[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 82 (Friday, June 24, 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 Arlington, VA, offered the 
following prayer:
  Let us pray:
  Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not 
charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
  And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, 
and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove 
mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.
  And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give 
my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.--I 
Corinthians 13:1-3.
  And now abideth faith, hope, and charity, these three; but the 
greatest of these is charity.
  Almighty God, as Members of the Senate assemble here for debate, many 
gifts accompany them: angelic speech, prophetic insight, faith to move 
mountains, knowledge, wisdom, good works, and hope. Yet Thy word 
declares that without charity all these speak as sounding brass which 
profiteth nothing.
  Therefore, we pray Thee that charity, the greatest of all these, be 
the overruler of them all here.
  We ask this of our heavenly Father who so loved the world that He 
gave His only begotten son. Amen.

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