[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 23]
[House]
[Page 31684]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 PRAYER

  The Chaplain, the Reverend Daniel P. Coughlin, offered the following 
prayer:
  Lord God, on a November day 144 years ago, President Abraham Lincoln 
at Gettysburg National Cemetery gave the greatest and most famous 
speech ever given on American soil.
  In efforts to hold this young nation together, Lincoln addressed the 
Civil War as testing the nation, ``any nation that is conceived in 
liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all people are created 
equal.''
  Lord, let his unforgettable words dedicate us and renew us in the 
cause of freedom. Help us living to fight the unfinished work, to give 
great memory to those who gave the last full measure of their devotion 
to this Nation under God that it may have new birth of freedom, and 
that government of the people, for the people, and by the people shall 
not perish from this Earth.
  Help us, Lord, to be understanding and patient when wars begin around 
this world in the search for freedom. Help us to be supportive and 
understanding both now and forever. Amen.

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