[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 158 (Monday, November 10, 1997)]
[Senate]
[Page S12481]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                          NATIONAL BIBLE WEEK

 Mr. BINGAMAN. Mr. President, in the spring, I was asked by the 
Laymen's National Bible Association to serve as a congressional 
cochairman for National Bible Week. The goal of the association is to 
encourage the reading and study of the Bible. I was pleased to agree to 
do this, and to join the association in announcing that November 23 
through 30 of this year has been designated as National Bible Week. As 
we expect to adjourn before then, I take this opportunity to offer my 
support for the association's efforts.
  This book, the ``Good Book,'' has come down to us through the 
faithful over the centuries. The bedrock of religion for Jews and 
Christians, it is a boundless source of comfort, hope, action, love, 
guidance, and inquiry. Some of the most beautiful expressions of human 
experience, belief and thought are found in the Bible, flowing from the 
magnificence and grace of God.
  Every day that the Senate is in session, our fine Chaplain, or his 
designee, offers a prayer drawn from the lessons in the Bible. This is 
a solemn, wonderful, reliable moment in the daily routine. Reading the 
book itself is the same.

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