[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 26 (Thursday, March 12, 1998)]
[House]
[Page H]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                                 PRAYER

  The Chaplain, Reverend James David Ford, D.D., offered the following 
prayer:
  We know in our lives and in our world there are moments of diversity 
and times of unity. There are the issues that separate us and subjects 
on which we all agree. Teach us, O gracious God, to share together a 
unity of spirit by which we focus together on those values and 
traditions that express the high ideals of our Nation's history. While 
we are many people with many perspectives, yet we can be one in spirit 
and one in unity and thus demonstrate our respect and appreciation one 
for the other.
  In Your name we pray, Amen.

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