Life and letters of WAPassavant, DD. . te carried away by your fathersuntiring activities in the work of charity. As Mr. Passavant was destined to become the AmericanFliedner and was to introduce the order of deaconesses intoAmerica, we give here his own account of the restoration ofthe office of deaconess and of the work of the sisters as wefind it in the missionary of April, 1848: We cannot better describe the restoration of this officeto the Christian church in modern times than by quoting thelanguage of the Chevalier Bunsen, Prussian Embassador tothe Court of St. James, at the first public
Life and letters of WAPassavant, DD. . te carried away by your fathersuntiring activities in the work of charity. As Mr. Passavant was destined to become the AmericanFliedner and was to introduce the order of deaconesses intoAmerica, we give here his own account of the restoration ofthe office of deaconess and of the work of the sisters as wefind it in the missionary of April, 1848: We cannot better describe the restoration of this officeto the Christian church in modern times than by quoting thelanguage of the Chevalier Bunsen, Prussian Embassador tothe Court of St. James, at the first public meeting of a Germanhospital in London, The resolution before the meeting was,that the necessary steps be taken to procure the services ofseveral deaconesses from the training institution in Prussia, inthe capacity of matron and nurses for the new hospital. Inproposing this resolution, Mr. Bunsen observed, That therehad existed since the year of 1836, at Kaiserswerth, nearDiisseldorf, on the Rhine, an institution, which, as it seemed,. EOME AGAIN. 177 has given to the Protestant churches the blessing of one ofthe most useful foundations in Christendom. It was in theyear above named, that Pastor Fliedner, renewed the ancientand apostolic institution of deaconesses. He found such dea-conesses existing in the ancient Christian congregations forrelieving the poor and sick. There were (he thought) poorand sick brethren and sisters in the Christian community now,and why should there not be Christian nurses for them, actingin the same spirit as the deaconesses of old? And why, if theyare to be found, should they not be called deaconesses as inthe time of the apostles ? The deaconesses of old made no should ours? Is not (thought pastor Fliedner) our churchbuilt upon the principles of inward faith, and should thatprinciple not be able to produce the works of self-sacrifice andcharity, without external means, calculated to be binding uponthe mind, to compel acts which can only b
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