[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 88 (Saturday, June 21, 1997)]
[House]
[Page H4135]
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 Charles Brooks:
  God bless our native land;
  Firm may it ever stand
  Through storm and night.
  When the wild tempests rave,
  Ruler of wind and wave,
  Do Thou our country save
  By Thy great might.
  So shall our prayers arise
  To God above the skies,
  On whom we wait.
  Thou who art ever nigh,
  Guarding with watchful eye,
  To Thee aloud we cry:
  God save the State. Amen.

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