[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 1]
[House]
[Page 1292]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 PRAYER

  The Chaplain, the Reverend Daniel P. Coughlin, offered the following 
prayer:
  Almighty God and Father of all, yesterday this Nation and the world 
quickened the living legacy of a great American and citizen of the 
world, the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
  May the Members of Congress and all Americans rededicate ourselves to 
his clarion call to work toward the Beloved Community he envisioned 
both at home and abroad.
  Help us, precious Lord, to dissolve all prejudicial thinking and take 
practical steps to build peace rooted in equal justice.
  At this hour of uncertainty, Lord, fashion leaders whose actions 
spring from the inherent counsel of Dr. King's living legacy. In 
charting the course for the national stability of Iraq, let Dr. King's 
dream of little black children walking hand and hand with little white 
children come true for little Shi'a, Sunni, Kurdish, Christian and 
Jewish children. From the southern plains around Basra to the northern 
plateaus of Ninnevah, someday soon let them sing: ``Free at last. Thank 
God Almighty. We are free at last.'' Amen.

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