[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 91 (Wednesday, June 25, 1997)]
[House]
[Page H4377]
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:
  We pray, O gracious God, that the great virtues that support our 
civilization and culture will grow in our awareness and strengthen our 
lives and our communities. We know that there must be those values and 
truths that make stronger the fabric of our society and give cohesion 
and purpose to daily living. With all the competing beliefs about and 
with all the striving for new and more relevant ideas, give to us, O 
God, the strong faith to see clearly Your blessings to this world and 
to each of us. May those blessings continue to give us meaning in our 
endeavors and show us more clearly the paths of justice and of peace. 
In Your name we pray. Amen.

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