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The Prayer
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The Prayer That Moved a Convention
Except the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it.
— Psalm 127:1
THE STORY
It was the summer of 1787, and the Constitutional Convention was on the verge of collapse.
The delegates had been arguing for weeks. The small states and the large states were deadlocked. The entire enterprise was unraveling, and men were talking about going home for good.
Then Benjamin Franklin, eighty-one years old, the oldest man in the room, rose to speak. He reminded them that in the beginning of the…
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