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Olympia Brown: The Old Testament...

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The Old Testament teems with prophecies of the Messiah, but nowhere is it intimated that that Messiah is to stand as a God to be worshipped. He is to bring peace on earth, to build up the waste places -- to comfort the broken-hearted. . .

Source: Sermon, c. 13 Jan. 1895, Mukwonago, Wisc./ ( in Olympia Brown, An Autobiography, ed. by Gwendolen B. Willis, 1960; published in Annual Journal of the Universalist Historical Society, vol. 4, 1963).
-- Olympia Brown, ( 1835-1900), US suffragist, ministero; She was the first American woman to be ordained by full denominational authority of the Universalist church.


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