[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 147 (2001), Part 13]
[Senate]
[Page 19134]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 prayer

  The Chaplain, Dr. Lloyd John Ogilvie, offered the following prayer:
  Almighty God, You have created us to know, love, and serve You, and 
then live with You forever. We thank You for the life and leadership of 
Senator Mike Mansfield. We are grateful for this truly great American, 
distinguished Senator for 34 years, majority leader for 15 of those 
years, outstanding Ambassador to Japan, and distinguished patriot all 
through his life. We have all learned so much about leadership from 
this man of few but firm and pointed words with which he expressed 
strong convictions and profound concern. We remember the warm twinkle 
in his eye, his engaging smile, and his abiding faithfulness as a 
friend. But most of all, we are comforted by the fact of his 
relationship with You, which was at the core of his being. We thank You 
for the quiet inner security of his faith in You and his expectation 
that death would only be a transition in eternal life. Goodness and 
mercy followed the Senator all his life and now he dwells with You 
forever. In the name of Him who is the resurrection and the life. Amen.

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