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, but nowhere is he spoken of as a deity.
ATTRIBUTION:
Olympia Brown (1835–1900), U.S. minister. sermon, c. Jan. 13, 1895, Mukwonago, Wisconsin; repr. In Annual Journal of the Universalist Historical Society vol. 4 (1963). Olympia Brown, An Autobiography, ed. Gwendolen B. Willis (1960).
