[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 82 (Thursday, June 12, 1997)]
[Senate]
[Page S5551]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

                                 prayer

  The guest Chaplain, Rev. Dennis E. Ellisen, offered the following 
prayer.
  Let us pray.
  Almighty God, our Father, we ask Your blessing upon all of us 
gathered today in the Senate Chamber. May Your spirit and presence rest 
upon those who bear a special responsibility in our society toward 
their brothers and sisters. Grant to them, O God our Father, wisdom to 
discern clearly those paths that will preserve and strengthen the bonds 
of humanness and the dignity of persons. Grant to them integrity that 
the principles upon which our society has been mounted may be nurtured. 
So we pray for Your guidance. In our deliberations we pray that Your 
spirit will guide us in what we say and do. We do not ask You to do our 
will but we pray that You will help us to do Your will so that the 
efforts of the day may be worthy of your blessing. Amen.

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