[Congressional Record Volume 147, Number 19 (Monday, February 12, 2001)]
[House]
[Page H255]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                                 PRAYER

  The Chaplain, the Reverend Daniel P. Coughlin, offered the following 
prayer:
  Lord God, today this Nation honors one of its great Presidents, 
Abraham Lincoln. His was a time of great civil strife. His words tried 
to heal a torn Nation ripped apart by war and the fact that ``one-
eighth of the whole population were colored slaves.''
  Again today we pray with Lincoln's sentiments for greater civility 
and equal justice for all.
  He reminds us: ``The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous 
altogether. So with malice toward none, with charity for all, with 
firmness in the right as You, O God, give us to see the right, let us 
strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the Nation's wounds, 
to care for those who shall have borne the battle and for widows and 
orphans, to do all that we can to achieve and cherish a just and 
lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.''
  We pray this now and forever. Amen.

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