[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 133 (Tuesday, September 30, 1997)]
[Senate]
[Page S10185]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

                                 prayer

  The Chaplain, Dr. Lloyd John Ogilvie, offered the following prayer:
  A bracing word from the Lord calls us to prayer. Through Isaiah He 
says, ``Woe to those who call evil good and good evil; who put darkness 
for light and light for darkness; who put bitter for sweet and sweet 
for bitter. Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes and prudent in 
their own sight.''--Isaiah 5:20-21.
  Let us pray.
  Almighty God, we reaffirm the absolutes of Your Commandments and the 
irreducible mandates of the Bible. We commit ourselves to those 
principles rather than our own prejudices. Make us moral and spiritual 
leaders of our culture and not chameleon emulators of the equivocations 
of our time. Help us to discern Your good and reject the clever 
distortions of evil. May we be people of the light who dispel the 
darkness of deceit. Keep us from solicitous sweetness or unforgiving 
bitterness.
  Dear God, bless the women and men of this Senate with the divine 
wisdom to lead and the greatness to inspire our beloved Nation. Through 
our Saviour and Lord. Amen.

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