[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 74 (Tuesday, June 14, 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:
  The prayer this morning is one with which General Washington 
concluded a letter to the Governors of the 13 States when he resigned 
his commission from the Army in 1783.
  ``Almighty God, we make our earnest prayer that Thou wilt keep the 
United States in Thy Holy protection, and wilt most graciously be 
pleased to dispose us all to do justice, to love mercy, and to demean 
ourselves with that charity, humility, and pacific temper of mind which 
were the characteristics of the Divine Author of our blessed religion, 
and without a humble imitation of whose example in these things we can 
never hope to be a happy nation.''
  Patient Lord, grant that the faith of our fathers may be our faith as 
a nation, lest we lose the incredible legacy they left us.
  His name Who is incarnate truth. Amen.

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