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                              S E N A T E


Vol. 140


WASHINGTON, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1994

No. 13


Senate


(Legislative day of Tuesday, January 25, 1994)

  The Senate met at 9 a.m., on the expiration of the recess, and was 
called to order by the Honorable Harlan Mathews, a Senator from the 
State of Tennessee.
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                                 prayer

  The Chaplain, the Reverend Richard C. Halverson, D.D., offered the 
following prayer:
  Let us pray:
  In a moment of silence, let us pray for Official Reporter Frank 
Smonskey, who is in serious condition in the hospital.
  For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, 
saith the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my 
ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.--Isaiah 
55:8, 9.
  God of Abraham, Isaac and Israel, the prophet Isaiah reminds us how 
upside down we can be in terms of Your wisdom and ways. We transpose 
values, making absolutes relative and relatives absolute; we call evil 
good and good evil. Each becomes a final authority when it comes to 
morality. Then we wonder, Why cultural decay? Why social disorder?
  Patient Father, awaken us to the need for absolute truth--to the 
Divine Standards given on Mount Sinai. Give us grace to measure our 
lives against Your thoughts, Your ways. Turn our hearts and our minds 
to Thee, and visit our Nation with a mighty spiritual and moral 
awakening.
  We pray in His name who died that we might live. Amen.

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