Allegheny East Creed

(Understanding the Concept and Maintaining Discipline -- Self Actualization)

My mother made me recite this creed every single day of my elementary schooling from 1st-5th grade. I can honestly say, it helped mold me into who I am. Never settling always striving for better within my self for the greater good of mankind. I think what's funny is that, while a lot of individuals focus on the colors of a figure like Christ, I never did. I always inner stood "him" to be me. There was no separation between us. I strived everyday to bring out what was created within. I lived as if I was behind his eyes completely. Learning to die to lower self through discipline was innately always my goal.

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"Higher than the highest human thought can reach is God's ideal for His children. Godliness-Godlikeness is the goal to be reached. Before me there is an opened path of continual progress. I have an object to achieve, a standard to attain, that includes everything good, and pure, and noble.

I am created in the image of God and I am endowed with power akin to that of the Creator..individuality, power to think and to do . I will develop my power to think and not be a mere reflector of other men's thoughts

I must face the practical realities of life, its opportunities, its responisblities,its defeats and its successes. How i meet these experiences, whether i become master of victim of circumstance depends largely upon my preparation to cope-my education.

I will use my time wisely today!

I will learn something new today!

I will be successful today!

I will have no other gods before thee

I will not make unto thee and graven images nor bow down myself to serve them

I will not take the name of the Lord my God in vain

I will remember the 7th Day to keep it Holy

I will honor my father and my mother

I will not kill

I will not commit adultery

I will not steal

I will not bear false witness against my neighbor

I will not covet anything that is my neighbors

Because the greatest want of the world is the want of men. Men who do not fear to call sin by its right name, men whose conscience is as true to duty as the needle to the pole,men who will stand for the right though the heavens fall. But such a character is not the result of accident; it is not due to special favors of endowments of Providence. A noble character is the result of self-discipline, of subjection of the lower to the higher nature, the surrender of self for the service of love to God

"Church" school serves as a barrier against wide spread corruption, provides for mental and spiritual welfare and promotes prosperity of the nation by furnishing it with men qualified to act in the fear and admonition of God as leaders.

My happiness for this life and for the future immortal life lies with me. I will not be content with dull thoughts, and indolent mind, or loose memory. I wil seek higher attainments.

I will be the center of my life and I will be a servant of God and a friend to man. This is my time,my place, and my opportunity. I accept the challenge to be all I can be."