[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 148 (Friday, October 16, 1998)]
[House]
[Page H11025]
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House of Representatives

  The House met at 1 p.m.
  The Chaplain, Rev. James David Ford, D.D., offered the following 
prayer:
  We thank You, O God, for the diversity of our backgrounds and the 
variety of our experiences, and yet we thank You, too, for the unity of 
spirit that we can demonstrate one toward another. We are grateful that 
even as our own ideas show the contrasts in our ways, yet we can 
display an attitude of understanding and common feeling of respect one 
to another. We celebrate the beauty of Your whole creation, O God, and 
we are appreciative that we can come together in the spirit of common 
cause and shared responsibility. Bless us, O God, this day and every 
day, we pray. Amen.

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