West Virginia Wesleyan College - Murmurmontis Yearbook (Buckhannon, WV)

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Nrnety Three... Me thodrst affrlra ted Relrgron rs an rmportant emphasrs To my mother and father whose deep commrtment to the Chrrstran farth and unswervrng devotron to rts trmeless prrncrples have grven me an rnsprrrng example of the Strength of Love Martrn Luther Krng Jr Are the reasons for the declrne of today s Chrrstran morals and values a reflectron of the home? An rnstrtutron of a church can only provrde knowledge but the parents and homelrfe need to take thrs learned knowledge and put rt rnto practrce Granted outer rnfluences of socrety s envrronrnent reflect rn the development of all of us as rndrvrduals But rf the values establrshed at a young age are rnstrlled they wrll not stand up to these evrl forces Man rs evrl hrm that they are rntruders and remrnds hrrn of hrs hrgher destrny and more noble allrance Man s longrng for the drvrne as he seeks to adjust to the demands of trme he knows that eter nrty rs hrs ultrmate habrtat When man comes to hrmself he knows that evrl rs a forergn rnvader that must be drrven from the natrve sorls of hrs soul before he can achreve moral and sprrrtual drgnrty The proglems always for man have been hrs rnabrlrty to conquer evrl by hrs own power Why can t l cast rt Out 7 Why can I not remove thrs evrl from my lrfe 7 The real weakness of the rdea that God wrll do everythrng rs rts false conceptron ofboth God and man lt makes God so absolutely soverergn that man rs absolutely helpless depraved to wart on God It also sees the world so contamrnated by srn that God only touches here and there through a rnrghty rnva sron God rs not a despot but a Father he wrll not thrust hrmself upon us nor force us to stay home when our mrnds are bent on journeyrng to some degradrng far country But He follows us rn love and when we come to ourselves and turn our trred feed back to the Father s house He stands wartrng wrth outstretched arms of forgrveness A sensualrty. selfrshness and cruelty rrse aggressrvely rn hrs soul - something wlthrn tells 28 I Decade ol Celebration

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Ninety Two... Energy what are the resources of tomorrow 7 ln today s world there are so many forms of energy Chemlcal Electrlcal Potentral Klnetlc and Solar Wfll they be here for us to use when we go out lnto the world after we graduate 7 energy may neither be created nor destroyed It only changes from one form to another Conservation ofEnergy Since the Industrial Revolutlon man has come to depend more and more on energy The U S and other natlonsl have developed an lndustnal economy and way of llfe that IS almost entlrely dependent upon sources of energy Wlth the demand lncreasrng we are concerned for the future of supplies development of other resources has been glven a great deal of atten tlon throughout the world from nuclear power to new oll and gas flelds Coal has become a major source being researched ln the U S for replacing posslble depleted sources rn the future There are many controversres as to the level of dangers nuclear power may produce However every source of energy the country can develop wlll be needed ln the years to come ffAmerlca IS to continue to succeed as an efflclent economy What are fuel cells 7 How can they be applred 7 What are thelr uses and efflcrency 7 What rs fuel wood7 Can we bring back this source of energy the pioneers once used7 Natural mrneral fuels7 Natural Gas7 Peat7 Coal7 Does It have more to develop7 Synthetic llquld fuels7 Manufactured gases 7 Coke oven gas 7 Water gas produce gas 7 Blast furnace gas 7 Petroleum gas 7 High energy chemical fuels 7 what does the future hold 7 1 1 n 1 , . , . Y . t Decade of Celebration l 27

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We must learn that to expect God to do everythlng whlle we do nothing rs not faith but superstition God nor man will lndlvfdually bnng the world s salvation Rather both man and God made one In a marvelous unity ofpurpose through an overflowing love as the free gift ofhlmself on the part of God and by perfect obedience and receptfvlty on the part of man can transform the old Into the new and our personal llves know that rt IS the struggle wlth sm slavery to drink untruthfulness rmpurlty selfishness take possessron of your own Iffe Evll can be cast out not by man alone nor by a dlctatorral God who invades our lfves but when we open the door and Invite God through Christ to enter Behold l stand at the door and knock lf any man may hear my voice and open the door I will come ln to htm and will sup with hfm and he with me God IS too courteous to break open the door but when we open ft In farth believing a dfvlne and human confrontatlon wlll transform our sm rulned llves Into radiant personalftles excerpts from Strength of Love by Martin Luther King Jr What IS Chrlstran Education 7 Growth ln relzglon 7 Baslc needs and theology concepts 7 Chris tfan Education ln the home 7 Religious Education and the schools communlty fellowship and Instruction ln the church Living Religions of the world ln search of meanlng, Hinduism the vlslon In ward Buddhism Confuclanlsm and Taolsm Shinto Judaism Chrlstlanfty Islam the noble elghtfold path the wlll of heaven the way of the Gods people of the Covenant the greatest of these rs Love Mohammed IS hrs prophet Jainuism .A .Q . .Q .V .E .I .I .4 .I . .4 .u .l .I 4 ,A L ,b .I the threejewels Decade ol Celebration l 29