Note 1 — NOTE.
Reading edition
Schäfer, Die Weibliche Diakonie, vol. i, p. 21.
2 The details of the deaconess work at Mülhausen are largely taken from Schäfer’s Die Weibliche Diakonie, vol. ii.
3 Life of Pastor Fliedner, translated by C. Winckworth, London, 1867, p. 133. “The favor of the great, especially the condescending kindness of our late Sovereign, he took as a gift from the King of kings, who allowed his own work to be thus promoted. He strenuously avoided all personal distinction, and never wore the order which had been sent him; ‘for a servant of the Church,’ he said, ‘there should be but one order—the Cross of the Lord.’”
4 Der Armen und Kranken Freund, August, 1888.
5 Denkschrift zur Jubelfeier, pp. 248, 249.