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96 INSTITUTION OE DEACONESSES AT KATSEBS...
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In the summer of 1853 , "being about to return to Germany , I for arrange the d purpose my journey of visiting so as to at spend Kaiserswerth a couple of in days its nei at ghbourhood Dusseldorf , ,
the Institution of Protestant , Deaconesses . I expected to see there , what indeed I found , a band of sisters of charity , unfettered by
irrevocable vows , and therefore rendering-, from day to day and from year to year , a voluntary service to God . On arriving at
Kaiserswerth and applying for permission to see the institution , I ¦ was kindly received , and after a short delay a sister who could
speak English was sent to conduct me through the various buildings . These are numerous , as the institution , which began on a
very small scale , has gradually extended till the parent institution , or " Mutter Haus" -. as it is affectionately called , occupies several
houses in two parallel streets . Like many other noble and influential establishments , like Christianity itself , its beginning was
but as a small mustard seed , whence has arisen a goodly tree , bearing rich fruitand sending forth its branches far and wide .
In 1852 , one hundred , and eighty deaconesses from Kaiserswerth were at "work in different parts of Germany ; and branch institutions
exist in London , in Jerusalem , in Pittsburgh , U . S ., at Echallens , in Switzerland , and , I believe , elsewhere . Of the germ of this
nourishing growth the following account is given in a small pamphlet on the subject .
_" The at establishment Kaiserswertha of small a manufactory Roman Catholic , some town years had befor broug e the ht together general
manufacturer peace a little , colonv in of 1822 workmen , deprived , chiefl them y of Protestants the means . of The , supporting bankruptcy a pastor of the .
thi M . s Fliedner curewould being not then desert , onl them y twenty . In -two 1823 years and of 1824 age , he and travelled just entering throug on h
little Holland community and , England He to succeeded collect funds but sufficient this was to the maintain , smallest a church part of in the his
results and his of attention his journey . having . In been England thus , turned lie became to the acquainted fact that pri with sons Mrs were . Fry but , Dusseldorfin 1826
the a school first Grerman for vice instead society of for for improving reformation prison , he disci formed pline at . He from soon , _perceived but ,
often how desolate without is the the mean situation s of subsistence of the woman is as , who it were , released violently forced prison , back into crimeWith one female criminal , with one volunteerwho came
without pay to house . join in the his cause garden , he began Between Ms , work Decemb in September eFand June , , 1833 of the , in next a small
he summer received - nine other penitents . , of whom eight had been more than once year in prison . "
Thus was the penitentiary set on foot ; to it was soon added an infant school , and shortly afterwards an hospital normal with one school patient and ,
an one nurse lum , and for lunatics a cook . have An orp all han been asy successivel lum , a added , and , are prospering asy both in the , numbers connected with y them , and in the
, success The last attendant -named on building their vari stands ous operations in the princi . pal street of the
village _; a few houses intervene between it and the hospital , behind
96 Institution Oe Deaconesses At Katsebs...
96 INSTITUTION OE DEACONESSES AT KATSEBSWEKTH .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), April 1, 1859, page 96, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01041859/page/24/
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