[Congressional Record Volume 159, Number 135 (Thursday, October 3, 2013)]
[House]
[Page H6191]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                    REMEMBERING DR. MACK KING CARTER

  (Mr. HASTINGS of Florida asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. HASTINGS of Florida. Mr. Speaker, my heart is heavy because of 
the death of one of my dearest friends in Florida, Dr. Mack King 
Carter, the pastor emeritus of Mount Olive Baptist Church. He was an 
extraordinary theologian, teacher, missionary, and an exemplary servant 
of God. His wife, Pat, and the family know that heaven has been 
``deliciously'' improved.
  Mack was a preacher's preacher. I mourn with his many relatives and 
friends and the Mount Olive family.
  One of his favorite words was ``delicious.'' Our lives have been 
deliciously enhanced because of the profound Christian teachings of a 
son of Ocala, Florida, Dr. Mack King Carter. We talked politics a lot, 
and he would remind me always of the admonitions of Leviticus and 
Ecclesiastics.
  I would remind this ``shutdown'' place that we have a responsibility 
to the least of us in this society.

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