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Excerpt from Deaconesses, Biblical, Early Church, European, American: With the Story of the Chicago Training School, for City, Home and Foreign Missions, and the Chicago Deaconess Home Wendell Phillips had a famous lecture on the Lost Arts but in it did not include that greatest of lost arts in the religious world - viz: the work of Deaconesses. That the Church could ever have fallen away from an applica tion of Christianity so helpful, comforting and blessed, having enjoyed it once, furnishes proof Sadly significant of the human alloy that so grievously (dis)tempers its gold. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Deaconesses, Biblical, Early Churches, European, American, With the Story of How the Work Began in the Chicago Training School, for City, Home, and Foreign Missions, and the Chicago Deaconess Home Wendell Phillips had a famous lecture on the Lost Arts but in it did not include that greatest of lost arts in the religious world - viz: the work of Deaconesses. That the Church could ever have fallen away from an applica tion of Christianity so helpful, comforting and blessed, having enjoyed it once, furnishes proof sadly significant of the human alloy that so grievously (dis)tempers its gold. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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