[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 179 (Monday, November 13, 1995)]
[House]
[Pages H16949-H16950]
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 Maltbie Davenport Babcock's hymn:

     This is my Father's world,
     And to my listening ears

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     All nature sings, and round me rings
     The music of the spheres.
     This is my Father's world; I rest me in the thought
     Of rocks and trees of skies and seas,
     His hand the wonders wrought.

     This is my Father's world,
     O let me ne'er forget
     That though the wrong seems oft so strong,
     God is the Ruler yet.
     This is my Father's world;
     Why should my heart be sad?
     The Lord is King, let the heavens sing;
     God reigns, let the earth be glad!

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