[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 67 (Friday, May 22, 1998)]
[House]
[Page H3757]
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House of Representatives

  The House met at 9 a.m.
  Dr. Carl Holladay, Candler School of Theology, Emory University, 
Atlanta, Georgia, offered the following prayer:
  Let us pray. Gracious God, we confess You as the one who inspired our 
beginnings as a people in quest of freedom and who sustained these 
hopes in times of threat and despair. In deep gratitude today, we 
remember this Nation's brave men and women, who died for the cause of 
freedom.
  Bless this House as it deliberates today. Give those gathered here a 
special measure of Your wisdom. Let them do their work driven by a 
desire to serve the common good. Let them hear the plaintive cries of 
those longing to be heard. Let them know the hopes of those who live 
with noble dreams unfulfilled. Let them remember the prayers of those 
who long to be free.
  We pray for peace and justice, knowing how the demands of justice 
compete with cries for mercy, yet willing to make ourselves instruments 
of Your peace in this world. Amen.

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