Study up for this weekend’s services
We have some special readings this weekend and to get a full meaning behind them you may want to review these biography excerpts on them.
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Of course every one knows of Harriet as the under ground railroad operative, but did you know of her as a spy and of her deep religious faith and the guidance she felt from the bible? Click on her picture to visit her Wikipedia page or here, her National Park Services page. | |
| Elizabeth Cady Stanton, a women’s suffragist. She proved that sometimes being too strictly an ideologist can hurt a movement. Click on her photo to visit her Wikipedia page. |
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Amelia Bloomer, another early women’s rights activist was also a news writer and editor, but she was also a style setter and the term for bloomers is attributed to her married name. Her picture, to the left – a younger Amelia, leads to her Wikipedia page too.
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| As an early abolitionist, after escaping her enslavement, she felt the call of God to go and preach the hope of freedom that was in her heart, after she recovered her son, the first black woman to win such a case against a white man. |
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