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Deaconesses in Europe and their lessons for America / by Jane M. Bancroft ; with an introduction by Edward G. Andrews.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bancroft, Jane M. (Jane Marie), 1847-1932.
- Series:
- Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO): Women: Transnational Networks.
- Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO): Women: Transnational Networks
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Deaconesses.
- Women in church work.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (4 unnumbered pages, 264 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Hunt & Eaton ; Cincinnati : Cranston & Stowe, 1889.
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- The diaconate
- Deaconesses in the early church
- Deaconesses from the twelfth to the nineteenth centuries
- Flidner, the restorer of the office of deaconess
- The institutions at Kaiserswerth
- The regulations at Kaiserswerth and the duties and services of the deaconesses
- Other establishments on the continent
- Deaconesses in German Methodism
- Deaconesses in Paris
- Deaconesses in England
- Mildmay institutions
- Deaconesses in Scotland
- The deaconess cause in America
- The means of training and the field of work for deaconesses in America
- Objections met and suggestions offered.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Reproduction of the original from the Miriam Y. Holden Collection, Princeton University.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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