and the body must follow. He is, as the Apostle expresses it, "The first fruits-of them that slept."
The Jews were commanded to cut the first ripening grain in their fields and take it to Jerusalem, and lay it upon the altar as a pledge of the coming harvest and as a thank offering to God. At the end of the harvest they all again met at Jerusalem to celebrate the harvest feast; which they did with sacrifices and thanksgiving for many days. Now Christ the "first fruits" lays upon God's altar in heaven, as a pledge of that glorious harvest at the end of the world, which will leave every old tomb tenantless, and gather us all, soul and body both, redeemed and glorified into heaven.
The scheme of human redemption necessarily embraces the resurrection of the human body. Its provisions extend to the body, as well as to the soul. Hear the Scriptures: "Ye are not your own, but are bought with a price; therefore glorify God with your body and your spirit, which are God's." (I Cor. 6:19, 20). Both body and soul are God's. both bought by the blood of Jesus. Surely a body bought by the blood of Christ, especially when that body has been the sanctified temple of the Holy Ghost, cannot perish forever. "We wait for the adoption, to wit, the 'redemption of the body." (Rom. 8:23). "I am the resurrection and the life," Christ exclaims. No mistaking his meaning, for he is speaking with reference to Lazarus. Peter and John "preached through Jesus the resurrection of the dead." (Acts 4:2). If through Christ, it is embraced in Redemption. "Christ bath abolished death and both brought life and immortality to light through the Gospel" (2 Tim.1:10).
The seat of self-consciousness, or personal identity, is in the soul, yet the body is an integral and essential part of the constitution of man. God doubtlessly designed in the creation of man the blending of the two great elements of His universe, the spiritual and material, into one creature. This is clear from the very facts of the case; the creation of pure spirits, the creation of simple matter, and the creation of the dual nature of man, compounded of both. Man appears to be the central link, uniting the spiritual and material, in the grand chain of life and existence, sweeping from the throne of God down through every rank and order of beings, by regular gradations to the passive sod upon which we walk. This being true, it follows naturally that the body is an as essential part of man's constitution as is his soul-that he would not be man without a body. If this conclusion be true again it follows, if man is redeemed, the plan affecting such work must include the body as well as the soul, or man is but half redeemed, and the plan is but half a plan.
Again, God's whole system, spiritual and material, embracing His government of both, is a unity-a well-balanced, symmetrical, magnificent unity. The creation of a bifold being, possessing in unity in his constitution the two prime elements of God's grand system, appears to be necessary to the unity of the whole. Now such a creature was man, for he is both spiritual and material. Such being his nature, it is presumptive that as a compound, God intended he should be immortal. In fact, such is the teaching of the Scriptures. Now sin entered the world, a foreign element in the Divine system, and being a violation of law, the basis of all order, naturally produced disorganization and death. It naturally destroyed the compound nature of man by separating his soul and body. Man was destroyed; the design of God was thwarted; and His system lost its unity–results not obviated by the salvation of every disembodied soul in heaven.
Such were the effects of sin, and the nature of God, and the nature of things required that it should be expunged out of His entire system. He could have destroyed sin by the destruction of everything which it had effected. He could have hurled His unbalanced system into nihilism. He had the power to do both, and His nature would have justified the action. But He of His own free will and grace chose to establish a redemptive and compensatory dispensation, according to the laws of His system itself, extending its provisions throughout the entire system, and touching with its restoring power everything which sin had touched-restoring man, establishing and perfecting His original designs, and readjusting the disturbed relations of universal being-He chose to establish a redemptive and compensatory dispensation constituting within itself a complete remedy for the evils of sin.
A dispensation countervailing the influences of sin; one which would neutralize its poison and destroy the mephitic exhalations in man's moral atmosphere; one which would track with angel wing and purifying power the paths of its corruption, and extract the cancerous fibres of the deadly phagedena from the system and government of God, and cast it, its author, and children into Topher, and wall it up and arch it over, to rankle in its own corruption in eternal isolation.
Now I ask you, is man restored to his original position as man, is the apparent design of God in man's creation maintained, and the unity of His system restored, if the body, one of the essentials of man's constitution, one of the essentials of God's original design, one of the essentials to the unity of His system, is never to be raised from the dead and united with the soul? No; Christ Must save man in all the elements of which man's is compounded, or His mission is a failure. The objector is driven to the alternative of impeaching the remedial character and perfection of the atonement, or contradicting the Bible and the philosophy of the case, deny that death came by sin. Which choose ye?
Christ himself taught by words and actions that the resurrection of the body was included in the great work of which he was the subject. There was a pleasant little family in the town of Bethany, nearly two miles from Jerusalem, which Jesus loved-two sisters, and one brother-Martha, Mary, and Lazarus. In Jesus' absence Lazarus died, and was buried in a cave, and covered with a stone. Jesus heard of it, and he and his disciples started for the scene of mourning, and arrived at Bethany four days after the burial. Before he entered the town, Martha heard of his coming and went to meet him: "Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died." "Thy brother shall rise again." "I know he shall rise again in the resurrection at the last day," says Martha. "I am the resurrection and the life," says Christ.
Martha runs and tells Mary, for many Jews were, present, "The Master is come and calleth for thee." Mary rose up hastily and ran to meet him, and fell down at his feet: "Lord, if thou hadst been here my brother had not died." Mary wept, the Jews who had followed her wept, and "Jesus wept." "Where have ye laid him?" "Come and see." They went to the cave: "Take ye away the stone," and Jesus prayed: "Father, I thank thee that thou hast heard me; and I knew that thou hearest me always: but because of the people which stand by, I said it, that they may believe that thou hast sent me."
Then Jesus cried with a voice, which one day will pour its trumpet thunders throughout the vast charnel-house of the dead and bid us all live, "Lazarus, come forth,"-and the pulse of immortality began its vibrations in the grave, and the sheeted dead came forth alive. That one dead man arose, is presumptive that all dead men shall be raised; that Jesus raised him from the dead during his redemptive mission on earth, is conclusive that the resurrection is embraced in the work of redemption; and that Death heard and obeyed Him once, argues that he will hear and obey Him again. This conclusion is clear from the fact that when Jesus was completing Redemption's plan the graves were opened, and as he completed it by his resurrection, "many bodies of the saints which slept, arose, and came out of the graves." And as his resurrection was necessary to complete the work of redemption he came to perform, and did complete it; so by a parity of reason our resurrection is necessary to complete the work with reference to us; and will complete it.
Glorious hope!– a remedy as universal as the disease. Our bodies may be dead for centuries. The Erica heather of Scotland, or the cactus of South America, may bloom .over our graves; the chilly mists of the North may sheet our tombstones in eternal ice, or the encroachments of the Southern desert may bury them in sand ; marts of trade may be built over our resting-places, and the busy whirl of the world's commerce may ring over our sleeping dust; the ploughboy may sing his merry song, and dance upon our long-lost graves; corals may incrust our bones in solid rock and rear up continents upon them; or the wings of the tempest may fan our dust all around the world, yet the resurrection trump will find us, and we shall live again.
The inspired penmen so understood it. Acting and living under the influence of this doctrine, they lose all terror of death. Hear how they term it: "Many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake." "Stephen fell asleep." "Them that sleep in Jesus will God bring with him." "We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed." How appropriate! How expressive! for them who sleep shall awake. Death is not annihilation, but simply a change. It is sleep. To the energies of the laboring, sleep is rest and recuperation. Death is rest to the good man from all his toils, where he gathers new vigor for an eternity of action. Pageantries of golden dreams pass before the mind of the sleeper; the beauties of Heaven flash with more beaming splendor before the enraptured vision of the disembodied spirits. The overpowering joys of the better world will so soften the tread of cycles, and deaden the grating thunders of revolving ages, that the resurrection will take the sainted spirit with surprise.
The promised and kingly triumphs of our Lord Jesus Christ are proofs of this doctrine, "He must reign till he hath put all enemies under his feet. The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death." "I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death; 0 death, I will be thy plague: 0 grave, I will be thy destruction." Jesus announced Himself as the Saviour and King of the world. If He is our Saviour, he must save us from sin and its results. Death is the result of sin, and if He delivers us not from its' power, the whole is a failure–He is not our Saviour, the One promised us by the prophets, and the One the necessities of the case demanded.
If he is our King, and His kingdom is to be supreme, universal, and absolute according to promise, He must rule over us, over his enemies, and over ours. Death is His enemy, and our enemy, and if He conquer not it, again the whole is a failure-He is not our King-our preaching is vain and your faith is vain.
Death and the grave are our foes. Death's ghastly and shadowy form rises to Heaven and, throws its awful shadow upon all our hopes. The grave darkly gapes at our feet every step of life's journey. But Christ our federal representative is conqueror. He was taken down from the cross a bloody corpse, and borne off to the grave. Hell exulted. Death waved his black banner in triumph. The light of immortality leaped up in one exhilarating flash, then sank to a waning spark; sighs ran along amid the bones of the patriarchs, and a wail of woe rang in the sepulchers of the dead. Had He never left Death's dreary domain, the grave would have devoured all the race, and retained them. in its horrid jaws forever. The scepter of Death would have been universal, and He King without a rival. No ray of light would ever have broken into the arcana of the lonely tomb to tell of coming day. No welcome voice would ever have rung along its damp and dismal galleries, and pealed in joyful echoes amid its mouldy arches to break the eternal slumber of its sleepers.
The dying Christian might turn his eyes and look out of the window of his chamber upon the sunshine, the old familiar jar landscape skirting his home, and lift his withered arm and point his livid and chilled finger, and say, "Farewell forever." He might gaze with hollow and dimming eye upon the faces of loved ones, fast receding from his vision, standing around his bed, whose recollections are rapidly paling upon his memory, and say, "Farewell forever." He might reach out his cold and trembling hand and grasp the hand of her who has traveled by his side from vigorous youth till both are old and gray,-not as the pledge of a coming union for one now breaking, but to feel its pressure for the last time, and to repeat in sepulchral whispers of saddest woe, "My wife, farewell forever."
But Jesus met Death in Death's own territory, and permitted Himself to be captured, that He might lead captivity captive. He went with the Pale Monarch to the silent darkness of the tomb, but it was to undermine its strongholds, and kindle the star of resurrection in its murky vaults -to cement the past to the future and pledge Omnipotence for a reunion. He plucked the sting from Death, took his keys, broke his crown, chained the monster to his chariot wheels, and mounted aloft to Heaven a Conqueror. My hearers, the keys of the grave are in higher hands.
If there be no resurrection, Christianity is not adapted to all our wants. It fails to meet the aspirations and desires of our constitutional being, therefore has not all the elements necessary to make us happy. And if it is not grounded upon the wants of universal human nature, it is a failure. Can the best of you look upon your death as an eternal sleep? your grave as an eternal resting-place? can you bid without regret the bodies in which you have tabernacled so long an eternal farewell? Can you bid the bodies of your friends an eternal adieu, without the pangs of the keenest sorrow?
Tell the young wife, widowed by this terrible war, as she rushes with disheveled tresses amid the promiscuous ditches of the battlefield, crammed with mutilated dead, that her husband will never rise, and her heart is saddened for life. Tell the sister, as she gazes upon the shattered body and obliterated features of a brother beloved, that that form and face will never be restored to happy recognition again. Tell the mother, who baptized her boy with blessings and sent him to the bloody "front," where he fell and was buried, uncoffined, in some unknown grave, with no block, stone, or vine to mark his resting-place, that he never will come to her arms again.
Tell the bereaved-fathers, mothers, widows, children-that there will be no resurrection, and a universal shriek will rend the air and crack the vault of heaven, till God hears and feels, and angels weep. Earth will put on weeds of mourning, and like Rachel of old go down to the judgment weeping for her children.
"With what body do they come?" The same body which dies. I assume the bold Scriptural ground that every essential element of it will be raised though its particles be scattered over earth and sea. Hear the evidence of the mighty Paul, the chiefest of the Apostles: "It is sown in corruption, it is raised in incorruption; it is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory; it is sown in weakness, it is raised in power; it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body." (I Cor. 15:42-44). The conclusion is clear: the same body which is sown in corruption, dishonor, and weakness will be raised in incorruption, glory, and power. The same body which is sown a natural body, will be raised a spiritual body. Not a similar body but the same body. Again: "This corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality." "This corruptible" -as strong as words can make it. The Lord "shall change our vile body." (Phil. 3: 21). "All that are in the graves shall hear his voice, and shalt come forth." On any other hypothesis there is no resurrection at all.
Is Christ's body to be the model? The ineffable–brightness of His glory shone above the noonday sun and blinded Saul of Tarsus. Saint John saw Him in the midst of seven golden lamps, "clothed with a garment down to His foot," girded with "a golden girdle," His head environed with a radiating aureola, His eyes ablaze with Omniscience, His feet glowing like a furnace, His voice as the sound of many' waters. The inimitable Prototype of celestial glory and regal magnificence, whose lightest shades defy the painter's pencil, were the painter an angel. Like Him? 0 God! shall we ever attain to such perfection? me? you? Like Him "Christ shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body."
Finally, "How are the dead raised up?" Inquiring humanity asks the question, doubting philosophy asks it, infidelity asks it, Christianity asks it. Paul answers it: "According to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself." God's power is pledged for its performance. That Power which made systems, and holds them in awful and perpetual balance. That Power which confounded chaos with order, and laid the foundations of the universe deep down upon nothing, and reared up its columns, towering into empty space, wreathed them with constellations of worlds, and propped against the throne of God. That Power which carpeted creation's temple with emerald, roofed it with azure, and lit it up with ten thousand suns. That Power Which drives planets along their orbits and hurls the erratic comet to kindle its fires upon the black altars of night where suns never shine. That Power which shakes the earth, shivers its granite, ruptures its strata, overturns its mountains, and up heaves its valleys. That Power which binds lightnings to its chariot and rides upon the tempest. -That Power is pledged to raise me from the dead. Can it do it?
Ah! angels could have philosophically descanted with more apparent reason upon the impossibility of creation before the fiat of God peopled immensity with worlds and intelligences, than you can philosophize against the resurrection of the dead. Are there mysteries ? Are there difficulties? Paul refers them all to the power of God for an ample solution. You see as great wonders every day. Cast a seed in the ground; it enlarges: in a few days the germ sends up a stem and down a root: the radicals imbibe the nutriment, and the stem enlarges and mounts upward as if by magic: soon its long conical blades droop in verdant curves to the earth, and the flower upon its top drops a dust upon the silken flower on its side, and a long ear of golden corn rewards the farmer's toil-every grain of which possesses the same reproductive power of the first. An acorn bursts, and a deep-rooted, gnarled, and knotted giant, who rears his trunk to 'heaven, whose mossy limbs and crested foliage nod majestically among the clouds, is the result. Vegetable life and existence are crowded with wonders.
The phenomena of animal life, its causes, productions, nature, maintenance, reproduction, are full of mysteries and difficulties solving and unfolding every hour. Earth, air, and water are replete with mysteries, and instinct with difficulties. Every moment is a seeming eternity of impossibilities; every atom a universe of overwhelming difficulties. For man, who is himself a microcosm of wonders, standing amid a world of wonders, profound and confounding, to present the difficulties involved in the resurrection of the body as an insuperable obstacle to its accomplishment, is at once preposterous. Though your bones may lie bleaching in the bottom of– the sea, or fossilized be deeply imbedded in rock; though your dust may be scattered over continents, transmuted into animals or plants, diffused in the air, diffused in the water, or mingled with clay, God's power is able to raise you from the dead, and is pledged to do it. That Power sooner or later will be exercised. The last day will come. The sun unwheeled will drag along the jarring heavens and refuse to shine. The stars will hide their
faces, and the moon will roll up in the heavens red as blood, and hang her crimson livery upon the wing of the night. Earth will tremble upon her axis, and huge mountains of woe will drift and lodge upon her heart. A mighty angel with a face like the sun, clothed with clouds, and crowned with a rainbow, and shod with wings of fire, will cleave the heavens in his lightning track, and descending with his right foot upon the troubled sea, and his left foot upon the quaking earth, lift his hand to heaven, and swear by the Judge of the quick and the dead that time shall be no longer. Old Time, the father of centuries and the tomb-builder of generations, will drop his broken scythe and break his glass, careen and fall a giant in ruins.
The trump of God will then sound. Its resonant thunders will roll through all the lengths and breadths of Death's vast empire, and its old walls and arches crammed with buried millions will fall in crashing ruins. The dingy king will drop his scepter ringing in fragments upon the damp pavements of the grave, and fly howling from his tottering throne down, down to Erebus. The antiquated dead will start into life from their ashy urns and funeral pyres. Pyramids of granite and crypts of marble will he rent in twain to let the rising bodies come. Mummies will fling off the trappings of centuries, and pour from their vaulted chambers. Inquisitions will rock upon their foundations and revivified dead will stream from their dungeons. Abbeys, cathedrals, grottoes, and caverns will be vocal with life. Wanderers will shake off their winding sheets of sand, and rise from the face of the desert. Human bones will break away from their coral fastenings; mermaids draped in dripping weeds will mourn the evacuation of all their caves; old ocean will heave and swell with teeming millions.
The battlefields of the world: Troy and Thermopylae, Talavera and Marengo, Austerlitz and Waterloo, Marathon and MissoIonghi; the battlefields of Europe, Asia, Africa, and America, will reproduce their armies, and crowd the world with revivified legions. Indian maidens will leap from the dust of our streets, and our houses overturning will let their chiefs to Judgment. Abraham will shake off the dust of Machpelah, and arise with Sarah by his side. David will come with harp in hand. The reformer of Geneva and the apostle of Methodism will come side by side.
Our village church yards and family burial grounds will be deserted. All will come: patriarchs, prophets, Jews and Gentiles, Christians and heathens, bond and free, rich and poor-fathers, mothers, children, sisters, brothers, husbands, wives-all from Adam down will come forth. And all the good all around the world all together will hail this redemption's grand consummation, with one proud anthem, whose choral thunders, rolling along all the paths of space, will shake the universe with its bursting chorus: "0 death, where is thy sting? 0 grave, where is thy victory"?
EDITOR'S NOTE: Special thanks to my former association with Dr. John R. Rice and the paper he founded, The Sword of the Lord, for introducing me to the messages of Dr. William Elbert Munsey. Munsey was a popular Methodist minister, born on July 13, 1833 and died October 3, 1877 (44 years). He was converted to Christ at age 17 during a Methodist camp meeting. He taught school and served a number of small churches before his well-prepared and powerful sermons were discovered by greater numbers. His church services were packed and people crowded his meetings two hours before he would speak. Dr. Bob Jones, Sr. asked Dr. Rice to publish a book of sermons by Dr. Munsey. That book, Eternal Retribution!, was first published in 1951. In his remarks, Dr. Jones reported that the sermons in this book were taken from a two-volume set (I believe the only books credited to Dr. Munsey) of remarkable sermons. I searched the Internet for the books and found a used book store offering them in their original covers. I purchased them; amazingly at a very low cost. It appears that everything Dr. Jones and Dr. Rice knew about Mr. Munsey was taken from those two volumes. I am happy to own them and pleased to present the sermon you have read on this blog, The Resurrection of the Human Body.
http://salvationlinks.com/?page_id=207 This should be a link to a page featuring a marker placed in honor of Mr. Munsey.


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Weekly Photo Challenge: Early Bird
Broken creatures are often labelled as selfish… Maybe because they are. In a totally unselfish way.
Once a soul is broken, it is very rare that somebody sees it, somebody fixing it is even rarer. Broken souls are a wonder, they are the most resilience creatures that can ever exist On earth. You see the thing is they are lost but they have so much radiance it illuminates whichever path they pass through. They leave their mark.
Lost where you ask? Themselves of course. Since nobody else can uncover the mystery they are, they themselves try to figure it out. Putting together the puzzle, broken pieces that are. It's like a Maze within their minds and souls. They are in a constant struggle to find a home where they belong. In the process they become lost, in search. They are forever trying to understand the puzzle, that is their heart. Since nobody else can do it, they have to do it for their self. It's not an easy task. It requires patience, resilience and love. Love which is often lacking on their part. Love which is over flowing for others but non-existent when it's time to give themselves back.
They are selfish, yes. Because they are so lost within themselves to ever see there are people around who might be willing to give them love. The Love; they deserve, The love; they need.
So be good crazy hearts, let's give this love one more try.

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Forest Fires in Amazonia
What's behind the flames?
Since the beginning of August, the media are full of pictures and articles that testify the severity of the fires in the Amazon rainforest. Social media are covered by hashtags, such as #PrayforAmazon, #SavetheAmazon or #AmazonFires. For the first time, the issue has made it onto the agenda of this year's G7 summit. However, fires in the Amazon rainforest are a recurring phenomenon rather than a novelty. So how come that the current situation in the Amazon is gaining so much international attention? And which role do we and our consumption patterns play in this context?
Slash-and-burn in Amazonia – no new phenomenon
Amazonia, the lowlands of the world's most water-rich river, extends to both sides of the equator and is home to the world's largest contiguous rainforest area. About 60% of the forest is located on Brazilian territory, but Peru, Bolivia, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, French Guyana and Ecuador also contain parts of the "lungs of the earth". Pressure on Amazonia's ecosystems and the indigenous population living in and from the forest has been increasing ever since the industrial revolution. The situation has particularly sharpened since the economic development of the region in the 1960s. In the mid-1970s, the Brazilian military which had seized power in 1964 and would be able to hold it until 1985, started colonizing Amazonia with the construction of the "Trans-Amazonica" road.
Systematic slash-and-burn of large forest areas
In the 1990s, the rate of forest clearings rises significantly with the expansion of cattle farming and the cultivation of soy. In addition to the creation of farmland, the construction of settlements and roads as well as the exploration of mineral resources leads to the gradual destruction of Amazonia's rainforests, which mainly affects the indigenous population.
The main reason for this lies in the consumption patterns of the societies in the Global North. We create the markets for goods such as meat, biofuel or tropical wood and in doing so, support the exploitation of Amazonia.
Who is responsible? What is our role in this?
Without a doubt, the current president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, has significantly contributed to the extensive fires in Brazil: instead of combatting illegal logging and land grabbing, he announced an extensive amnesty. He only allowed firefighting measures after several EU states, such as France and Ireland, had expressed their refusal to sign the Mercosur trade agreement. Since his inauguration, the indigenous population has become the target of recurrent attacks along with physical violence and hostilities constantly increasing. State institutions in charge of the demarcation of indigenous areas have been systematically weakened and lobbyists from large landowners have been appointed to lead key authorities.
But forests aren't solely burning in Brazil, but on Peruvian and Bolivian territories as well. Time has come to scrutinize the responsibility that societies of the Global North should bear within these developments. As the second largest market for Brazilian consumer goods and raw materials, the role of the EU is of great significance. The direct causal link between our consumption patterns and the current situation in Amazonia can no longer be overseen as our consumption is acting as a fire accelerant. While the consequences for the global climate are becoming ever more drastically evident, parts of the global community seem to acknowledge the global responsibility. When offering €20 million emergency aid to Brazil, the G7group recognised the importance of the Amazon rainforest on the one side. On the other hand, however, it must be clear that this is not about money!
What is missing instead is the political will: that of the countries in the region to decidedly tackle issues of forest logging, land grabbing and mining, but also that of countries in the Global North to reduce imports of critical goods and resources. Instead of strengthening the very same powers that profit most from the destruction of the rainforests, we have to change consumption patterns and import regulations - and above all, we have to redefine the value of the rainforest.
What is different today? Where does the international attention come from?
- The number of fires that have been set at the same time has never been this high. This is especially significant because the "fire season" has not even begun.
- Awareness for the connection between rainforest destruction and climate change is growing.
- The international community is becoming more and more sensitive for such developments. Constant verbal aggression of the Brazilian president Bolsonaro towards the indigenous population, his repeatedly expressed view that only cleared areas are productive as well as his claim to advocate for the interests of great land owners and the agricultural lobby raises international concern.
- This year, the fires contain a clear political message to Bolsonaro from the agricultural lobby: we thank the president for standing up for us and express our gratitude by setting as many fires as possible, to show that we are ready to work the lands. Many fires were set simultaneously, in agreement of the farmers amongst themselves.
COICA, the indigenous partner association of Climate Alliance in Amazonia, has published an open letter in which they declare an ecological and humanitarian emergency. They further state:
"We request and summon the unity and solidarity of all the Indigenous Peoples of Abya Yala and the world to testify, denounce and end the genocide and ecocide that the peoples are suffering in the ancient territories of the Amazon Basin."
Further on, they lament the incompetence and the lacking will of the Bolivian and Brazilian state to protect the population – peasants and indigenous peoples. They request the UN and the High Commissioner for Human Rights to take immediate measures to fight the current fires and prevent future ones, as well as the international community to support and stand with the victims. Climate Alliance members have passed a declaration of support calling for solidarity with indigenous peoples during international conference in Rostock.
They have also initiated a campaign to collect donations for the indigenous communities who are directly affected by the fires.
Help our partners in Amazonia!
Donations with the reference "Fires in Amazonia" can be transferred to the following bank account of the Climate Alliance:
- GLS Gemeinschaftsbank eG
Being a non-profit association, the Climate Alliance is able to issue a donation receipt. Please contact Thomas Brose for further information: t.brose(at)klimabuendnis.org
Call to suspend EU trade negotiations with Brazil
On the 17 June 2019, more than 340 civil organisations called upon the EU to suspend the ongoing negotiations about the Mercosur agreement. Both Climate Alliance's European secretariat and Climate Alliance Austria have signed the joint letter. Explaining the worsening situation in Brazil with regards to human rights and the environment, the document urges the EU to send a clear message to president Bolsonaro by rejecting any free trade agreement under the current conditions. Ending human rights violations and deforestation, as well as committing to concrete climate protection measures should be the premise for a continuation of the negotiations.
Find out more about indigenous peoples on our website. Further information on this topic can be found on the website of Climate Alliance Austria, as well as in the statement of rainforest Expert Hans Kandler (only in German).
If you want to discover how you personally can develop more sustainable consumption patterns, check out our overdeveloped website.
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A Sandwich a Day: Beef on Weck at Top Round Roast Beef, Los Angeles
A different sandwich profiled every single day.
As a longtime northern New Yorker, I've often come into contact with the beef on weck. It wasn't very popular in my neck of the woods up near the Adirondacks, but any field trip or family vacation spent near Buffalo meant lots of roast beef. Thinly shaved meat, often served on kaiser rolls, beef on weck and its related sandwich counterparts were cheap and widely available. And, more importantly, it was way better than the Arby's on the thruway heading back.
You won't find the same proliferation of roast beef sandwiches out in Los Angeles, let alone the regionally specific beef on weck. But the recently-opened Top Round Roast Beef on La Brea now proudly serves the beefy specialty ($5.95), along with custard shakes, curly fries drowning in brown gravy, and some seriously kickin' horseradish sauce.
As the name suggests, Top Round Roast Beef only concerns itself with 100% USDA Choice top round cuts, slow roasted for half a day before falling under the whirring blade of a sharpened slicer. There's plenty of moistness retained in each sandwich, thanks to the au jus the beef comes with, but a thick smear of "atomic horseradish" should be more than enough to keep your bready bun from taking over. If anything, you'll be reaching for a fountain soda from the Coke Freestyle machine to help tamp down the burning in your nose, not the to relieve any dryness in your sandwich.
That roll is actually what separates beef on weck from other similar roast beef sandwiches that come with a dose of "horsey sauce." It's a light, compact kaiser variation often referred to as a kummelweck by old-timers with Eastern European lineage. The top comes crowned with sea salt flakes and caraway seeds (technically caraway fruit, but c'mon), while the split interior is dipped in au jus and given a light grilling. The result is a soft, slightly crusty roll that neatly wraps the lean beef, while the horseradish offers the punch that might otherwise be lacking.
The sandwiches at Top Round Roast Beef are a nice little window into the past for millions of small town folks (specifically Midwesterners and Western New Yorkers). These compelling flavors aren't easy to find outside of the regions they're born in, and even harder to scare up in Los Angeles. For those looking to recapture the sandwich of their childhood (and thousands more hungry folks who somehow ended up in L.A.), Top Round Roast Beef has managed to do just that.
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One of the most interesting parts of reaching one's thirties is seeing how impermanent, flexible, and downright unexpected someone's career path can end up being. Such is the case with Motoi Okamoto.
Previously having worked on a decade's worth of Nintendo titles, including Pikmin, Super Mario Sunshine, and Wii Play, Okamoto left Nintendo in 2008 to form Entersphere, the company responsible for PS Vita launch title Army Corps of Hell.
There's quite a difference indeed between cute little plant-critters and a deposed king of Hell. Personally, I love seeing anyone make this kind of jump. So many writers, artists, and designers have so much creativity to put into the world that it's very cool to see them work with different platforms and genres.
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Chuck Billy of Testament
Interview by Luxi Lahtinen & Niko Karppinen
Live- and backstage photos by Luxi Lahtinen
Transcription by Niclas Lindstrand
Jalometalli festival, which is arranged at the metal heart of northern Finland, Oulu, seems to get better and better each year as far as the line-up of bands is concerned. The festival has been organized since 2002, and for the last 3 years the festival has also become one of the most noteworthy metal festivals in Finland along with Tuska and Sauna Open Air festivals.
Last year the organizers of Jalometalli managed to book such names as Onslaught, Helloween, U.D.O., Dismember, etc. for the festival. This year?s menu hardly paled in comparison to the previous years? settings; especially thanks to such known and popular international metal acts like Candlemass, Kreator, Holy Moses, Unleashed, Rotting Christ and Testament for ensuring such a strong setting for every self-respected metalhead.
Undoubtedly one of the Jalometalli?s most awaited bands in 2007, were the Frisco-thrash pioneers Testament who made their reunion in February 2005 with the original band members. Testament hit Europe for a bunch of gigs in August ?07, playing shows in such countries as England, Norway, Sweden, Belgium, etc. Also, the band has been preparing songs for next album that they are supposed to start recording in March 2008. That new album will also feature Nick Barker (ex-Cradle of Filth, ex-Dimmu Borgir) on drums, so it?s gonna be interesting to see how his blast beats will fit into the new Testament songs.
2 experienced reporters from Metal-Rules.com found the Testament frontman Chuck Billy from the backstage after the show late at night, and Chuck was more than willing to reveal more details about the band?s future as well as giving his thoughts about several other topics that we wanted to inquire from him.
Thanks to the Testament tour manager Mike Stellone and Chris Delaney of Adrenaline PR for setting up the interview for us
After THE GATHERING album, everything seemed to be ready for Testament for coming back stronger than ever. THE GATHERING was released in 1999, over 7 years ago. Soon after it was released, your guitarist back then, James Murphy, was diagnosed with a brain tumor and because of that he was unable to continue with the band (though Murphy underwent surgery and made full recovery later). In 2001 you were diagnosed having cancer and also got completely recovered later in 2003. Can you tell us something about those circumstances straight after THE GATHERING, how bad were those years for Testament actually when the ground was badly shaken under Testament?s feet at those days due to the band members getting sick?
I think THE GATHERING was a combination of everything we had worked on until that time, musically and vocally and everything. When James got sick, those days weren?t good. Then when I got sick, I didn?t play music for years. I didn?t do anything with music, so those were bad years but we don?t look back now that we?ve made it through it all. It?s just all about going forward now. That?s about it. I don?t think about it.
Did you ever think to quit Testament during those tough years?
Well, when I got sick and lost all my hair ? I?ve had long hair my entire life ? I thought that ?my music career is over now, I?ll just try to survive and live?. I didn?t think about music, I just tried to exist and stay alive. Once I got through the sickness and everything I started growing my hair back and started playing music again. I put everything behind me. I didn?t think about quitting, just that this was probably the end of it and tried to concentrate on surviving.
How and when did you start to warm up an idea about this classic Testament line-up? Did the main idea about getting the old line-up back together happen when you played at Dynamo Open Air -festival, Holland in 2005?
Actually the idea came up when I was trying to get us on the Dynamo festival. I talked to the promotor who had just confirmed the reunited Anthrax, who did their first ever tour in Europa, and he asked ?What are the chances of getting the original Testament?? I said ?I don?t know? and when I got home I started calling everybody. In about one week?s time everybody said ?Yeah, sure, let?s go play with Anthrax, that sounds like a fun show?. That one show turned into five shows that week and we just kept adding and adding and adding. We had a good time with it and at that time we decided that maybe we should do a record together. So that?s what we?ve been doing, just playing and writing and having fun.
Over the years the sound of the Testament has been updated quite a bit – I mean, especially when you recorded your albums like DEMONIC and THE GATHERING, you used some of these Death Metal style riffs and parts on those two albums.
DEMONIC I think was different because we had so many different drummers and what they brought to the table with the music made me wanna sing more like death metal. The songs just made me wanna sing that way. I try to take the vibe from the music and those songs made me wanna do it like this. It was a different step from me to take a whole album and sing nothing but death vocals. I didn?t know how people would react to it, like the old Testament fans, maybe they didn?t wanna hear that style on the songs. But I think it probably grew on a lot of fans and I?d love to do some of that stuff again.
You also played a brand-new Testament track, titled ?The Afterlife? song at Earthshaker festival in Germany on July 20th. Do you think ?The Afterlife? pretty much also represents musically how your next album is going to sound like?
No, that?s probably one of the more melodic, commercial sounding songs. The other songs are a lot more heavy, a lot more intense. That was one that just fell into place really quick and we knew we wanted to play a new song for that show so we decided not to give them everything but to give them something in the vein of what we were playing. I think it?s a catchy song, a melodic song. But I don?t think it represents the whole record, no.
As far as I know, you have 8 songs ready for your next album. How many songs more are you going to write for your forthcoming album before you enter a studio?
I want at least an hour of music before going into studio and now it?s about 40 minutes so I guess we?ll write another five or six more songs. This is the last trip of the year for us, then we go home and do nothing but work on the record and make plans to record it.
Have you already decided which studio you are going to use for these recordings of your new album?
We will probably do the drums here in England and then do vocals and bass and maybe guitars in the Bay Area. We?re actually moving into our old studio where we did DEMONIC and THE GATHERING and FIRST STRIKE STILL DEADLY. We?ll do the vocals and bass there, I?m not sure where we will do the guitars, we?ll see how it all turns out.
Will Andy Sneap produce it?
Yeah, we signed with Andy yesterday and we?re gonna start with the drums at his place.
Testament inked a worldwide deal with Nuclear Blast this summer, and before that you had this deal with Spitfire…
What went wrong with them?
They never supported the band. We were with theem for nine or ten years and not one time did a representative of the record company come to a concert. We even shot a DVD in London where their home base is and none of them showed up. That?s really strange, isn?t it? It was a weird situation with them. We were on a contract, but we wanted out. Nuclear Blast has wanted us for a long time but the time wasn?t right. Once Spitfire got sold to Sheridan Square they said they wouldn?t sign any more bands and that they would only do gospel so we don?t fit in their plan. They asked what we wanted and we said we wanted to get off. So they sent us a letter and we got off and started calling all the labels to make them give offers. Nucelar Blast came right at the front, just stepped up with the right offer and the right deal. They?re probably the best metal label for us. We?ve had problems with labels going bankrupt on us. THE GATHERING was probably our best work, we put our heart and soul into it just to have someone not care about it. It?s kinda a shame but now I think Nuclear Blast are gonna do a great job. They believe in the band and I don?t think they?re going away anywhere soon.
What kind of hopes or expectations do you have towards your new label, Nuclear Blast?
They?re gonna do a great job in promoting and marketing, good budgets, good marketing budgets. All the guys on the label are fans and believe in this music. The very first show we did, everybody from the label showed up. That was more than we ever had in all the years with Spitfire and that was the first time we met them. They?re really excited and so are we. It?s gonna be cool, a good relationship I think.
You have now Nicholas Barker in Testament?s line-up (former Cradle of Filth and Dimmu Borgir member). How did he end up playing in Testament in the first place?
We called Nick in England and asked him to come out and play ?Over the Wall? with us. I met Nick like 15 years ago with Cradle of Filth and he said even then ?Hey I?m a big Testament fan, if you ever need a drummer, let me know!? We were like ?Yeah, whatever?. Then we saw him in his home town and he just came out and slayed, so we thought, that?s the guy who?s gonna do the record. He?s been in California since February working on the record. He?s here to stay.
Don?t you think there will be possibility that Barker could bring even some of his black metal blast beats in for the forthcoming Testament -stuff?
Yeah, I think so. I like a challenge, we?ve been doing something different with pretty much every record. This is just gonna be a new era for Testament again. We?ve got great musicians back in the band once again and I think he?s gonna add just a little sparkle on the drums.
Testament has been somewhat lucky to work with some of the most remarkable drummers in the whole metal scene. You have had names like Gene Hoglan, Dave Lombardo, Paul Bostaph, Louie Clemente, John Tempesta and now Nicholas Barker. Do you think you?re been lucky that you have worked with all these incredibly talented drummers for Testament?
We?ve been really lucky, that?s it, but it?s almost like a stepping stone as well. Every time we get going with a drummer, the drummer leaves to join another band or something else. No big deal, me and Eric pretty much create the music and the sound and everything. Even on the new record we?ll probably do the majority of the writing.
The classic Testament line-up has been touring together for some years now, excluding all these drummer changes in the line-up, however. How do you feel this current line-up you have on tour right now?
Very comfortable, just like in the old days. When we came back and rehearsed, the first day was a little bit loose and then the second rehearsal was so tight like it was as if we had never left each other. It had been 14 years and it was just like ?Wow, this is the way it?s supposed to be!? There?s a sound that Eric and Alex make together that?s just the Testament sound that I remember. On stage I?m so much more comfortable now because before me and Eric had other musicians playing our songs and it felt like we had to carry the show and the songs. It?s not like that anymore, we all did this together so now we?re all carrying the songs.
Talking about this so-called ?Big Four of Thrash?. If you take a look at what has happened to all those four bands over the years, i.e. Metallica, Megadeth, Anthrax and Slayer, yes – they are still very big and very popular amongst people, but do you think they can still live up well enough to their thrash metal reputation of which they originally became known for since they started back in the day?
Of course Slayer does. And Anthrax playing their classic stuff of course, but I think they?ve jumped around too much on bangwagons that were popular at different times. Metallica… I was a big James Hetfield fan and I loved his lyrics, he was always very clever about his lyrics. Once he started letting the rest of the band help write lyrics it just changed for me and it was different. Too many cooks in the kitchen. James should just take control of that band and do what he always did. I hope Rick Rubin sits them down and pulls the best out of them. The old stuff, that?s what I miss.
Do you find it kinda funny that it?s called ?Big Four of Thrash? because bands like Legacy and Exodus followed almost right after these 4 aforementioned thrash bands made themselves known as that "Big 4 of Thrash?
Well, music is all about timing. At the end of our time with the original band, when we split up, grunge was in with Nirvana and Pearl Jam and all the metal bands got dropped off the major labels. The radio stations weren?t playing metal anymore. It was all timing. We were set up for it, then the band broke up, we were dropped by the label, radio wouldn?t play us so we decided to stay heavy but just go underground I guess. That?s what we did for a while and that?s what we still are. I think that with Nuclear Blast and a big push for this new record, who knows? Anything can happen but we?re just having a good time playing. Just having fun!
Do you miss the past times like you had in the 80s?
Well… no. I think it?s more meaningful now because in the 80s we were a lot younger and there was a lot of partying instead of seeing the world and paying attention to the world. Now, after so many years and with the original guys back in, we?re paying attention to the fans and what?s happening. It?s more meaningful. We take more time to sit and talk to fans because before we thought we were rock stars or whatever and were always fucked up. (laughs) Now we enjoy our company and everyone?s more mellow instead of shitfaced so it?s about performing and making a good show. Before we?d be drunk up there going ?Uh, I dunno…? but now we feel good and confident.
Tom Araya from Slayer has already informed in public in one recently made interview about Slayer that they might still do one album and then break up.
I doubt that.
What kind of thoughts does this raise in you?
They won?t do that! Why would they do that?
It was in an interview with some magazine…
That?s bullshit. Why would they do that after this many years, are they gonna go and get jobs?
Tom?s getting older and can?t headbang like he used to back in the days…
Yeah, but you don?t need to. I used to bang a lot harder back then, now it?s about concentrating on my singing. I still headbang a little but it?s more about performance.
Do you think it?s a publicity stunt to gain for attention for Slayer? Even though they?re a very popular band these days, they wouldn?t need to do any that kind of ?media sucking? for themselves…
I don?t see it, they?ve established so much for so many years, I can?t see them throwing it away like that.
There have been quite a few comebacks of old thrash metal bands (Exodus, Onslaught, Heathen, etc.) during these past years. Do you see this overall as a good thing?
Of course! Especially right now when the climate is getting good again. You have new bands like Lamb of God and Trivium and those nu-metal bands getting popular and doing great shows and it?s good for bands like us. I think the climate is just getting healthy again. The timing is right for us because we have the original guys back again, having a great time and playing better than ever. I could see us keep doing this for another 10 or 20 years. Tom might be done but we?re not!
So those comebacks might actually help the other bands?
Of course! MTV, radio, they play a lot of metal. Shadows Fall, all those bands, they?re doing great out there. I think the climate is good.
How much have you had time or interest to follow the local metal scene there in California?
Machine Head is doing great of course. And I hear that Forbidden are talking about coming back now. That?d be awesome. Death Angel came back, Exodus came back and have done great records so it?s good, man!
What about these new bands like Warbringer, Merciless Death, HeXeN, Exmortus and many others? They all play old school thrash metal even though they?re young.
That?s good. You gotta stay true to what you believe in and what you enjoy doing.
Do you believe this so-called second coming of thrash metal has something to do with the fact that some of the pioneers of thrash like Exodus, Testament, Destruction, Onslaught, Kreator and the likes, are still around and have been making strong albums?
It?s good. The production of records has come a long way from what it was like going into the studio. You can get a bunch of guys who can?t really play and get a production that makes them sound great. Maybe live it doesn?t sound the same but production wise if you can get a guy who gets the right sound and the right songs, anything can happen these days. You don?t have to go to the big stuios these days, you can have a home studio and make a great record.
Last couple of questions about Dublin Death Patrol that is sort of project band of yours…
Yeah, it?s a fun thing with me and some friends. All the guys grew up in Dublin together and it was supposed to be just for fun, doing some covers. We ended up writing some songs and they turned out pretty good so we thought, let?s do a record. So we did a record, played a week?s worth of shows over in Europe and it was really successful. It?s more of a party band, you know. Fun party band!
Dublin is the place that you?re coming from?
How did you meet Zetro Sousa and got him to come in on this project?
I knew Zet through my little brother. He was friends with my brother and he was the singer of Legacy with everybody in the band. Then he quit Legacy to join Exodus and called me up saying ?Hey, call Alex Skolnick and get an audition for these guys!? So I called up, got an audition and got the gig. (laughs) Been there ever since!
Your album has been released on Godfodder Records. What label is that actually?
It?s one that me and Willy, the bass player, started.
I was asking for it in Finland and they said it wasn?t available in Europe at all.
No, because we only sell it on our web site, dublindeathpatrol.com. We manifacture it, sell it and put the packages together ourselves. The record business is such a funny business now and with our experiences we just thought to give it a shot and do it ourselves. Just for fun, it?s not like we?re gonna change music or something.
You have these cover songs on the album from Mot?ad, U.F.O. and…
Thin Lizzy.
How did you choose those bands exactly to be covered on your album?
Those are some fave songs that we liked growing up. That?s what we enjoyed. We?re gonna play some The Plasmatics stuff and Dead Kennedys, stuff that we loved when we were kids, loving something that wasn?t mainstream but rebellious.
What kind of expectations do you have for your new album once it comes out?
I think we?re gonna do a great job on it, then do a lot more touring next year… sky?s the limit right now. We?re just having fun right now and that?s the most important factor in this project. We?re all enjoying the company and being up on stage. It feels like old times again. We?re more confident because it?s the original guys. As long as we keep doing that, I?ll be happy to do it for the next ten years.
Do you imagine doing anything besides Testament in the next few years?
No, but I?m open to guesting on other projects and records by other musicians. There?s a lot of great new musicians on their way up and I?d love to be a part by singing on what they create. I listen to the new bands and hear that they?re inspired by our stuff and I listen to their stuff and get inspired by what they?re doing. It?s this big full circle. I would enjoy to sing with some new sound.
Ok Chuck, I guess we are done, so thank you for this chat with us and all the best for you guys on your way towards your next album.
Thank you guys. Appreciated!


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First half's uncertainty sets up spectacular stretch run
Dodgers, Rays prediction for World Series could change in one wild week of second half
Rays and Dodgers in the World Series. Book it. This guarantee has an expiration date of, oh, Tuesday.
But seriously. One of the best things about this era of baseball is that there's only a teensy difference between the top 10-15 teams. At least 18 teams still have a very decent shot at the postseason. And what decides the playoff berths may be things that haven't happened yet -- a trade or an injury.
For instance, if Matt Garza winds up with the Rangers, how do you like their chances? Pretty good, right?
Or if the Tigers land Jesse Crain? Suddenly, the Tigers might be the popular pick in the American League.
Perspective on playoff races changes by the week, especially in the AL East. The Red Sox have spent 92 days atop the division despite some adversity. At some point, we may have to acknowledge they're the best team in the best division.
But not yet.
Let's push the pause button for a brief tribute to the Reds and Tigers. Those teams are gifted physically and tough-minded mentally. They're expected to win and have demanding fans.
Neither club had a spectacular first half, but they soldier on, Detroit staying atop the AL Central and Cincinnati positioned for a third playoff appearance in four years.
When you play those two teams, you know what you're going to get: a good team that plays hard, a team that reflects its manager. Tigers skipper Jim Leyland and the Reds' Dusty Baker have more yesterdays than tomorrows in the game, but both are the gold standard for preparing teams and riding out the highs and lows.
But back to the 2013 World Series.
Right now, it's the Dodgers and Rays.
There's an easy case to be made for the Cardinals, Pirates, Nationals, Tigers, Reds, A's and Rangers, as well. There's a tougher case to be made for the Orioles, D-backs, Yankees and Braves. If you look at the Indians, Phillies and Rockies just so, you can be convinced they've got a shot, too.
In recent years, we've seen teams come from way back.
First, the Rays. They've got David Price back and pitching at a high level. He has a 1.08 ERA since his return from the disabled list. Alex Cobb may also contribute in the second half. All season, we've been waiting on Tampa Bay to get its rotation straightened out. Consider it done.
The Rays also playing terrific defense and are scoring more runs than a lot of us expected. To watch Yunel Escobar and James Loney is to be reminded that no general manager is better at what he does than Andrew Friedman.
Tampa Bay has the best record in the Majors since May 8 (41-23), which means nothing. But it tells you the Rays are capable of playing at a very high level over a long period of time. They play more road games than any other AL team the rest of the way, so if they get in, it won't be a fluke.
Now the Dodgers.
Some of us wondered if all the large personalities assembled with a sledgehammer approach to spending money could coexist, and for a long time, the Dodgers were a mess.
But Yasiel Puig began spraying line drives all over the field, Hanley Ramirez and Adrian Gonzalez got hot, and the rotation looks terrific with Clayton Kershaw, Zack Greinke, Ricky Nolasco and Hyun-Jin Ryu.
The D-backs have fought their tails off and been pretty much what general manager Kevin Towers and manager Kirk Gibson hoped they'd be. Their rotation is potentially good enough to take control of the race, especially if Towers adds a bullpen arm or two.
The All-Star break could be a reset button for the Giants and Matt Cain. They, too, are still capable of winning.
At the moment, though, the Dodgers have the most talent, and in the end, it's talent that usually prevails.
On June 21, they were 30-42 and 9 1/2 games out of first place in the National League West. If you told their fans they were about to take off, you'd be laughed out of the room.
Los Angeles sprinted into the All-Star break on a 17-5 run and cut its division deficit by seven games to 2 1/2. Even with the lack of production at third, the Dodgers are solid everywhere else, and like all championship teams, they're getting contributions from all around their clubhouse.
Now they're starting to feel it. Gonzalez and Ramirez and Matt Kemp and the others seem to be having fun, with their confidence growing by the day.
If these past few seasons have taught us anything, it's to be careful about these kinds of predictions. At various points this season, the A's, Rangers, Red Sox and Orioles have looked like the AL's best team.
And that's a good thing. That means these final 10 weeks could be spectacularly wonderful, with good teams punching and counterpunching. Here's to enjoying another great ride.


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How to be savvier with public transportation
- An array of transportation services, apps and deals allow business travelers to save time and money
- Try hotel courtesy buses, subways, light rail, trolleys, or a valet service that works with your car
- Since June, passengers have been able to ride for free on buses from Boston's Logan Airport
Uber is easy.
That's why frequent corporate trekker Ryan Endress says he loves the mobile app that allows users to instantly summon a town car whether they're in Denver, Dallas or Paris.
"At the end of the ride you don't have to worry about a receipt or tip," says Endress, a marketing director who lives in Chicago. "They take care of that for you and email the receipt. For business travel, it's such a time saver."
Convenience and comfort can be hard to come by on the road. But there are an array of transportation services, apps and deals that allow business travelers to avoid long taxi lines and hit the ground running when they're out of town, and maybe save money while they're at it.
For travelers who need to rent a car, Enterprise has a deal that will only cost $9.99 a day, Friday through Monday at most of its off-airport sites across the U.S. The annual offer lasts through May 22, 2013.
If you'd rather not rent a car or hail a cab, GroundLink bills itself as "the next generation of car service," connecting travelers to a network of drivers around the world.
Travelers can call GroundLink or click on the company's app or website to reserve a car days before they need it. When they finally take their trip, they'll receive a message as soon as their flight touches down telling them their car's whereabouts.
They can also connect with their driver with just a click, and like Uber, travelers can track their private car's movement on their mobile device.
"We're trying to remove that anxiety," says Tony Dastolfo, GroundLink's chief sales officer. "The intent is to say 'here's your car. It's on your way' ... and you literally see it move on the map."
If you're in Philadelphia, Pacifico Airport Valet will not only ferry you to and from the airport in your own car -- it will detail it and work on the engine while you're away.
Timmy O'Brien, Pacifico's general manager, says the service also offers a deal to travelers who need to leave their car for 15 days or longer, charging them a base fee of $6 a day for parking.
And don't worry about a cold car not starting when you return. "If someone (is gone) for a long period of time," O'Brien says. "we start the car periodically so they don't have to worry (that) ... they'll come home to a dead battery."
Veteran business travelers know to use hotel courtesy buses to get to where they're staying. Many big-city hotels or airport hotels run them around the clock to accommodate guests.
And public transportation -- subways, buses or light rail or trolleys offered in many of the nation's biggest cities -- is another option for business and leisure trekkers, whether they're going to or from the airport or around town.
Since June, passengers have been able to ride for free on buses between Boston's Logan Airport and South Station, a major transit hub. Before the trial program, which is scheduled to end after Jan. 6 of next year, there was a $2.50 fee, says airport spokesman Richard Walsh.
"It's a great way to promote public transportation . .. getting to and from the airport in something other than a vehicle," Walsh says. "We're limited here in parking so we have to find that balance.
"By offering this as a pilot we're hoping to really raise the visibility and put this in the forefront of our passengers' minds," he says. "If they are looking for options, it's an economically and environmentally friendly way to get from Logan Airport to downtown Boston."
Meanwhile, Pittsburgh has a fare-free zone for buses in the city's downtown commercial area and for light rail users traveling between downtown and Pittsburgh's north shore where many businesses and cultural attractions are based.
"If you're visiting here, it's a great deal," says Jim Ritchie, spokesman for the Port Authority of Allegheny County. Among the companies and attractions making their home on the north shore are Alcoa, which has its corporate headquarters there, and the Andy Warhol Museum.


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Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's wunderkind, decided to buy Instagram on his own, and told his board hours before a vote that as majority-share owner he intended to buy the company.
The report, which was confirmed by unnamed sources on Facebook's board, said that Zuckerberg had been negotiating with Instagram head Kevin Systrom for the past three days before letting the board know on April 8. Facebook acquired the photo-sharing service later that day, its largest acquisition ever, the Wall Street Journal reported.
Negotiating mostly on his own, Mr. Zuckerberg had fielded Mr. Systrom's opening number, $2 billion, and whittled it down over several meetings at Mr. Zuckerberg's $7 million five-bedroom home in Palo Alto. Later that Sunday, the two 20-somethings would agree on a sale valued at $1 billion. . . . By the time Facebook's board was brought in, the deal was all but done. The board, according to one person familiar with the matter, "Was told, not consulted."
With 57 percent of voting rights and 28 percent of Facebook stock, Zuckerberg was within his rights to proceed without board approval. Despite all this, the board did vote on the deal, but it was mostly a symbolic one. The deal was already done.
The more interesting facts are that Systrom was only hours from agreeing to $50 million in venture capital before Zuckerberg pounced. Does Zuckerberg have spies? Or was he simply on Systrom's speed dial? Either way, Systrom asked Zuckerberg for $2 billion, which was pretty gutsy considering his company has had zero revenue. Zuckerberg got that number down, but it's still likely an inflated one.
For those thinking of investing in Facebook, they should realize that Zuckerberg has shown that he's no silent CEO. He intends on brokering deals with or without board approval.


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Jinger Heaston designed this cover and it's as if she's read the book because this is just what I've always seen in my heart as a cover for this story. She's perfectly captured the mood and details of the novel. The body on the beach? Oh, I've seen this body before -- but only in my mind's eye. What a delight to see everything I've imagined come together on one perfect cover!
Sniffing Sand releases from Whiskey Creek Press in July. It's the first in a series of stories set on Chincoteague Island so I'm pretty jazzed about the whole project. Sandswept, the second book, is set to release in December.
For now, the cover and blurb...and a multitude of thanks to the talented lady whose vision so closely matches mine. Thank you Jinger! :)
Building the perfect house on idyllic Chincoteague Island is a dream come true—or so Nina thinks. But when her marriage ends just as the finishing touches are put on her beachfront home, Nina's pleasure turns to pain. To further complicate things, a body washes up just outside her back door. Not just any body, either. Facedown and seaweed-covered, the corpse is her ex's new lover. Now that presents its own share of problems!
Maxx Tallman, Chincoteague's Chief of Police, is smart, handsome and fast on the trail of the murderer. He just might be the man to help Nina free herself from the web of intrigue that ensnares her. Who knows? He might be the one to help fill her lonely nights, too.
But first they've got to catch a killer. Fast—before the tide pushes any more bodies onto the sand.
Sunday, June 01, 2008
Sniffing Sand - first peek!
Posted by Sarita at 5:36 AM
Labels: Covers, Jinger Heaston, Sniffing Sand
9 comments:
- Dru said...
ooh, I love your cover. Will this book be available in print? I can't wait to read this. Would you call these titles cozy mysteries?
- Unknown said...
That is a gorgeous cover!! And the story sounds awesome, too.
Good luck with this. I know it's going to be a good one!
BTW, Snowdance made me cry at the end. What a great story. Vineyard Mambo is on my TBR stack right now. :^)
- Unknown said...
And the Whiskey Creek books are all going to be in print, aren't they? I love holding a book in my hand!
- Anonymous said...
You are such a talented lady, how could I not create a great cover for your fantastic books!! You are a blessing to me, and I am honored to work with you on your books!!!
- Sarita said...
Thank you, Dru. I love the cover too! :)
The book will be available in print right from the day it's released so readers will have their choice of reading formats. And if anyone would like to order a copy of any of my books directly from me, the buy link at the top will help with that.
I would call them cozies, you're right on target with that. I dislike gore and blood, gruesome stuff, but I love mysteries. I love puzzling and clues...and nice, comfortable people who live in places I'd want to live in, so I write mysteries that are more puzzle-ish than gory. So cozy mysteries? Exactly!
Thanks so much for your kind comments! :)
- Sarita said...
Susan, thank you so much for your kind words! What a lovely way to begin the day!
The cover is amazing. Jinger Heaston is a very, very talented lady and I am so thrilled she did this cover. It's perfect for the story!
I'm so glad to hear Snowdance touched you so deeply. I've heard from a number of readers the ending made them cry. I hope that's a good thing! :)
I hope you enjoy Vineyard Mambo. Thanks for taking the time to visit with me here.
- Sarita said...
Susan, yes. All the Whiskey Creek titles (except the Whiskey Shots short stories) are available in print. :)
- Sarita said...
Oh Jinger, you're too kind! I am so lucky to have your covers on my stories. Thank you so much for doing all that you do to make my stories shine! I am over the moon for this cover--and the others, too! :)
- Anonymous said...
Gorgeous cover. Absolutely gorgeous!


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LAS VEGAS--We've seen more than a few innovative, stylish keyboards at CES this year, but few can claim to be pieces of furniture.
Meet uChair, the keyboard that lets you type in true comfort. It's basically a recliner with a split keyboard embedded in the armrests.
You sit back, adjust the headrest, pull up a screen, laptop, or tablet attached to an articulated bracket, and get to work. Or fall asleep, depending on how comfy you find it.
While uChair was a lot more comfortable than typing from a garden-variety office chair, it isn't easy using a split keyboard if you've never tried one, especially when the halves are so far apart.
It also feels a little like a hospital bed.
Health experts tell us that sitting is the new smoking.
Since you should stand up and move around regularly, being this close to horizontal may not be the best idea if you're already a sedentary type.
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Meanwhile, there's space on the right armrest for a mouse.
Also, the embedded cable system means you don't have the usual spaghetti mess of wires around your workspace.
Exhibitor Beijing uChair Technologies, one of the many Chinese firms in the Las Vegas Convention Center's South Hall, says uChair will launch in the U.S. and China in June for $699.
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VENICE, Italy, Aug. 30 (UPI) -- Director Paul Schrader says Hollywood starlet Lindsay Lohan, the lead in his film "The Canyons," is a "great actress," but her behavior was "unspeakable."
"Today I am free," UsMagazine.com reported Schrader told reporters at the Venice Film Festival Friday. "In the past 16 months, I have been hostage to Lindsay Lohan. She is a great actress, she should be here, but her behavior is unspeakable."
"Yes, nobody thought it was a good idea for her to go," a source told the magazine about Lohan's absence from the film's screening at the festival. "That sort of atmosphere, the festival, the parties. The culture of it is drinking and celebration and not in line with keeping her on the right track."
Lohan, 27, recently completed a 90-day, court-ordered rehab stay.
The actress was under court order to undergo in-patient treatment for substance abuse as part of her conviction for reckless driving and lying to police.
She checked into the Betty Ford Center May 3 but was reported to be unhappy with her treatment and requested a transfer to Cliffside Malibu. She wrapped up her treatment and left the facility last month.
The "Mean Girls" and "Freaky Friday" star's once-bright career has been eclipsed by her battles with drug and alcohol addiction, motor vehicle offenses and other legal woes.
The Oprah Winfrey Network was reported to have paid the troubled actress about $2 million to star in an eight-part docu-series about her efforts to remain sober and revive her career.