[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 89 (Tuesday, July 12, 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:
  In a period of silent prayer, let us remember the flood victims in 
Georgia, the thousands who have been affected, and let us remember 
those who respond in love to their needs.
  ``Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord * * *.''--Psalm 33:12.
  Almightly God, we have come a long way since our birth as a Republic, 
but we have wandered somehow. Our Founding Fathers held freedom of 
religion to be fundamental. We have reduced their deep conviction into 
freedom from religion.
  We have become technological giants--spiritual and moral dwarfs. We 
are sophisticated in scientific progress--primitive in spiritual 
development. We are knowledgeable in the ways of the world--ignorant in 
the way God. We live as though man is the center of the universe, and 
God a peripheral invention of pious enthusiasts. We are abundantly rich 
in material resources--abysmally poor in spiritual and moral capital.
  Dear God, help us to get our act together before it is too late.
  In the name of Him who is the Way, the Truth, and the Life. Amen.

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