[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 6 (Tuesday, February 1, 1994)]
[Senate]
[Page S]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]

                                 prayer

  The Chaplain, the Reverend Richard C. Halverson, D.D., offered the 
following prayer:
  Let us pray.
  Mighty God, help us to hear the word of the Lord.
  ``Beware that thou forget not the Lord thy God * * * Lest when thou 
hast eaten and art full, and hast built goodly houses, and dwelt 
therein; And when thy herds and thy flocks multiply, and thy silver and 
thy gold is multiplied, and all that thou hast is multiplied; Then 
thine heart be lifted up, and thou forget the Lord thy God * * * And 
thou say in thine heart, My power and the might of mine hand hath 
gotten me this wealth. But thou shalt remember the Lord thy God: for it 
is he that giveth thee power to get wealth * * * And it shall be, if 
thou do at all forget the Lord thy God, and walk after other gods * * * 
As the nations which the Lord destroyeth before your face, so shall ye 
perish * * *''--Deuteronomy 8:11-14; 17-20.
  Sovereign Lord, help us hear this sober warning from Moses, the law-
giver, and the words of George Mason, speaking at the Continental 
Congress: ``Every master of slaves is born a petty tyrant. They bring 
the judgment of heaven upon a country. As nations cannot be rewarded or 
punished in the next world, they must be in this. By an inevitable 
chain of causes and effects, Providence punishes national sins by 
national calamities.''
  Help us to hear in the name of the Lord of Life. Amen.

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