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INSTITUTION OF DEACONESSES AT KAISERSWER...
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admitted into Kaiserswerth . JProm six months to three years are allowed for probation . Cases have occurred where manifest
unfitness for the office has been seen or felt after a stay of a few weeks tution or months follows ; _"when . This this practice happens and , an the earl fixing y withdrawal 1 of an age from before the insti and
after which deaconesses cannot , be admitted , are both very useful rules for excluding unfit members of the society . In general the
period of probation is followed by an examination by the pastor , and if the deaconess is found prepared for her work , she is set
apart for it before the assembled church . The especial province in which each is to work is determined according to preference or
recognised capabilities ; some who are active , strong , and only fitted for household work , are engaged in baking , washing , cooking ,
etc ., while others ( and these form the larger proportion ) are the nurses of the sick . Some are teaching sisters for the nursery or the
nurses , and one had her post in the laboratory compounding medicinesin which she was assisted by an English lady then passing
, through her probation , and who has since , I believe , g _* one to Smyrna to a similar post . But whatever be the office assigned , all are
recognised as members of the same family , stones in the same building ; each sphere of labor is necessary for the proper working of
the whole , and each is recognised as having offered herself as a living sacrifice , holy and acceptable unto Grod .
All alike have the benefit of hours set apart for instruction . This consists of lessons in readingwriting , and accounts for those who
, , require them , and in church history and scripture knowledge for all . The latter are given periodically by the pastor or his assistant ,
" Herr Candidat" as he is called ; but the daily lessons in these departments , as well as in the others , were given by a young lady of
distinguished parentage and superior education . This lady had come to the institution as soon as her age allowed her to do so , and had
repeatedly returned to it after visits to her friends , prizing more than ever its sacred duties , and finding in the worldly attractions which her
home offered her in abundance , no compensation for the calm and holy enjoyments she had at Kaiserswerth . It was very interesting
to be present at these lessons . The class varied in number from a little below to a little above twenty . Each learner had her Bible ,
and each bestowed serious attention on the instruction given by one much younger than many of her pupils , but whose countenance
beaming with " faith , hope , and love , " told that she had even now an acquaintance with the " rest that remaineth for the people of
God , " and that the " peace of God , which passeth all understanding , " was in her soul . If Scripture history or biography engaged her , all
its scenes were brought vividly before the imagination , and it was shown how its facts were " ensamples written for our admonition ;"
did Christian experience form the subject of the day's lesson , every winding of the human heart seemed unravelled and illustrated by
Scripture ; and i £ the lesson was on Christian doctrine , text after
Institution Of Deaconesses At Kaiserswer...
_INSTITUTION OF DEACONESSES AT KAISERSWERTH . 99
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), April 1, 1859, page 99, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01041859/page/27/
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