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100 INSTITUTION OF DEACONESSES AT KAISER...
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text verse from and every ht part out of to tlie enforce Bible what was had referred been laid to b down y chap , to ter show and
the unity , soug of Scripture , or the connection of one doctrine with another . Besides these lessons , one hour a week , known as the
" doctor ' s hour" was set aside for instruction in all that belongs to rooms the tending the of , lication the sick . of The simple prop medicines er ventilation or treatment and lighting of acci of
-, app of dents illness , the , suitable and the food proper or mode beverage of prep for arin different g them , kinds was exp or lained stages ,
accompanied by an examination on what had been previously taug In ht . addition to these advantagesthe arrangements of the
house included an hour each day of , out-door exercise for each nurse . This was either taken in the garden , where the children
mi to converse g those ht be who with amused were , or b , y cared or going a chosen for into out the companion of village the house on selected some . To errand to comp walk of lete mercy and the
idea ing and of a evening Christian for household familworshi , all who and were on able Sunday assembled nearl morn y all
y p , attended church . On that day each had it in her power to secure some time for retirementas well as for a walk in the country . It
must be statedthat in order , to make all this possible , two sisters were associated , in wardor rather in every duty ; following
the example of John every the Baptist , , who sent _ttvo disciples to inquire whether Jesus were the Christand of our Saviour himself , when
he sent out his disciples by twos , to cast out devils . Thus all would alternately take advantage of the arrangements made individual for them friend ; no
ward was ever without an attendant , and many - perienced ships were the formed isolation among of the heart sisters which , -who had mi broug ght otherwise ht some have of them
exfrom life was their varied parental by jubile homes e days to , I in Kaiserswerth the celebration . was The of usuall which uniformit include some y of of d the sisters always sharedand as a strangery
in the invitations given . , These , festivals occurred , either on the his some Sabbath assi sacred stants evenings at their , when or frugal on four the evening or day five when joined meal each , the which branch pastor was of ' s followed famil the institu y and by
tion celebrated songs its ; anniversary , or perhaps the birth-day of some of its inmates
. When I add to all this , that neither during the period of probation nor afterwards is a deaconess bound to remain longer than she
conventual chooses , it will nuns be seen or even how of essentiall those y whom her position we know differs as from Sisters that of of
Charity . No vow obliges her to remain when her heart is no willing longer in offering the work . , Should and when her she own has feelings therefore make ceased her resi to make gn her a
_jjost alone ; , thoug should h she strong be called and _surrotinded home by b dut y y affectionate to parents children now feeble when or
100 Institution Of Deaconesses At Kaiser...
100 INSTITUTION OF DEACONESSES AT KAISERSWERTH ,
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), April 1, 1859, page 100, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01041859/page/28/
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