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    In Honor of International Women’s Day: A Suffragist’s Prayer

    March 8, 2018 In honor of International Women’s Day, we share an excerpt from a powerful and moving prayer given by Dr. Elvira S Barney at the Utah Woman Suffrage Association in Salt Lake City on Oct. 7, 1889.  Barney practiced obstetrics and medicine in Utah and was deeply committed to the work of women’s rights and religious liberty. We pray for the weak, we pray for the afflicted, and we pray for the strong, that they may be willing to help carry the burdens of the weak. We pray that thou wilt, in thine own way and time, mellow the hearts of the wicked and immoral, that thy grace…