[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 1]
[House]
[Page 1083]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]


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           HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES--Friday, January 12, 2007




  The House met at 9 a.m.
  The Chaplain, the Reverend Daniel P. Coughlin, offered the following 
prayer:
  Lord God, Creator and Author of the Sabbath, bless the approaching 
weekend.
  Lord, fill our airways, our newspapers, our conversations, and the 
minds of our children with the stories, the dreams, and the words of 
the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.
  Fifty years ago he said: ``I am convinced that love is the most 
desirable power in the world. It is not an expression of impractical 
idealism, but of practical realism. Far from being the pious injunction 
of a utopian dreamer, love is an absolute necessity for the survival of 
civilization.
  ``To return hate for hate does nothing but intensify the existence of 
evil in the universe. Someone must have sense enough and religion 
enough to cut off the chain of hate and evil, and this can be done 
through love.''
  May these words, Lord, live on in the minds and hearts of America now 
and forever. Amen.

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