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414 NOTICES OF BOOKS.
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Dr . Howson at various periods , now for tlie first time brought intoa collected form and illustrated by notes . It is curious to mark
the caution of the earlier treatises , compared -with the open avowal of opinions expressed in those of more * recent date . It is a proof
how much better the public mind is able to bear the discussion . In December , 1858 , at a meeting called at Liverpool to consider
subjects connected with public education , Dr . Howson read the treatise marked No . 1 , in the Appendix , C ( Sunday Schools and
Deaconesses . " His next publication was an article in the Quarterly Review for September , I 860 , the result of a visit to the Continent _,,
and the personal examination of the foreign Protestant Deaconess Institutions . This was followed by a pamphlet in 1861 " The
Help of Women in English Parishes , " and by articles , in the Christian Observer upon " The Protestant Deaconess Institution in
Paris" and " Deaconesses of the Primitive Church , * " and the book closes with a very interesting contribution from a Russian _,
lady , Madame Boutakoff , — " Sisters of Mercy in the Greek Church , " —descriptive of the institution under the protection of the
Grand-Duchess Helen , and which , during the Crimean war , sent nurses to the Russian army , who emulated the devotedness of Florence
_Nightingale and her followers . Since the publication of this bookDr . Howson has been carrying
on the discussion , and we consider , ourselves fortunate in being permitted to insert in this Journal the paper read at the late
Meeting of the Association for the Promotion of Social Science . Later still , at the Church Congress held at Oxfordwe heard from
one present at the proceedings , of the deep impression , made by _, Dr . Howson ' s paper upon the audience , and of the lively discussion
which ensued thereon . The sanction of so large a meeting , at which so many of the most learned and active men in the kingdom
were present , is a remarkable sign of the times , and will give a strong impulse to the movement .
In reading Dr . Howson ' s book , we had marked numerous passages , but we feel extracts will convey little of the spirit in
¦ which the work has been compiled . The observations upon German Deaconesses , on the extension of " Mothers' Homes" in connexion
with Kaiserswerth , the rise of similar institutions in all parts of the world , the progress made in our country , the best method of aiding
the movement in all its practical details , —all these subjects would prove most valuable to our readersbut to the book itself we must
refer them , contenting ourselves with , the following extracts only , the first of which sums up in a few words the characteristics of the
Primitive Diaconate . from " E the piphanius Presbyters says that in that these they female were ministers not allowed were to broadl officiate y distinguished litur _^ icall
go They throug were h , ho p w er ev iod er , , formall probation y se . t apart They t seem o thei to r office have , been and were divided _required into two to y _.
classes , not very precisely distinguished from one another , one class of older
414 Notices Of Books.
414 NOTICES OF BOOKS .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1862, page 414, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081862/page/54/
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