[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 17 (Thursday, February 24, 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:
  Jesus called them unto him, and said, ``Ye know that the princes of 
the Gentiles exercise dominion over them, and they that are great 
exercise authority upon them. But it shall not be so among you: but 
whosoever will be great among you, let him be your minister; And 
whosoever will be chief among you, let him be your servant: Even as the 
Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give 
his life a ransom for many.''--Matthew 20:25-28.
  Eternal God, Lord of Heaven and Earth, Ruler of the nations, we have 
learned in our contemporary culture that power begets power, that the 
powerful sometimes forget they are the servants of the people who 
elected them. In the words of former Senator John Stennis as he spoke 
to junior Senators, ``Some who come here grow; others just swell.''
  Grant to Your servants in the Senate the relevance of the word from 
Jesus: ``* * * whosoever will be chief among you, let him be your 
servant * * *.'' Save Your servants from preoccupation with power and 
infuse them with the full meaning of being a public servant.
  In His name Who is the Servant of servants. Amen.

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