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Scene one. Take 14 135. Senate. This matters with Dr Harris. How do you do? Ladies and gentlemen, inasmuch as we are now in the Easter season, I thought it would be helpful and beneficial if we laid aside some of the legislative problems for a moment and discuss more in keeping the Easter season.

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I'm delighted to have as my guest at this particular time, the chaplain of the Senate, the Reverend Frederick Brown Harris. Dr. Harris, It's a pleasure to have you once again with us. I would like to ask you, would you tell our viewers and our listeners in your judgment, whether or not the people of the United States Senate or relying more and more or less and less on spiritual guide?

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Yeah, well, may I say, first of all, that I counted a privilege indeed to join once more splendid senator from Florida and Smathers and Easter greeting to the people of that great state. Since I was associated with him in a similar greeting last year, Mrs Harris and I have spent happy vacation days and that enchanted part of our great land.

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Uhh! Of course, it's pretty difficult to answer that question about spiritual matters, then all the pressures under which the men labour here. I see many evidences that they rely more and more on divine guidance. It's heartening to know that our chapel of meditation, prayer and quietness is used more and more by the men of the House and the Senate.

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I think a very significant thing that that breakfast held every Wednesday morning, where spiritual things are discussed is so largely attended by the men of the Senate. Well, that's wonderful. Now, Doctor, I think they'd be interested in knowing about how you prepare these daily prayers, which you make to the United States Senate.

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Well, it gives one a feeling of awe, rather, to know that no matter what phrases you decide to use in the prayer, that 50,000 will be out in the mail the next day. And the letters come from people all over the country. I had a letter the other day from a doctor who said he hadn't begun his round of operations in that hospital for years without first reading the Senate prayer for began.

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That's typical of many letters that come from all over people use the prayers, evidently in their own devotional lives. Doctor, tell us what in your judgment is the real significance of Easter? Well, of course, the the heart of the Christian message is Easter. It floods with a new radiance both here and hereafter.

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It seems to me that the one weapon that makes the triumph of degrading communism impossible is Easter. Or it assures us that these clouds of tyranny or lies the blue sky is the truth. I'd like to bring has a little Easter ingredients and lines that I myself wrote on the back of an envelope coming back from the Midwest after a Lenten service there suggested by that popular song some years ago, I believe.

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Yeah, I wrote this on the back of an envelope on the train. I believe for every craven Judas kiss our friends who care, I believe, behind each dark and threatening cloud that God is there, I believe for every thorn which stabs my way, his strength awaits from day to day, I believe.

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I believe I believe, for all mankind. God's boundless love spells hatreds. Do I believe that death was met and vanquished at an empty too serene above the sad world's vast and cruel need looms high across God's deathless. Yeah, these This is my cream. I believe this is our Easter greeting.

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The doctor. Thank you very, very much for that expression. And ladies and gentlemen, thank you very much for looking and listening in. My wife joins me in extending you the very best wishes for this Easter season. Thank you very much.