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*u0dsn?rdna3*'aaaII..r. UALUWIn, Upvetuor,Ttie Election of Deaconesses In Beecher*: s , : . Tlf BOBtb CklKfe. :At the annual meeting of PlywoiHli _•rdytn)-itdIitot*18yit»DPk»n»*bisI,church, Brooklyn (the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher’*), was the report* th* officers showed the present number of members to be 1,797, tho“pew rent* to liavt^ been about $30,000, ahcl th§ do* nations for various benevolent purpo* sea daring the past year, $40,000. Thaiohurch'^hiia built a schoolhonto for itsmission school, at an expeuse of $00, 7-75. • a 1 ■ ' ' 0: On the first ballot'for the choice of deacons, several votes were cast for one of thejady qiembers of the church, well-known for active beuevolence and extraordinary mental powers. Befos* the neiTballut was taken this lady was ’ openly nominated, and would have been elected, but; for a suggestion from tHe pastor that lie would. presently of* for a resolution providing for 'deacon*esses.-..- - ■■ri-: ' 'Xccorduigly, as soon' as: three gwa-tlemeu had been elec ted deacon a, Mr-Rseclier offered.a resolution providing for the election of three deaoouewes, to assist the deacons ia the per forty -ance of their duties as visitors of the sick and'poor. Mr, Beeuher spoke effectively m support of his motion, Hying, among other tbiogVtkat the office , fdeaooueu waa one1* that bad been * known to the Christian church from the earliest period, and. ought to be revived wherever it had been.allowed' to go out of «*e. The motion was op* -posed by Capt. C. C. Duncan and oq« or two others, to whom Mr. -Beecher replied, and the ihoiion was adopted by almost a unanimous vote.* Mr*. Morril| Mrs, Fanning, and Mrs. Thjd-hetmer were then unanimously 9 choseu-deaeanesses of Plymouth church. They are ladies well known in the church for the unobtrusive but active labors* in the self-denial work to whioh they i- are now officially assisting and the se-*1 lection is. universally regarded aa^ auadmirable one.i-tit
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Marshall Democratic Expounder and Calhoun Patriot
Marshall, Michigan, US
Thu, Feb 11, 1869
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