St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-02-17
POWER OF WOMAN.
HER INFLUENCE EXTENDS TO
EVEN THE REMOTEsT CORNER
OF THE EARTH.
DEACONESS MASS MEETING
At WESLEY CHURCH MARKED BY
ELOQUENT AND CHIVALROUS
ADDRESSES.
GREAT GOOD ACCOMPLISHED
DEACONEss MASS MEETING
By the Devoted SisterhOOd Among
All Denomination
at Rennepin Church.

The session Of the Deaconesses' con-
ference adversely NJ. E. church yester-
day afternoon was in some respects the
most interesting of any Of the preceding
sessions. 1t was interesting because
the sentiment expressed in the several
addresses left no room for doubt that
woman's work and influence are now
recognized as permanent factor in
the church as well as in other institu
tons. The meeting was addressed by
distinguished local laymen and clergy
men who could not say too much in
praise of woman and her work, espec-
tally as exemplified in the deaconesses
movement. Man, they united in de-
claring, had invariably stood aside and
watched woman take the initiative in
all great and progressive movements
which called for personal sacrifice and
denial Then man got the glory.
The first speaker, Rev. F. M. Rule,
pastor of Thirteenth Avenue M. E.
church, was introduced by Rev. DR..
Chaffee, who presided. There was
time, he said, when all that was neces-
sary for speaker to awaken the en-
thusiasm OF his auditors at a Fourth
OF July meeting was to metaphorically
thrash England. And with ministers
many times they had attempted to
awaken enthusiasm by thrashing Cath
oilcs. 1t was not his mission to thrash
anyone. He was to speak of the Ro-
man Catholic sisterhood and their
work. The sisterhood of Methodism
was not new thought with those who
recognized that Jesus was the Savior
OF the world. True men in all ages
since Christ recognized this.
The Catholic sisters he said. "are
the product of the spirit of Christian
monastlc1sm since the sixth century.
therefore, they are part of the great
orders of the Catholic church, the Au-
gustinians, the Benedictines. Domini-
cans and F'ranciscans. They have cor
responding orders of sisterhoods,
which, with divisions, number forty-
i've. Their work is done under the
triple VOW of perpetual chastity. pow
erty and devotion. These sisters are
not strangers anywhere. They are rep
resented In every land. They shadow
the throne Of Europe. They have pen
etrated to the Indus and the Gauges.
and they dwell in the islands Of the
sea. Ihey have traversed the deserts
OF Ih1bet, and said: Here 1 am They
walk the streets Of Pekin; they look
down into the silver mines of Peru.
ana they kneel In prayer on the shores
or the great lakes. For the love Of
Christ they know no defeat. but. toll
ing and suffering, die to plant his cross
Wherever man sickens, suffers and dies.
IL mas sometimes been said that con-
vents are hotbeds of immortality. This
is not true. There are some evils at
tending the Catholic sisterhood which
L trust the sisterhood of Methodism
may avoid. They do some work that
our sisters will not need to do. One of
their greatest mistakes is the secrecy
maintained in reference to their num-
oefs, purposes and their work. An
other mistake is that they fail to take
with them an open Bible and prav for
rather than with those who have come
under their care.
In 1910 there were a number ~
Catholcs and Protestants executed on
one ana the same occasion at London
tower, who were objects of the kings
impartial detestation. The Catholics
were hung as rebels and the Profess
tahts burned as heretics. sincerely
hope that the
CATHOLIC AND METHODIST
Sisters may be together on many oo-
caslons in works of charity. rescue and
salVatlon, receiving commendation fror,
the world and God rather than detesta-
ton" ''- VIC d.
Rev. j. F. LANCE, st. Paul. spoke Of
the origin of the German-Lutheran
oeaconess movement. 1t had been
s soa1 at kalserwerth, Germany, in
1881, by Theodore Fliedner. Fron, mo
Viding originally simply for yisitations
10 the needy and suffering, the worI,
nao grown rapidly, and in a short time
II embraced hospitals, training schools
orphan asylums, etc. In 1864 an at.
tempt mad been made to introduce the
work IN America, at Pittsburg. But the
GERMAN IDEAS were not in accord with
the American idea as to how the work
snoulo pc conducted, aud the attempt
was a failure
j. Z. Wyman, Minneapolis, spoke next
He despised the character of Adam
ana said that Ananias had possessed
more chivalry. When Adam had q
chance to show himself a good man
ne put all the responsibility on Eve.
and said she did it." Woman-like. she
let him have the first and the last
WORD, though he was more to blame
tnan she. In Keeping still. Eve showed
concluSlVely that she was a good wom-
an. Many men had since tried to keen
all women STILL Neither was the SUI
perlor of the other in theory. Man
IN many directions possessed more abil-
lty than women, in matters of govern
ment, etc. But woman excelled man
In other directions, in tenderness and
gentleness she was his superior. A true
woman possessed all these attributes.
1t was impossible for a woman to I'M
sex herself and to become a man.
as the new woman has attempted. It
was equally impossible for a man to
nave Woman'S intuition a Woman's
heart. Woman was more moral than
man, and woman had done a great deal
for the church, for the world and for
man. Abraham Lincoln had once said
that whatever he might have achieved
in life should be credited to his saint
ed mother. Wherever the book of life
was Kept, when the records came to be
compared, all good women would be re-
membered and rewarded.