. The deaconess calling : its past and its present. ks of love, performed as anevidence of faith towards Him who first loved us. If God hasgranted, that in the tissue of our churchly present, the threads ofthe female diaconate shall shine more and more brightly, we^willgladly receive this as a kindly and hopeful sign, that the old age ofthe Church is to be like its youth,—that Church which the Lordknows as His own and against which the gates of hell shall notprevail. It is not for us to ask what may be Gods thoughts in the — 124 — future, with regard to the deaconess work, but to pray that in
. The deaconess calling : its past and its present. ks of love, performed as anevidence of faith towards Him who first loved us. If God hasgranted, that in the tissue of our churchly present, the threads ofthe female diaconate shall shine more and more brightly, we^willgladly receive this as a kindly and hopeful sign, that the old age ofthe Church is to be like its youth,—that Church which the Lordknows as His own and against which the gates of hell shall notprevail. It is not for us to ask what may be Gods thoughts in the — 124 — future, with regard to the deaconess work, but to pray that in thedeaconesses and their callino;, the Woixl of Christ may throughgrace be abundantly fullfilled : „I am the true vine, and ray father is the husbandman. Everybranch in Me that bcareth not fruit He taketh away : and everybranch that beareth fruit, He purgeth it, that it may bring forthmore fruit. „I am the vine, ye are the branches : He that abideth in Me,and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit : for vnthout Meye can do nothing/. THE MARY J. DREXEL HOME AND PHILADELPHIAM0THERHQU2E OF DEACONESSES. More than forty years ago the first efforts were made in theLutheran Church in this country to transplant the Deaconessesfrom Kaiserswerth to America. The Rev. W. A, Passavant, pas-tor of the English Lutheran Church in Pittsburg, Pa., and found-er of numerous charitable institutions, hospitals and orphanshomes in Pittsburg, Rochester, Pa., New York, Chicago, Milwau-kee, and Jacksonville, called to this country the Rev. TheodoreFliedner, who arrived in the summer of 1849 with four Kaisers-werth Sisters, who took charge of the Pittsburg Infirmary, one ofwhom is still living at Pittsburg. In 1884 another colony of German Deaconesses was trans-planted from the Fatherland to American soil. This time themovement originated with the leaders of the German Hospital inPhiladelphia. Its President and chief benefactor, Mr. John , with his friend, Consul Charles H. Meye
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