[1] Der Diakonissenberuf nach seiner Vergangenheit und Gegenwart. Emil Wacker, Gütersloh, 1888, p. 196.
[2] McClintock and Strong’s Cyclopedia, vol. iv, art. “Hospitals.” The editors give as authority for this statement, Augustine, De Civit. Dei, i, xxii, c. 8.
[3] Theodor Fliedner, Kurzer Abriss seines Lebens. Kaiserswerth, 1886, p. 60.
[4] The Bitter Cry of Outcast London, pp. 3–10.
[5] Modern Cities, by S. L. Loomis, New York, 1887, pp. 88, 89.
CHAPTER XV.
OBJECTIONS MET AND SUGGESTIONS OFFERED.
“Success and glory are the children of hard work and God’s favor,” is the inscription upon the tablet erected in Christ’s Hospital, London, to the memory of Sir Henry Maine.
Upon these two elements depends the future of the deaconess cause in America. We are assured of the one; will the other be forthcoming? Will the individual members of the Church give this cause their hearty support? Surely the facts that have been stated must have convinced the judgment, but perhaps there are certain prejudices to be overcome. “I fear that deaconesses too closely resemble Catholic nuns for Protestants to accept them,” says one. No; these helpful Christian women are thoroughly Protestant. Deaconesses are no Catholic institution. Wherever they have appeared they have been met by open antagonism from the Catholic Church. Witness the calumnies with which the papers of that capital have constantly assailed the deaconess home of Paris.252/248