[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 68 (Wednesday, May 15, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H5055]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

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  The House met at 9 a.m.
  The Reverend Rees F. Warring, senior pastor, Elm Park United 
Methodist Church, Scranton, PA, offered the following prayer:
  God of all people and nations, You who created and are still 
creating, may we be willing partners of Your creation. Help us to be 
merciful and just, compassionate and caring, that this will be a more 
merciful and just, compassionate and caring world. We pray that the 
quality of all life will be better because of the way we live and work. 
Enable each of us to be an instrument of Your peace, working to 
eliminate all that separates peoples and nations from You and from each 
other. Free us from all bigotry and prejudice, from pride of place and 
status, from the lack of vision and the loss of faith. Inspire us, this 
and every day, to be so concerned about Your way and truth, that Your 
will may eventually be done on Earth as it is in heaven. Amen.

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