[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 14]
[House]
[Page 19453]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]


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           HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES--Wednesday, August 4, 1999

  The House met at 10 a.m.
  The Chaplain, Reverend James David Ford, D.D., offered the following 
prayer:
  O gracious God, by whose hand we have come to be and by whose spirit 
we live each day, grant us a better understanding of the concerns and 
opportunities of our communities and our world. Keep us from any 
shallow ideas or hollow interpretations of the needs of the Nation as 
we seek to discover and appreciate and respect the ideas and 
interpretations of others. Encourage us, O God, to discover anew the 
unity and common purpose that we share with others so that justice will 
flow down as waters and righteousness like an ever flowing stream. This 
is our earnest prayer. Amen.

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