[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 150 (2004), Part 9]
[House]
[Page 11750]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 PRAYER

  The Reverend John Boyles, National Capital Presbytery, Washington, 
D.C., offered the following prayer:
  O Lord God, we come before You on this day to ask that You would be 
with all here today as servants of Your will, and that of this Nation's 
people, in giving honor for service to country, this land of the free. 
And strengthen all here today in the work of this body, to establish 
steadfast and righteous rules of law to guide and direct the way of 
this Nation.
  O Lord God, that here would be frontiers of freedom just as there 
were in foreign fields on beachheads of liberation which are remembered 
and honored in these days.
  O Lord God, before You, and gathered here, we are met to lift up to 
You and remember those who have given of themselves in highest service 
to this Nation. O Lord, You have been our dwelling place in all 
generations and now this House, this Chamber would prepare to receive 
under its dome, a hallowed place of honor for one who served as highest 
leader of this Nation. Prepare here now, O Lord, those assembled to 
give honor for service and dedication to America of Ronald Reagan, that 
in honoring his service, that the service to Nation given by those here 
in this House might be rededicated and strengthened; that in honoring 
the grace and goodness of a man who served his Nation's people, that 
all here would be renewed in their dedication to the good of all, and 
the building up of all, and even then knowing, before You, O God, that 
if this earthly house of a tabernacle were desolved that there is a 
building of God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. 
May you, O God, bless the work of our hands here today. Amen.

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