[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 25 (Thursday, February 11, 1999)]
[House]
[Page H587]
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                        House of Representatives

  The House met at 10 a.m.
  The Chaplain, Reverend James David Ford, D.D., offered the following 
prayer:
  Your word, O God, tells us that we should do the works of justice and 
that we should love mercy. In the quiet of this prayer we admit our own 
willfulness can sometimes get in the way of Your loving spirit and our 
own self-centeredness can hinder generosity and forgiveness. We know 
that it is in the nature of things that we get so involved in our tasks 
and our eyes do not always look to the heavens for wisdom and vision 
and strength, but we pray this day that Your spirit will lift our 
spirits so that justice and mercy will roll down as waters and 
righteousness like an everflowing stream. Amen.

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