Lutheran Deaconess Hospital School of Nursing - Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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Largest number of deaconesses that had been together at home, at one time, for several years

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, IQ? J N fzfigrt .x xg Qs lMA1 r.25- The Deaconess Calling 'LVerily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me. fMatt. 25:4O.j The Christian Church must let her light shine before men, that is, she shows it to them, to testify by word and deed, of the mercy of God, their Saviour. And this testimony must be prefeminently one of deeds, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in Heaven. fMatt. 5:16.j Especially is the duty laid upon the Church, and the ability given her, continually to exercise in mercy toward her own members, for those who become believers, Nbeing many are one body in Christ and every one members one of another. K Romans 12:15 . j It is needful then, that the members, Speaking the truth in love may grow up into Him in all things, which is the head, even Christ. From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted hy that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love. fEpl1. 4:l5fl6.j It follows then that the Christian Church, in a matter as closely concerning it, as does the exercise of ministering love, must have its fixed rules. In the eyes of the world as well as of the congregation, it must strive to render the practice of mercy as nearly as possible, and this is accomplished in the same proportion in which private and public, free and officially organized benevolence supplement each other. Here also the peculiar gifts of woman for the ministry of mercy will find due recognition. The Christian Church, beside other forms of the diaconate, cmmot dispense with the female diaconate fthe deaconessesj- which is an officially regulated service of mercy, exercised by women, for Christe sake, among the poor, the sick, the wretched and the needy of every description, within and without the congregation. Only when the Page Seven