[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 30 (Thursday, March 7, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H1777]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                    WELCOME TO REV. CHARLES SINEATH

  (Mr. BARR of Georgia asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. BARR of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, in an age when for many years it 
seems as if our courts and many of our public institutions have been 
engaged in a direct and deliberate effort to eradicate religion and 
recognition of God from whom all our powers and sense of right and 
wrong derive from the face of our public Earth, from the face of our 
public service and our institutions, it is, indeed, gratifying and 
something to me that is daily important to me to recognize that we in 
this House as Representatives of the people of the United States of 
America begin each and every day that we are in session doing their 
work and doing the Lord's work with a moment of prayer.
  I am very happy today to have before us today to deliver the prayer 
for the opening of this session of the Congress this day the Reverend 
Charles Sineath, Methodist minister from First United Methodist Church 
where we have the privilege of serving, I and my family, with he and 
his wife, Ann, today.
  It is, indeed, an honor to welcome him and his wife, Ann, to this 
House, the people's House of the United States of America, today.

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