[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 98 (Monday, July 25, 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:
  Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for 
thou hast created all things, for thy pleasure they are and were 
created.--Revelation 4:11.
  Gracious God, the Founders of our Republic understood this 
fundamental truth and, upon it, based their conviction of human 
equality, human rights, and a government whose purpose was to secure 
these rights and whose authority was derived from the people. Grant us 
to see, O God, that as we forsake the foundation of our Government, we 
jeopardize the superstructure which was built upon it. As we forsake 
the root of our national uniqueness, we forfeit the fruit.
  Help us to comprehend, dear God, that this is one explanation for the 
futility which besets our best efforts. We are struggling to preserve 
the benefits of a belief we no longer hold to be true. We have 
abandoned the foundation and are striving to prevent the superstructure 
from collapsing.
  Deliver us from secularism, the antisupernationalism which has 
replaced the faith in a Creator God which inspired and guided our 
Founding Fathers. Restore unto us their beliefs that we may recover the 
riches of the legacy they transmitted to us before it is too late.
  We pray in the name of Jesus who is truth. Amen.

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