[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 28 (Tuesday, March 5, 1996)]
[Senate]
[Page S1479]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

                                 prayer

  The guest Chaplain, Dr. O.S. Hawkins, pastor of the First Baptist 
Church of Dallas, TX, offered the following prayer:
  Dear Lord, thank You for the realization that You are truly alive 
today. Bring us to a conscious awareness that, as Your Word states, 
``The Most High still rules over the affairs of men,'' that ``Your eyes 
run to and fro over this whole world to show Yourself strong in behalf 
of those whose hearts are fixed on You.''
  Lord, impart a spirit of faith, hope, and love to this body of men 
and women in these strategic places of leadership. A spirit of faith 
because You said ``without faith it is impossible to please You.'' A 
spirit of hope because You are the personification of our hope, our 
blessed hope. And, a spirit of love because You said that is the single 
distinguishing characteristic by which we would be known. We ask these 
things in Jesus' name. Amen.
  The PRESIDENT pro tempore, Senator Hutchison of Texas.

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