[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 14]
[Senate]
[Page 19997]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 prayer

  The guest Chaplain, Dr. Karl Kenneth Stegall, First United Methodist 
Church, Montgomery, AL, offered the following prayer:
  Let us bow in prayer:
  Almighty God, Judge of all nations, we offer You today our heartfelt 
thanks for the good land which we have inherited. We praise You for all 
of the noble souls who in their own day and generation did give 
themselves to the call of liberty and freedom, counting their own lives 
not dear, but giving all devotion to establish a land in the fear of 
the Lord.
  More especially today, we thank You for the Members of this United 
States Senate. Enlarge their vision, increase their wisdom, purify 
their motives. We would not ask You to bless what they do, but we would 
rather ask that they shall do what You can bless.
  May they see that in all they do they are acting in Your stead for 
the well-being of all of the citizens of this great Nation. May they 
have a lively sense of serving under Your divine providence and a holy 
remembrance that where there is no vision, Your people perish.
  Let them always remember that they serve a public trust far beyond 
personal gain or glory, and may they always acknowledge their 
dependence upon You. Amen.

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