[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 92 (Thursday, June 26, 1997)]
[House]
[Page H4649]
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                        House of Representatives

  The House met at 10 a.m.
  The Reverend Lloyd W. Johnson, Jr., St. Paul's Episcopal Church, 
Pekin, IL, offered the following prayer:
  Almighty God, who hast given us this good land for our heritage: We 
humbly beseech thee that we may always prove ourselves a people mindful 
of thy favor and glad to do thy will.
  Bless our land with honorable industry, sound learning, and pure 
manners. Save us from violence, discord, and confusion; from pride and 
arrogance, and from every evil way. Defend our liberties, and fashion 
into one united people the multitudes brought hither out of many 
kindreds and tongues. Endue with the spirit of wisdom those to whom in 
thy name we entrust the authority of government, especially the Members 
of this House of Representatives, that there may be justice and peace 
at home, and that, through obedience to thy law, we may show forth thy 
praise among the nations of the Earth.
  In the time of prosperity, fill our hearts with thankfulness, and in 
the day of trouble, suffer not our trust in thee to fail; all which we 
ask through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

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