[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 120 (Thursday, September 11, 1997)]
[House]
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                        House of Representatives

  The House met at 10 a.m.
  The Chaplain, Rev. James David Ford, D.D., offered the following 
prayer:
  We are grateful, O God, for all those people who, by their passion 
for life and by their magnanimous acts of charity, help point the way 
to our objectives, one for another. We are thankful, gracious God, that 
there are everyday saints all about us through whom the light of 
compassion shines and through whom goodness and virtue and 
reconciliation know expression.
  May we use the gifts and talents that we have been given in our own 
lives so we will do such good deeds that reflect the beauty and love 
that You have first given us. Bless us, O God, this day and every day, 
we pray. Amen.

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