[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 109 (Tuesday, August 9, 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:
  We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created 
equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable 
Rights * * * to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among 
Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed * * 
*.--Declaration of Independence.
  Eternal God, Sovereign of history and the nations, our Founding 
Fathers conceived a political system based upon the self-evident truth 
of a Creator-God who is the Author of human equality and liberty. 
Moses, the great lawgiver, warned in the Torah: Beware that thou forget 
not the Lord thy God * * * if thou do * * * ye shall surely perish.--
Deuteronomy 8:11, 19.
  In our human pride, Lord, we have assumed that ``man is the measure 
of things,'' and that he can achieve whatever he desires without God. 
Meanwhile, our culture is collapsing around us like the Tower of Babel.
  Patient, loving God, awaken us to the desperate need to give Thee 
priority in our lives, individually and collectively.
  We pray in His name who is Life incarnate.
  Amen.

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