[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 155 (Friday, October 6, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H9741]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                                 PRAYER

  The Chaplain, Rev. James David Ford, D.D., offered the following 
prayer:
  Let us pray using the words of Isaac Watts:

     O God, our help in ages past,
     Our hope for years to come,
     Our shelter from the stormy blast,
     And our eternal home.

     Before the hills in order stood,
     Or earth received her frame,
     From everlasting thou art God,
     To endless years the same.

     A thousand ages in thy sight
     Are like an evening gone,
     Short as the watch that ends the night
     Before the rising sun.

     O God, our help in ages past,
     Our hope for years to come,
     Be thou our guide while troubles last,
     And our eternal home.

  Amen.

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