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Identifier: 02845216.425.emory.edu
Title: The history of Methodism (electronic resource)
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Hurst, J. F. (John Fletcher), 1834-1903
Subjects: Methodism
Publisher: New York : Eaton & Mains
Contributing Library: Emory University, Pitts Theology Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Emory University, Pitts Theology Library

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ch six hundred young,women are now being fitted for Christian work in the homeand foreign fields, either as missionaries, deaconesses, ornurses. Out of the Training School has grown the DeaconessMovement. In June, 1887, at the close of the ChicagoTraining School years work, a few of the young womenbanded themselves together for special and systematic work,during the vacation, under the direction of the superintend-ent and principal of the school, Mrs. Lucy Rider Meyer.They lived in the school building until the resumption of theschool session crowded them out. Having been encouragedby three months of success they determined to continue to-gether and sought a home elsewhere. The number of work-ers gradually increased and the movement began to attract the attention of the Church at large. 1174 The Order of Deaconesses 1175 Soon after the opening of the home the Rock River Con-ference approved its establishment and sent a memorial tothe General Conference of 1888 recommending- and asking
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FROM A PHOTOGRAPH Br GIBSON. MRS. LUCY RIDER MEYER. for the establishment of the order of deaconesses as a part ofthe work of the Church. This memorial was unexpectedly reinforced by a memorial 1176 American Methodism from the Bengal Annual Conference, through Rev- J M.Thoburn, asking for deaconesses who should have author-ity to administer the sacraments to the converted inmates ofthe zenanas. The memorials excited much interest. The General Con-ference recognized the hand of God in opening this avenueof usefulness for Christian women. Although it did not goso far as to accede to the request of the Bengal Conference itdid recognize and adopt the order of deaconesses, and addeda new section to the Discipline providing for the extension ofthe movement under the direction of legally constitutedauthorities. A form for the consecration of deaconesses hasbeen added to the ritual of the Church, thus solemnizing thesetting apart of young women who have passed a satisfactoryexamination in the

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