[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 38 (Monday, March 30, 1998)]
[House]
[Page H1704]
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 recognize, O God, how we long for unity in our communities and we 
pray for a harmony that brings people together in a spirit of 
cooperation and teamwork. Yet, we know, too, that there can be enmity 
and animosity which does no one any good and which weakens us as a 
Nation.
  So we pray, gracious God, that we will be instruments of Your peace, 
and messengers of Your reconciliation so that our faith will be active 
in love, and our citizenship will be seen in our deeds. Help us to 
translate our words of prayer this day into respect for others and a 
reverence for all Your people. Amen.

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