[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 132 (Tuesday, September 20, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: September 20, 1994]
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                                 PRAYER

  The Reverend Donald Paul Cooper, Beaver Dam Baptist Church, 
Fayetteville, NC, offered the following prayer:
  Shall we pray. O God, we invite You into this place. We invite You 
because Thou art the God of Heaven and Earth and all that is therein 
and besides Thee there is none other.
  We pray, O God, that You will continue to remind this body that You 
are the God and that we are one nation under You, with liberty and 
justice for all, and to this hour they have been called.
  I pray, O God, as they uphold the laws and make new laws in this 
great country, that they will be reminded of another great law giver, 
even Moses. I pray, O God, as they deliberate and discuss and debate 
various issues that shall come before them from time to time, that You 
will give unto them the wisdom of Solomon.
  O God, as they walk among men and work among the people, both here at 
home and abroad, I pray that You have given to them the integrity, the 
honesty, and the statesmanship of that of an Isaiah.
  Lord, as they seek for peace for the world, I pray that they may know 
the Prince of Peace who passeth all understanding.
  Lord, grant unto these Thy servants the grace and the grit and the 
guts to act upon those things which are best for every citizen rather 
than to be persuaded by a few.
  We pray, Lord God, You will bless their families, their husbands and 
their wives and their children and their grandchildren and above all, O 
God, may Thou will and Thy purpose and Thy mission be done in and 
through each and all of us.
  In the name of Christ our Lord we pray, amen and amen.

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