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    354 OPEN COUNCIL.

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    want is widelfeltand the gradually taking mus Engli t sh be min done d y is to slow meet , in it receiving ; but we a must new idea have , and long still for since slower discovered in acting th upon at the it .

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    w urges hich t he susp beginning icions of of ILomanism a testant similar , work could in belong England the . Continent , formed upon with a model few re to

    -3 . In 1852 " The Pro Deaconess on , g marks iving on an the accoun , duties t of of the her several office , " forei was published institutions by , the and Hev poin . H ting . de out Bunsen their ,

    prac 4 . tical An results article . on " Women and their Work" was reprinted from the Ecclesiastic " in 1855 S after the sending out of nurses to the Crimea .

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    with the commencement a proposal to establish of , the etc . Cottage a " Home for Hosp Ladies ital , Middlesboroug of limited income h , Yorkshire , a Peni- tentiary 7 In , 1860 an Orphanage have " , Deaconesses for the Church of England" reprinted

    from And . the now " Church for we the of actual Englan and indi Mon rect thly results Review of . " all this writing , ; and in that the first and certainlthe most

    no successful The ticing firs them t effor article we ts were cannot mentioned made deny by was the the written fact Hig , h Church in vindication party . of the work ins y titutions which

    has elsewhere exis facts ted connected : as in n . Pl 6 accoun ymou with th ts it or bu reports man t its y y are objects ears published , and embrace has it also is all not branch those easy points to ascertain which

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    A M mongs " at Clewer more establis g hed for many years , , and y now carrying out a great w London ork ercy in a branch peniten , of tiary thi sisterhood above six is ty beginning women , and a middle an orp - hanage class school ; and for in

    low girls Then - , lace and there a Shoredi home is the f t ch In dressmakers stitution and s also of in ' St H and . ampshire Mary milliners ' s Sis carry t ' appren , ing with tices on a all Home . the branches at

    Thurto sing of Those sis p But an terhood infan institutions , t work nursery h has ; which an , , d I schools t think he are All solel , orp been Sain y hanage f t s shown ' peni Home , an ten to , , d t in iar asy prove Margaret y lum work that for I ha incurables - the street ve suggestions no , t com a . lluded

    prifor have . the not future been enoug . altogether But , it is barren certainl , of y a results somewhat , and startling may give fact us , stron that g while hopes _,

    354 Open Council.

    354 OPEN COUNCIL .

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1860, page 354, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071860/page/66/