[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 148 (2002), Part 9]
[Senate]
[Page 12112]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 prayer

  The Chaplain, Dr. Lloyd John Ogilvie, offered the following prayer:
  Gracious, liberating God, who has created us as free women and men to 
love You and serve You by working to assure the personal, spiritual, 
religious, political, and economic freedom of all people, today we 
celebrate the anniversary of the first public reading of the 
Declaration of Independence by Colonel John Nixon, and the ringing of 
the Liberty Bell. We remember the words of Leviticus 25:10 inscribed on 
the bell: ``Proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto the 
inhabitants thereof.'' We seek to do that today. You have revealed to 
us Your mandate that all Your people should be free to worship You. 
Help us to maintain this strong fabric of our Republic. You have placed 
a liberty bell in all our hearts that rings this afternoon calling us 
on in the battle for justice, righteousness, and freedom for all 
Americans and, through our world mission, for the world. You are our 
Lord and Saviour. Amen.

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