[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 90 (Wednesday, July 13, 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:
  Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities, all is 
vanity. What profit hath a man of all his labor which he taketh under 
the sun?
  Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep 
his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.--Ecclesiastes 
1:2,3; 12:13.
  Almighty God, as we open in prayer, we are mindful of the frustration 
which inevitably accompanies the business of legislative action. May 
those who labor here be reminded that the apparent roadblocks which 
often impede our way only serve to lead us to our ultimate solution in 
Thee.
  In the midst of trying circumstances cause us to learn what President 
Abraham Lincoln came to understand when he said:
  ``I have been driven many times to my knees in prayer by the 
overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go.''--McCollister, 
John. ``* * * so help me God,'' Landmark Books, 1982.
  In Him who is the Way, we pray. Amen.

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