[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 150 (2004), Part 19]
[House]
[Page 25466]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 PRAYER

  The Chaplain, the Reverend Daniel P. Coughlin, offered the following 
prayer:
  At this time of the year from across the world arises Handel's Song 
of Isaiah's text. Today the same vigorous words are laid tenderly, like 
the music, upon this House of Representatives:
  ``Comfort my people. Give comfort to my people, says your God. Cry 
out to the nation that her warfare is accomplished; that her iniquity 
is pardoned. The glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh 
shall see it together: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.''
  Lord, may this seasonal song strengthen Your people in their desire 
for lasting peace, and may justice and right judgment in this Chamber 
be a comfort to Your people now and forever. Amen.

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