[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 53 (Thursday, May 5, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: May 5, 1994]
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                         NATIONAL DAY OF PRAYER

  (Mr. DUNCAN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. DUNCAN. Mr. Speaker, today has been designated as the National 
Day of Prayer. Church and religious leaders all over the Nation have 
asked people to pray for their families, their friends, their Nation.
  I believe that prayer really does work. This Nation would be a much 
better place today if we had more people kneeling in prayer. Government 
simply cannot solve all of our problems, yet today we seem to have 
turned the Federal Government into some type of god. We are placing too 
much faith in men and laws and not enough faith in God, and in many 
social, personal and moral ways we are seeing almost a disintegration 
of our society.
  Mr. Speaker, we need to come together as a nation again, and we need 
to remember what the Bible tells us in Second Chronicles:

       If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble 
     themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their 
     wicked ways, I will hear their cries from heaven, and will 
     forgive their sin, and heal their land.

  How desperately, Mr. Speaker, our Nation needs to be healed today.

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