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have measured events and people by our transient desires

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and have allowed teMpests to arise because desires were not

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granted fulfillment. We have become excited over little

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things. We have permitted anger over matters so insignificant

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as soon to be forgotten.

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We have- become absorbed in adventures which ended

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in dust. We have pursued fleeting fantasies of the

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imagination. We have plucked the apples of pleasure only

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to find them dead ashes on our lips. We have often

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tangled our human relationships so that discord and barren-

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ness have attended what should have been harmonious and

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fruitful. Forgive us. Create within us new hearts.

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Lend us the blessed influences of Thy divine

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Spirit to make us worthy of the tragic hour, and competent

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for its sobering responsibilities. Amen.

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THE PRESIDENT: Roll call.

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(Whereupon, a roll call was taken.)

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THE PRESIDENT: Has every delegate answered

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roll call? The Clerk will record the roll call.

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There being a quorum present, the Convention

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is in session.