[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 56 (Tuesday, May 10, 1994)]
[Senate]
[Page S]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]

                                 prayer

  The Reverend Richard C. Halverson, Jr., of Falls Church, VA, offered 
the following prayer:
  Let us pray:
  As we go to prayer, let us remember the significance of this time and 
the swearing-in of the new leader in South Africa and the safe return 
home of any of the leadership who may have participated in that event.
  Almighty God, it is written, ``He that hath no rule over his own 
spirit is like a city that is broken down, and without walls.''--
Proverbs 25:28.
  Set up Thy rule in our hearts, Lord, for we know we cannot serve 
others without first reaching the mission field of ourselves.
  In the words of another, ``He knows not how to rule a Kingdom, that 
cannot manage a Province, nor can he wield a Province, that cannot 
order a City; nor he order a City that knows not how to regulate a 
Village; nor he a Village, that cannot guide a Family; nor can that man 
Govern well a Family that knows not how to govern himself; neither can 
any govern himself unless his reason be Lord, Will and Appetite her 
Vassals: nor can Reason rule unless herself be ruled by God, and wholly 
be obedient to Him.''--Hugo Grotius, ``Teaching and Learning America's 
Christian History.''
  In the name of Christ who has promised to put a new heart and spirit 
within us. Amen.

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