[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 79 (Tuesday, June 21, 1994)]
[House]
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[Congressional Record: June 21, 1994]
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                                 PRAYER

  Reverend Lawrence Burkholder, president emeritus, Goshen College, 
Goshen, IN, offered the following prayer:
  Gracious God, we would begin this day of deliberation in gratitude 
for skies above, land below and oceans around, for ``America the 
Beautiful''--purple mountains, fertile fields, rushing streams, and 
flowered deserts.
  Help us to save this inheritance, lest we become rich while the land 
becomes poor, imagining ourselves fulfilled but future generations 
deprived, indulging our well-being without being well.
  Not only for this natural inheritance would we be grateful. We 
rejoice in the soundness of democratic institutions which, though 
vulnerable to human error, persist for the advancement of justice and 
peace, blessed by the wisdom of Founding Fathers, caring mothers, and 
dedicated statesmen.
  By Your kind providence, lead Your servants, our legislators, to make 
good judgments, to the benefit of all your children everywhere. Amen.

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