[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 45 (Monday, March 22, 1999)]
[House]
[Page H1475]
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                        House of Representatives

  The House met at 2 p.m.
  The Chaplain, Reverend James David Ford, D.D., offered the following 
prayer:
  Let us pray using the words of Charles Brooks.

``God bless our native land;
Firm may it ever stand
Through storm and night.
When the wild tempests rave,
Ruler of wind and wave,
Do thou our country save
By thy great might.
So shall our prayers arise
To God above the skies,
On whom we wait,
Thou who art ever nigh,
Guarding with watchful eye,
To thee aloud we cry;
God save the state!'' Amen.

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