New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-11-25
THE EPISCOPALLAN HOUSES FOR WONEN

We perceive that the different dioceses of
the Episcopal Church already acting on
the recommendation of tho Convention in
establishing houses for the support and instruc-
ton of women DESTROYS of devOting them
selves to the care of the sick or teaching.
Single or unprotected women are thus assured
of work, a livelihood, and the protection of
venerable and pure religious body. We cannot
too emphatically commend the promptitude
and common sense with which this Church has
taken up the matter, and hope that sectarian
prejudice will not hinder other Protestant sects
from following her example. We hope, too, and
that because We know how urgent is the need
Of the aid this movement offers, that the
existing unhappy divisions in the Church may
not be allowed to color the sisterhoods with
too strong a tint of Rituaism or Radicalsm.
These are small matters, but it is one of vast
Importance that Christianity should hold out
strong, efficient hands to woman, when, with
need of food on the right hand and free-lovc
helpers on the left, her strait is extreme.
Thousands of widows or young girls would
be thankful for any chance to learn to nurse
or teach, under the oversight and protection
of godly men and women, who yet revolt
from the wearing of Il costume or abjuring
their names, or those disputes anent affairs or
abs, the very points which make the plan
attractive to others. Will the Episcopal or
any other Church make provision for such
We have once or twice called attention to
Quaker establishment in Philadelphia which
has been in operation for upward of twenty
years, because we believe it combines the ele-
mcnts of aims giving and aid to seif-help to
women in an exceptionally wise and skilful
manner. In it women are gratuitously and
thoroughly educated rs skilled nurses, quail
fled to earn from 81 to SIS per week, and fur
ni,hcd Cat their own OptiOn) with home
where boarding is given at cost it is also the
medium through which the lying-in women
are supplied with free medical attendance
and nursing. The diseases of women and
children are treated gratuitOusly. The
Friends have u peculiarly wise tact in giving
help and leaving the recipient her self-respect,
and never showed it more plainly than here.
We respectfully suggest the system of this
old and successful institution to tho consider
alton of our EpiscOpalian brethren. Why
should not corps of nurses be educated in
connection with each of the sisterhOOds, and
fitted to earn independent livelih0ods. remain
i"S Hol iHcnipclS VI any Vi"ci, Ou', us lucy
would be glad to do, under the oversight of
the Bishop, as the Quakcr-taught nurses are
under that of their friendly patrons!
This would open the way for many
women to receive aid whose children
or other outside ties prevent their en-
tcring any sistrrhood and who yet deserve
kclp and would doubtless prove faithful
workers and witnesses for Christ and
those Of Ills servants who had shown
His loving Kindness to them in practical
way. We shall BE- glad to receive details of
the system of these houses, when established,
to serve az guide and assistance to others.
and hope We shall have to note before long
Presbyterian, Baptist, and Methodist sister
hoods, Us well US those of the three older
churches,