[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 66 (Monday, May 19, 1997)]
[House]
[Page H2877]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                                 PRAYER

  The Chaplain, Reverend James David Ford, D.D., offered the following 
prayer:
  We pray, gracious God, that in all our relationships and in our 
efforts to improve the quality of life for every person, we would be 
impatient with injustice but patient with each other. Help us never to 
lose our zeal for righting the wrongs that trouble our land nor 
weakening our desire to help the neediest among us. While we may differ 
in our paths to achieving justice, may we never fade in our respect for 
each other. Unite us, O God, in our common goals so that justice will 
flow down as waters and righteousness like an everflowing stream. Amen.

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