[Congressional Record Volume 154, Number 8 (Friday, January 18, 2008)]
[House]
[Page H351]
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:
  Forty years ago, President Lyndon Johnson said: ``This I do believe. 
The dream of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. has not died with him. People 
who are white, people who are black, must and will now join together as 
never in the past to let all the forces of divisiveness know that 
America shall not be ruled by the bullet but only by the ballot of a 
free and just nation.''
  Lord our God, keep the dream of Dr. King alive in another generation 
of Americans. Bring an end to violence as the way to settle our 
differences and our difficulties.
  May the gospel he preached and the message he brought to the world 
inspire all citizens, especially politicians and military, to become 
agents of reconciliation, nation building, and peace.
  This we ask, calling upon Your holy name. Amen.

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