[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 111 (Thursday, July 31, 1997)]
[House]
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                        House of Representatives

  The House met at 10 a.m.
  The Reverend Don Bowen, Downtown Baptist Church, Alexandria, VA, 
offered the following prayer:
  Our Father who art in heaven, we seek to hallow Your name as we pause 
at the beginning of this day's proceedings to ask Your forgiveness for 
past wrongs and to seek Your guidance for the days before us. We need 
You, Lord, for we are prone at times to depend too much upon our own 
wisdom and too little upon Yours.
  We pause this day to pray for those who have suffered loss of life 
and home in these recent days. We pray also for those who have left 
family and home to defend the freedoms which all of us enjoy.
  We pray, God, for all who carry upon their shoulders the burden of 
leadership, for theirs is a great responsibility. Help all of us to 
remember that You require one thing above all else from each of us, 
that we do justly, have mercy, and walk humbly with You. May we do so 
as we walk in the footsteps of the One who so clearly personified this 
for us, even Jesus Your Son. Amen.

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