[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 27 (Monday, March 4, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H1643]
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:
  There are times when it seems our world is filled with the demons of 
violence and chaos and yet, O God, we pray for peace. The lives of some 
women and men and children are irrevocably lost and instead of hope 
there is despair, and instead of respect and compassion there is 
contempt and disdain. O gracious God, from whom we have come and to 
whom we shall return, encourage all people of good will to think and 
speak and act in ways that strengthen the human bond and make right the 
covenant of peace. Amen.

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