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IN WORKS OF CHARITY. 363
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One Great Benefit Of Tliis Association I...
controversy between Church-people and Dissenters , or between Protestants and Roman Catholics ? I think there is no likelihood of
such a result . When we are avowedly on neutral ground , we are free to state our views frankly and strongly . Such statement
promotes very mutual understanding ; and meanwhile we keep ourselves entirely free for carrying on controversy elsewhere . The friendly
debates on Education at the Glasgow Meeting may be referred to as an illustration tending to dissipate any fears on this ground .
The mode of conducting this inquiry would be by intrusting to competent hands the task of collecting facts from those who are
practically connected with feminine ministrations of the charitable kind . It is presumed that Homan Catholics would furnish statistics
of their religious orders , and describe the methods according to which they conduct their operations . Almost every large town has
Its Bible-women ; and nothing would be more easy than to collect full information concerning themand to record it year by yearv
, . Liondon at least has its Parochial Mission-Women ; and the _^ Deaconess-system now is not only made a subject of active
discussion , but is being brought to the test of actual experiment . Each will develop some new experience in works of this kind , which .
year might be made widely and generally useful . And to turn from the * more exclusively religious side of the question , there is muclt
reason for recording and examining whatever improvements take the place establishment in Hospital-nursing of systems , and of whatever District- results nursing are in found Towns to or follow the
, Training of nurses for the Country : nor are the lessons less valuable which grow out of the experience of woman _' s varied
service in Reformatories , Penitentiaries , Orphan-Homes , and Prisons .
It is impossible to enumerate these subjects without being reminded that the greater part of such service is of very recent
_growth , and , at the same time , that the materials for a very copious inquiry are rapidly accumulating . If there were any doubt of the
wisdom of treating this subject as a distinct and specific field , I am persuaded that a little perseverance would soon justify it and prove
its "usefulness . A large number of most interesting and important questions would arise in the process , —as to peculiar difficulties
connected with this kind of ministry ; as to the need and the mode of training those who are to be engaged in it , * as to the best methods
of arranging their work * as to lodging , dress , payment , phraseology , and various minute details , the importance of which is realized only
on a minute examination . The discussion of such subjects in the sp could irit not which fail usuall to be y of prevails signal advantage in . the meetings towards of the this gradual Association forma- ,
tion of opinion , in regard to the charitable service of women , and towards the efficient progress and safe organization of the service
itself . . This field of inquiry is the more earnestly to bo commended to
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In Works Of Charity. 363
IN WORKS OF CHARITY . 363
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1862, page 363, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081862/page/3/
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