[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 16]
[Senate]
[Page 23755]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 prayer

  The guest Chaplain, Rev. Daniel P. Coughlin, offered the following 
prayer:
  Blessed are You, Lord God of Heaven and Earth. Besides endowing this 
country with rich and beautiful natural resources, You have blessed us 
with a strong and creative Government which in every age brings about 
improvement. Under Your guidance, You have allowed us to develop the 
resources of our land and its people. You have called forth the power 
within us to build up its institutions and promote all its best 
interests. Guide the Members of this noble assembly that they may 
perform their public and sacred duty so that this present generation 
may see their accomplished deeds worthy to be remembered. By Your 
blessing, may this country itself become a vast and splendid monument 
of wisdom, of peace, and of liberty upon which the world may gaze with 
admiration, both now and forever. Amen.

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