[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 12]
[House]
[Page 16742]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 PRAYER

  The Chaplain, the Reverend James David Ford, D.D., offered the 
following prayer:
  For our prayer this day, let us use the words of Isaac Watts:
  O God, our help in ages past, our hope for years to come, our shelter 
from the stormy blast, and our eternal home.
  Before the hills in order stood, or earth received its frame, from 
everlasting you are God, to endless years the same.
  Time, like an ever-rolling stream, soon bears us all away; we fly 
forgotten, as a dream, dies at the opening day.
  O God, our help in ages past, our hope for years to come, still be 
our guard while troubles last, and our eternal home. Amen.

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