[Congressional Record Volume 147, Number 70 (Monday, May 21, 2001)]
[House]
[Page H2338]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                  TRIBUTE TO REVEREND JOSEPH SYLVESTER

  (Mr. DAVIS of Illinois asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. DAVIS of Illinois. Madam Speaker, I rise to pay tribute to 
Reverend Joseph Sylvester of my community, who passed away last week 
and was funeralized over the weekend.
  I pay tribute to him because he was an outstanding religious and 
civic leader who built an edifice in the heart of the hood, as we would 
call it, but who understood that the doors of the church had to open 
both ways: inside so that people could come in and be nurtured, but 
then outside so people can go out and take their spirituality to their 
neighborhood, by developing shelters, providing food, providing for 
people who are hungry, disavowed, those individuals who were most in 
need, reaching the unreachables and the untouchables.
  So we extend our condolences to his family and to the Landmark 
Missionary Baptist Church and trust that their new pastor, Reverend 
Fields, will be able to carry on his tradition.

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