[Congressional Record Volume 151, Number 142 (Tuesday, November 1, 2005)]
[House]
[Pages H9439-H9440]
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, the Founders of this Nation were not merely reacting to the 
problems of their day. They lived with the conviction that something 
totally new was happening.
  The great seal of this Nation presented to the world a new order of 
the ages. And lest anyone forget where this all came from, the Founders 
added to the seal, ``He,'' presumably You, Lord God, ``has favored our 
beginnings.''
  Eternal as You are, enlighten the Members of Congress today to 
understand that the challenges to be faced today are as old as society: 
poverty,

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education, health, stability, and peace. All must be looked at with the 
freshness of new ideas and contemporary resources. But any attempt to 
be free of the past is an unworthy illusion, and any attempt to be free 
of the future is a dangerous mistake. You tell us, ``Sufficient for the 
day is the evil thereof,'' both now and forever. Amen.

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