Deaconesses in Europe and their Lessons for America

"Success and glory are the children of hard work and God's favor," is the inscription upon the tablet erected in Christ's Hospital, London, to the memory of Sir Henry Maine.

To learn the first facts about deaconesses in England, we must go back to the early days of the Puritans. In 1576, under Queen Elizabeth, about sixty non-conformist ministers of...

Valuable suggestions will be obtained from the study of every successful deaconess institution, and none will perhaps furnish more practical models for American Methodism than d...

It was no part of the plan of this book, when first projected, to treat of the deaconess cause as it is developing within the United States of America, but gradually, through th...

When in Paris we visited the deaconess establishment on the Rue de Reuilly, and had the pleasure, ever to be remembered, of seeing the institution in all its workings under the...

The deaconesses of the early Church differed from those of modern times, as we have seen, in being directly responsible to a church society, and in belonging to a church congreg...

Fliedner saw clearly that if the office of deaconess were to be planted in the Church there must be soil suitable to nourish it: in other words, there must be an institution fou...

In a book of these dimensions no exhaustive historical account can be given of all the developments of the deaconess movement in the various countries on the Continent. Only a f...

To understand the position of the deaconess with respect to the modern Church we must know something of the relation in which she stood to the early Church. Concisely as may be...

When Fliedner went on his second tour to England he extended his journey to Scotland, and ventured to Edinburgh at a time when the cholera was sweeping with fearful ravages thro...

The first years of the present century were sad years for Germany. There was a life-and-death struggle with an all-powerful conqueror to preserve existence as a nation. The Germ...

The regulations in daily use at Kaiserswerth are based on those that Fliedner drew up in the early days of the institution. They have been adopted with few alterations by the la...

During these seven centuries whenever there arose a reviving spirit of true love to God, whether within the Church of Rome or in any of the churches formed from reforming elemen...

The good results of the work of deaconesses in the other Protestant bodies of Germany doubtless had their influence upon German Methodism. As far back as 1868 in Wurtemberg, and...

In the ruins of the old cities of Greece and Rome we find buildings that were used for public purposes of all kinds--forums, theaters, amphitheaters, circuses, and temples of wo...

Objection that deaconesses resemble Catholic nuns--Their influence--Numbers in different orders--Order of Charles-- Objection to garb--Its advantages--Objection to the life answ...

Efforts for the restoration of the office of deaconess made by Klönne--Amalie Sieveking--Von Stein--Count von der Recke-- Fliedner--His childhood--Youth--Student life--Pastorate...

Early beginnings--The Puritans--Cambridge Platform--Southey's complaint--Mrs. Fry--Fliedner--Florence Nightingale--Agnes Jones--Distinction between "sister" and "deaconess"-- In...

Deaconess Home on Rue de Reuilly--Situation--School-- Hospital--House of Correction--Preparatory school-- Instruction--Prison mission--Mademoiselle Dumas--Expenses of house--Its...