[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 116 (Monday, July 18, 2016)]
[House]
[Page H5019]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                                 PRAYER

  Rabbi Arnold E. Resnicoff, Retired Chaplain, United States Navy, 
Washington, D.C., offered the following prayer:
  O Lord who said ``Let there be light,'' we have reason still to fear 
the dark, the dark of senseless death, of murder, terror, fear, and 
strife, testing faith in a future warm and bright.
  This day, 18 July, almost 250 years ago, the Gazette in Boston 
published a patriotic hymn, ``The Liberty Song'':

     Join hand in hand, brave Americans all;
     By uniting, we stand; by dividing, we fall.

  I was in a Beirut foxhole, 1983, religious war, but U.S. foxholes 
were unique: interfaith. Side by side, some sought you through 
different religious faith traditions; others--not religious--found 
faith and common cause in freedom's call, in freedom's holy light.
  Help us, we pray, learn the truth.
  I learned that day that if more foxholes, if more people made room 
for others' faiths, we would need far fewer foxholes and have more 
cause for faith.
  So give us strength to pray. Join hand in hand, brave Americans all. 
By uniting, we stand; by dividing, we fall.
  Amen.

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