[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 4]
[House]
[Page 5772]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 PRAYER

  The Chaplain, the Reverend Daniel P. Coughlin, offered the following 
prayer:
  Together, let us take the words of Daniel Webster, which hang high 
over the Speaker's chair, and make them our own solemn prayer today.
  Lord God, let our age be the age of improvement. In a day of peace, 
let us advance the arts of peace and the works of peace.
  Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, 
build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see 
whether we also, in our day and our generation, may not perform 
something to be remembered.
  Let us cultivate a true spirit of union and harmony. Let our 
conception be charged and enlarged to the circle of our duties. Let us 
extend our ideas over the whole of the vast field in which we are 
called to act. Let our object be our country, our whole country, and 
nothing but our country.
  And by Your blessing, Almighty God, may that country, itself, become 
a vast and splendid monument, not of oppression and terror, but of 
wisdom, of peace, and of liberty upon which the world may gaze with 
admiration forever.
  Amen.

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