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98 INSTITUTION OE BEACO&ESSES AT KAISEBS...
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self under Ms direction . He received me with much cordiality , primitive and with a Christianity simple earnestness . From him reminding and Scotland from me of all who what I receive had we read d an to of
especial welcome , as the first visitor from come much spend less some in time its educational among them branches . My than interest in in what Kaiserswerth concerned was the the
care of the sick . This arose from my having * often heard of for conducted difficulties the hosp infant met itals with of or ragged our by medical own scho country ol men in , in while securing house we have proper of refuge in every attendants for well the
or shelter for the fallenboth , sist every ers and brothers of charity , poor , servants who faithfull of Christ y labor doing in their the dail will y of task God , " not from as the men heart pleasers . " , but as dutiesthe
the pastor Having time accompanied being selected 1 to the the me deaconess to hosp it , ital and who as introduced the superintends sphere me as of its a my arrangements " sister" , for .
nursery By her , I where was placed I remaine as an d extra for a week assistant , affcer in which the children absent I was ' s removed ward sister or
The to clock one course of the of the women the hour day ' when s wards was all much to the fill deaconesses the the p same lace of were in an both calle cases d ; " betwe . Five en . "
owas five and besides six they having dressed a , made little their time own for private beds and devotion arranged . At their six
rooms o ' clock , each repaired to her post , and the night watchers retired from theirs First and second breakfasts for patients and nursesdinners
, and and suppers nihtadministration for both , with arrang of medicine ing the * or beds dressings and wards in surg for day ical
other cases , hosp filled g itals , up much for the of sick the day Instead as it would of iving have particulars been occup on ied these in
points , I shall only speak of . the rules and g practices which are not found elsewhereand which distinguish the institution at
Kaiserswerth from ordinary , hospitals with regard to the patients , and from convents so far as the sisters are concerned . is
It is recognised in most occupations that a period of training tions requisite to this before princi its p duties le are can met be with efficientl in some y discharged cases eminentl , such . as If teaching excep the
necessity incompetency and works of of the or benevolence rule distaste , as , on and , all these consequentl sides excep are tions seen y of failure instances . y of The prove manifest be sacred
office of deaconessor " servant of the church , " is not held to one of those for which , a mere inclination will qualify ; a period of probation is therefore appointed before the name is given , or all the
from herself of dutie moral s her and as medical conduct a resp probationer onsibilitie attendant from , her must s un pastor these dertaken present , and as . a well a certificate Every read as iness one one of to of , on work good baptism presenting neither health and
; , for soul money and in nor the for reputation souls of others , but for , are Christ the ' s onl king y means dom in of her being own
98 Institution Oe Beaco&Esses At Kaisebs...
98 INSTITUTION _OE BEACO _& ESSES AT KAISEBSWEETH .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), April 1, 1859, page 98, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01041859/page/26/
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