[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 174 (Monday, November 6, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H11769]
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:
  Our hearts and souls join with so many others as we mourn the tragic 
death of Yitzhak Rabin and we express this prayer of condolence to all 
who sorrow. May Your peace, O God, that passes all human understanding, 
be with his family and those near and dear to him.
  O gracious God, the creator of the whole Earth, who lifts up leaders 
to do the works of justice and peace, we ask Your blessing on the work 
that he began and carried on with such strength and determination. We 
are overwhelmed, O God, by the thought that a song of peace was sung 
and so quickly followed by the shot of death. Our hearts and minds and 
spirits reach out in prayer this day that the message of peace for 
which he gave his life will be translated into acts of reconciliation 
and will continue with Your grace and with Your benediction in all the 
days to come. In Your name, O God, do we pray. Amen.

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