Excerpt from Agnes Grahame, Deaconess: A Story of Woman's Work for Christ and His ChurchAt no time, I believe, since the founding of the Christian Church, has a systematic ministry of women been unnecessary, or, indeed, has it been safe to conduct religious operations without one. But in our own day there are special causes, connected with the separation of classes, with feverlsh excitement in busmess, with excess of various kinds, and manifold misery arising out of that excess, with selfish neglect on the one hand, and sorrowful desolation on the other, - which urgently demand the soothing, patient, vigilant, gentle, kelpz'ng work of women that is implied in the term Deaconess.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.