[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 126 (Monday, September 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 moment of silence, let us remember a number of our people who 
have passed from this life.
  Former Senator Symms' mother; Paul Monaghan, for many years a press 
reporter; Beth Ormond, from the stationery room; and Officer 
Dextradeur, here many years in the Senate.
  Let us remember their loved ones in their loss.
  The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel 
together, against the Lord, and against his anointed, saying, Let us 
break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.--Psalm 
2:2,3.
  Sovereign Lord of history, the psalmist asks a penetrating question: 
Why do people, nations, and rulers resist Thee and Thy law? Since the 
Tower of Babel, mankind has been organizing God out of his life, 
individually and institutionally. Even the church organizes God out of 
its life.
  Dear God, let this not be true of the leadership of our Nation. As 
our Founding Fathers looked to Thee for protection and direction in 
establishing a new nation, so may we today. As they depended upon Thee 
to set our Nation on a course honoring to God and dedicated to the 
common good, so may we. Grant, O God, that these sacred precincts may 
be a place of Divine approval and blessing to all peoples.
  In the name of the Lord, our God. Amen.

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