[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 9]
[House]
[Page 12811]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 PRAYER

  The Reverend Dr. Craig Barnes, Senior Pastor, National Presbyterian 
Church, Washington D.C., offered the following prayer:
  Let us pray:
  O God, we ask that You would be gracious to the leadership of our 
land this day. Give them the wisdom of Your spirit that they may find 
their way through the complex issues we now confront. Give them the 
courage to hold to what they believe to be right, and the humility to 
discover more truth than they have.
  But most of all, O God, we pray that You will give these leaders Your 
own great dreams for the future of our people, that we may participate 
in the kingdom You would build here.
  All this we ask in the name of the Lord, whose way we prepare. Amen.

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