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NOTICES OF BOOKS. 415
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womenone of younger . Widows were preferred , and especially widows who training had sm been ath , in and mothers all human counsel , that affections . * ( T to he quote terms , they the ' mi w g words id ht owhood know of ' how Tertullian and to ' diaconate aid , ) others ' having , ' however both had by a ,
ypy The were variousl fixed appear f at to sixty have , fifty been , and used f forty for proved , the with office discretion a dispensing indifferentl The power y . question in ages the Bishop of age , in would case y
Their d oubtless a y general oun de ger pend functions woman , in some o deg connected ree , on the with duties . the required nursing of of these the sick women the .
reference visiting of to captives , , and of their the were exercise own sex . of These hospitality officers . But were they door had -keepers especial , for persons
the catechists women , f the preserved female conver order ts ; at the y attended times of public hem at worshi their p ; p they tism , were and
in clergy whole ably certain , . according The . cannot cases numbers to were doubt the of a that den such medium sity ' vast ministering and of number exi communication gencies -widows of conversions of ' the probab between population ly in varied the them . e , consider arl and On y ages the th & -
throug were due we h families to this in source all ranks , and a of th society at it d . iffused Thoug and h pur th e and Deaconesses l spiritual ied influence in ld n the ot
teach p ministration rivate publicl ministr ' y w , y they of t n h could e mad word e be an ; ' dili and am gentl ple it return may y indeed to unceasing Christianity be trul y y occup sa for id what that ' Chris y this
tianity did for her . '" PAROCHIAL . _FEMALE _DIACONATE . p it acceptance robab is " We the ly have most that in said Eng primitive which nothing land . is form It most as was yet of urgentl indeed of the the organization y parochial p rom needed inent , female ly we and before are most diaconate considering our likel attention , y which to , so find , as at is
times to remark Kaiserswerth work at in the that , parishes invitation . they From , sometime thence of directed benevolent also s by to a the large work societies desire number in of sub . the ordination But of parochial Deaconesses in all to cases ministers the are we parochial s , ent should some out
werth clergy . , and We to should make are reports also observe to them that as well they as are to alway the authorities s sent , if at possible Kaisers , at - that should have her
l emp sister east loyment two -laborer toge in , t who her some , is and hosp occup that ital ied it or is in almshouse generall the parish y , arranged . and By thus these provide means ht one lead a the home to distraction for and her
loss of' coffee of time -parties are avoided , ' and the and social the in gravity tercourse suitable which to mi serious g official gossi work p is more easily , retained . In , a recent number of this of the Armen diac -und onate Kranhen illustrated Frennd b
is cases of a view very drawn in lull the from account assistance actual of the experience theory iven to , and the showing clergyman parochial its in utility seeking in , various out cases points of y g
in temporal tlaeir , own and houses spiritual in distress teaching , in poor detecting women imposture how to nurse , in attending invalids and the how sick
to operating cook , in with promoting charitable , the associations regular attendance , in superintendin of children g sewing at school irls -scho in , ols service in and comendingschoolsin exercising a good influence over -up
and and in in meeting factories - , the , especiall Roman y have as Catholic regards the elements Sisters the great of of danger discord Charity grown of made on Sunday their read g amusement own b ground s , , _, _,
Institution that of a is mixed , in families that marriage we which have . It actuall is , however y seen the , in parochial connexion Deaconess with the in y _Strasburg the y means midst Mttlhausentown
manufactures well of her known work , — to b not many which indeed of they our at Strasburg have readers passed as itself a , when large , but beg at uninteresting inning to be , p weary a lace busy , full of the of y
long " In railway this p - lace , journey are from twelve Paris Strasburg to Basle . Deaconesses—seven , working in the
Notices Of Books. 415
NOTICES OF BOOKS . 415
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1862, page 415, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081862/page/55/
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