[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 15]
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             CONGRESSIONAL RECORD 

                United States
                 of America


September 9, 1999


          HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES--Thursday, September 9, 1999

  The House met at 10 a.m.
  The Chaplain, Reverend James David Ford, D.D., offered the following 
prayer:
  We pray, Almighty God, that our minds and hearts would be open to the 
gifts of the spirit so that our daily experiences are not only the 
necessary duties that must be done, but that we would see more clearly 
the blessings of the spirit. Grant us new insight so we behold the 
gifts of wonder and beauty in Your creation and the marvelous gifts of 
love and grace and peace. Give us, we pray, a new vision of the meaning 
of justice that deals with the needs of every person and helps bring us 
all together in respect and dignity. This is our earnest prayer. Amen.

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