[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 147 (2001), Part 16]
[Senate]
[Page 22446]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 prayer

  The Chaplain, Dr. Lloyd John Ogilvie, offered the following prayer:
  Almighty God, we praise You for the religious freedom we enjoy in 
America. Thank You that the fabric of that freedom was woven by 
lodestar leaders like William Penn who in 1701 published a charter of 
privileges ensuring that everyone would be given liberty to worship You 
according to the dictates of his or her beliefs and conscience. We are 
moved by the fact that the bell celebrating the jubilee founding of 
Pennsylvania was cast in 1751 and became the Liberty Bell which rang 
during the first reading of the Declaration of Independence in 1776. 
Last night, an exact replica cast by the same works in England was 
dedicated to be taken around the Nation and rung. The words cast into 
this Spirit of Liberty Bell are the same as the original from Leviticus 
25:10. ``Proclaim liberty throughout the land unto all the 
inhabitants.'' As this Spirit of Liberty Bell rings throughout the 
land, help us to rededicate ourselves to maintain religious freedom in 
our own lives. Forgive any prejudice in our hearts and purge from us 
any vestige of judgmentalism for people whose expression of faith in 
You differs from our own. As we battle against terrorists and nations 
who persecute people because of their religious beliefs, help us make 
America a nation where we live by George Washington's motto: ``To 
bigotry, give no sanction . . . to persecution, no assistance.'' In 
Your liberating name. Amen.

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