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PROCEEDINGS
THE PRESIDENT: The Convention will please
come to order.
The invocation this morning will be offered by \
the Reverend Robert L. Briggs, of the Arlington Presbyter-
ian Church, in Towson.
Reverend Briggs.
REVEREND BRIGGS; Shall we bow our heads?
Our Heavenly Father and our God, it is with a
deep sense of gratitude to Thee and a sense of our unworthi-
ness and inadequacy that we come now to the beginning of a
new day, into Thy presence, asking Thee, our Father, that
we may have Thy mind and Thy wisdom helping us ever to
remember that this is the day which the Lord hath made.
We will rejoice and be glad in it, accepting this day, our
Father, as good stewards of Thine, as a time in which we
shall serve Thee and Thy people of this State acceptably.
Grant us, we pray, a full understanding of
Thy will for us. Help us to realize that the wisdom of God
is greater than the foolishness of man. But as we seek
Thy will through Thy holy spirit we shall know what Thy mind