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The Wolverine Observer
October 27, 1980
RELIGION
Religious
Emphasis Year
This is the year that Morris
Brown College celebrates one
hundred years of service. During
our Centennial, we, the Religion
Department, plan to rekindle the
spiritual fire that gave Morris
Brown College its beginning.
We are optimistic that a
change will take place at Morris
Brown this year and religious
complacency will leave our cam
pus. We have recently finished
the refurbishing of the original
Morris Brown Chapel in Foun
tain Hall. We are looking forward
to the day that we will be able to
sing praises within its walls.
We welcome back our College
Minister, Dr. T. Nathaniel
Hercules. Dr. Hercules and his
assistant Rev. George Brink bring
a new zeal and enthusiasm that
the Morris Brown Community
needs. They have reinstated
several activities that stress our
theme, "Spiritual Awakeness or
Death.”
Our College Church family is
small at the present but we have
a lot of spirit. We urge your sup
port. Ours is the only College
Church in the A.U.C. that gives
the student minister a weekly
opportunity to utilize his or her
preaching skills in worship. Our
College Church is geared to
serve the needs of the students.
Service is held on Sunday
mornings at 9:30 a.m. at Cun
ningham Auditorium.
Some students feel that a good
way to praise God is early in the
morning. On Tuesday morning
we have Prayer Breakfast from
7:00-8:00 a.m. At this time we
praise God and enjoy each
other's fellowship. Many
students feel that it gives them a
positive attitude as they go outto
start their day.
On Tuesdays andThursdays at
11:00 a.m., we have a midday
service called Nature Worship. It
is so called because it takes place
outside on the main campus.
During Nature Worship, we sing
songs and share testimonies
(Tues.). We also have skits and
sermonettes (Thurs.) This service
is predominantly run by
students.
Bible study is held Wednesday
night at 6:30 p.m. During this
hour we share a systematic form
of Bible study. Students discuss
biblical issues and relate them to
today.
On Thursday night, we have
Fellowship Hour. This hour is set
aside to give Christians the op
portunity to meet and share
ideas. We ask that you come and
share your ideas, testimonies,
and hopes with us.
This year, don't let the
Religion Department go un
noticed. This year, don’t use that
worn out expression, "I don’t
know what’s going on." Find out
what's happening. Get involved!
The Religion Department of
Morris Brown College
Welcomes You to help REKIN
DLE THE OLE MORRIS BROWN
SPIRIT.
Respectfully submitted,
Rev. Andrea G. Cornett
S.G.A. Chaplain
Few People In Really Good Health
Campus Digest News Service
Do you think of good health as
merely the absence of illness?
Dr. Harold Bloomfield, a nation
wide lecturer, author, and director of
North County Holistic Health Center
in San Diego, Calif., says that a
healthy person has a lot more going
for him than just the absence of pain.
In fact, Dr. Bloomfield has come up
with a portrait of the REALLY
healthy person. Here it is:
“Physically trim and fit, full of
energy and vigorous, free from minor
complaints such as headaches, con
stipation, indigestion and insomnia,
rarely gets tired, has radiant skin,
hair and eyes, free from destructive
health habits such as smoking, over
eating, and excessive drinking, men
tally alert and able to concentrate,
clear-headed, active and creative,
able to relax easily, free from anxiety
and worry, self-assured, confident,
and optimistic, satisfied with work
and the direction of his life, able to
respond* to challenge, able to create
the life he wants rather than respon
ding to what seems to happen, able to
enjoy a sense of well-being amidst
adversity, satisfied with love and sex
ual relationships, able to be self-
assertive, fulfilled at peace with
himself and contributing to the lives
of others.”
According to Bloomfield, only 6
percent of us live anywhere near this
state of optimal health. Yet 80 per
cent of us who go to general practi
tioners have no definable organic il
lness.
He explains, “We’re really suffer
ing from the symptoms of stress, or
rather distress, such as excessive
fatigue, low back pain,
gastrointestinal complaints-just not
feeling good. Too many of us have
become used to feeling ‘OK, not bad’
or ‘all right’ as normal and part of
life. It seems the best we can do.”
However, Bloomfield, a
psychiatrist who calls himself a
“stretch” instead of a “shrink”, says
each of us can desip our own holistic
health propam. How do we start?
This is a subject he takes up clearly
and effectively in his new book “In
ner Joy” (Wyden Books). What we
must do first, he says, is quit trying to
force negative health habits out, and
instead, concentrate on starting new
POSITIVE ones.
Six Steps To Accomplish Your Dreams
Many years ago I used to think
that the word "impossible” was
the most profane word in the
English language because
everywhere I heard people say
ing that this and that is im
possible. I found out that with
God all things are possible if you
only believe.
Let us consider the six steps
that we can eliminate the word
"impossible" from our
vocabulary.
First, decide what you really
want. Many people go through
life never getting anywhere
because they never decide
where they want to go. They
never hit anything because they
never shoot at anything. God
gave us an imagination. Just as
the television screen flashes a
picture, so can we put on the
screen of our minds a picture of
whatever we want. Keep flashing
the picture on the screen of your
mind until it becomes clear and
sharp.
Second, write down on paper
your dominant desire. When you
first write it out, it may take a
page, or even two or three, but
then set to work to condense the
idea. You must keep working un
til you can state your dream
clearly in not more than fifty
words. I have tried this many
times and I have been amazed at
how much one can put into fifty
words.
Third, after you have stated
your idea then memorize and
repeat it to yourself until it
becomes a part of you. As I talk to
different people who have
reached their goal, I find out that
along the way they became
possessed by an idea.
Emerson once said, "A man is
what he thinks about all day
long." Marcus Aurelius, a sage
among the ancient Romans, said,
“Our life is what our thoughts
make it." The Bible says, "For as
he thinketh in his heart, so is he..
. (Proverbs 23:7)
Fourth, test your idea. Is it
good for you? Is it fair to all
others conconcerned? Are you
ready for it now? Do you hones
tly feel it is according to the will
of God? Remember that you
should never be selfish in your
endeavors. When one thinks
only of himself and lives only for
himself, he has destroyed the
very reason for living. No man
really begins to live until he
begins to live for God and for
others.
Fifth, after clarifying yourthin-
king and thoroughly testing your
motives and purposes, you are
ready for the main thing - begin
to pray. One of my favorite pas
sages of Scripture is Mark 11:22 -
26. “And Jesus answering saith
unto them, Have faith in God.
For I say unto you, That
whosoever shall say unto this
mountain, Be thou removed,
and be thou cast into the sea;
and shall not doubt in his heart,
but shall believe that those
things which he saith shall come
to pass; he shall have whatsoever
he saith. Therefore I say unto
you, what things soever ye
desire, when ye pray, believe
that ye receive them, and ye shall
have them. And when you stand
praying, forgive, if ye have aught
against any that your father also
which is in heaven may forgive
you your trespasses. But if ye do
not forgive, neither will your
father which is in heaven forgive
your trespasses.
Sixth, and last, you must do all
you can toward accomplishing
your desire. You have to work
constantly and hard. Make the
best of all your time.
These are the six steps to ac
complishing your dreams. May
the Lord bless you. Keep these
steps and I’m sure they will be
helpful. By Spencer Booker
Black Students
continued from page 4
that the parents and the
grandparents of those students
who came in buses and cars and
trains from throughout the
country did not help finance the
historic court battles for
integration waged by the
National Association for the Ad
vancement of Colored People
simply to have black people
accepted in token quantities in
white institutions.
To many of us, integration was
to mean more than simply hav
ing a few black athletic scholars
on college football, basketball,
and track teams while turning
out hardly any mathematicians,
chemists, or lawyers.
Moreover, real integration to
us means the full acceptance of
the idea of blacks being
presidents of major integrated
institutions as well asthe coaches
of the top football and basketball
teams in this country.
I think many white Americans
are startled when they hear
young blacks chant for the right
even to be in the majority in a
university or college and have
that majority administered by
black officials.
Several days ago I called in this
column for a national debate
among black scholars and
leaders for the purpose of defin
ing what we mean today by our
demands for an integrated
society.
That impressive march down
Pennsylvania Avenue and the
thoughts enunciated on the
Capitol lawn Monday brought us
a bit closer, I hope, to such a
conference.