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'Father Fallon, LCDR. CHC, USN. gives Captain Halvorson, USN, Commanding Officer, Bible and church pennant shortly before the Chaplain's transfer to the U.S. Naval Academy, 'Annapolis, Maryland.

From Father Fallon

Dear Friend,

To me, less than least of all on TOPEKA, the favor was given. to minister to all aboard, the unfathomable riches of Christ, and to receive from you the charity and friendship which I shall always treasure.

For this reason I kneel before the Father from whom every family in heaven and on earth takes its name; and I pray that He will bestow, on you and your families, gifts corresponding to the richness of His glory.  May He strengthen your inner selves with power through His spirit.  May Christ dwell in your hearts through faith; and may love be the root and foundation of your life. Thus you will be able to grasp fully and with all the saints the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know that the love of Christ surpasses all knowledge, so that you will be filled with the fullness of God.

Father Edward Fallon
LCDR, CEC USN

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