Almost all the Sisterhoods possess a permanent Kindergarten for the children of women who are obliged to work outside their homes, and an employment bureau.
Other benevolent organisations which seem to me admirable, are the Sisterhoods founded twenty years ago by the Rabbi Gottheil.
The sisterhoods of the convents and monasteries were the nurses, the teachers, the students, the caretakers of the poor, and the guardians of the orphaned rich.
When I was eighteen years old," she relates, "I first learned about the charitable sisterhoodsin Catholic lands, and the knowledge seized upon me with almost irresistible power.
In America, however, as in England, within the Episcopal Church sisterhoods are more influential and more rapid in their growth than are deaconess institutions.
To another minister he complained with warmth that the Protestant Church had no such sisterhoodsby which the beneficent stream of activities among women could be directed into well-regulated channels.
The sisterhoods are distinctly under the fostering care of the former element, the deaconesses are manifestly favored by the latter.
Doubtless it was the activity and great usefulness of the continental deaconess houses that provided the stimulating examples which acted on the Church of England and led to the rise of sisterhoods and deaconess institutions.
These sisterhoods began in 1847 with a number of ladies brought together through the influence of Dr.
In 1871 the Board of Missions of the Protestant Episcopal Church discussed at some length the relation of women's work to the Church, and there resulted increased interest in the subject of sisterhoods and deaconess institutions.
Their influence and number increased, and twenty-three sisterhoods are mentioned in the last official report.
So far, sisterhoods have proved more attractive to the women of the Church of England than have deaconess establishments.
A sister belongs to a sisterhood which closely resembles the Roman Catholic sisterhoods in many features.
Among the sisterhoods which already supply nurses to all the great hospitals of the capital, the most important is that called “by the name of Jesus.
By preaching, pastoral work, and the founding of numerous brotherhoods and sisterhoods they wrought upon the people, became advisers of the princes through the confessional, wormed their way into connections and into all secrets.
The various sisterhoods differ in degrees of austerity, the Grey Nuns being one of the least exacting.
The extensive convent buildings of the Grey Nuns and other sisterhoods are as numerous as the churches.
There were sisterhoods in St. Leonard's and other hospitals.
Those who know what human nature is should see that with whatever good intentions these sisterhoods are begun, they must in the end lead to much that is objectionable.
Furthermore, there are a number of colored and white Sisterhoods conducting orphanages, academies and Christian Schools for colored children.
They have the privilege of being the first of all the white sisterhoods in this country to take up the work of teaching colored children exclusively.
Our teaching Sisterhoods in this country have nobly lifted themselves up to the occasion demanded, and we may well be proud of our Catholic colleges for women.
Since I am to be her guardian, I have no notion of swerving from my duty, and letting poor Hal's child be bred up to Sisterhoods and all that flummery.
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