Deaconesses in Europe and their Lessons for America

The Project Gutenberg EBook of Deaconesses in Europe, by Jane M. Bancroft This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: Deaconesses in Europe and their Lessons for America Author: Jane M. Bancroft Release Date: March 6, 2007 [EBook #20747] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DEACONESSES IN EUROPE *** Produced by Barbara Tozier, David Wilson, Bill Tozier and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net DEACONESSES IN EUROPE A N D T H E I R L E S S O N S F O R A M E R I C A B Y J A N E M . B A N C R O F T , P H . D W I T H A N I N T R O D U C T I O N B Y E D W A R D G . A N D R E W S , D . D . , L L . D . Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church “No life Can be pure in its purpose and strong in its strife, And all life not be purer and stronger thereby.” NEW YORK and CINCINNATI 1 8 9 0 IN GRATEFUL RECOGNITION, T O THE EARNEST AND DEVOTED WOMEN WHO, AS MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE ON DEACONESS WORK O F T H E W O M A N ’ S H O M E M I S S I O N A R Y S O C I E T Y , HAVE AIDED IN EXTENDING THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE DIACONATE OF WOMEN, THIS BOOK IS RESPECTFULLY B Y T H E A U T H O R . A U T H O R ’ S N O T E .