[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 10 (Monday, February 7, 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:
  * * * ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.--
John 8:32.
  Eternal God, ``What is truth?'' When Pilate asked that question of 
Jesus, he knew no truth--everything or anything was true--or nothing 
was true. The temporal Emperor was the only god Rome knew. Life was 
cheap. Morality was whatever one desired to do. Paganism, barbarianism 
was the order of the day.
  Has western civilization reverted? Have we become a pagan America?
  Gracious God of truth and justice, awaken us to our dilemma. We have 
a Bureau of Standards. We could not do business without a clear 
understanding of ounces and pounds, inches and feet, pints and gallons, 
minutes and hours. But we have no standards when it comes to morality 
and ethics. We have no god--not even a Caesar. We have become a 
godless, relativistic society.
  Help us become what we profess to be--``One nation under God.''
  We pray in His name who is Incarnate Truth. Amen.

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