Excerpt from The Ministry of Women: A Report by a Committee Appointed by His Grace the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, With Appendices and Fifteen Collotype Illustrations (Classic Reprint)
It is even here needful to add a warning that there is room for a much more detailed investigation than has yet been attempted of many branches of the subject.
The New Testament evidence has been treated with some fulness by Dr. Mason in Appendix I.; and St. Paul's attitude towards women by Miss Alice Gardner in Appendix II.
For a general survey of the history of deaconesses from the earliest times to the present day the reader will turn to the admirable article by that excellent scholar, the late Dr. Collins, Bishop of Gibraltar, which, with kind permis sion of editor and publishers, We (have reprinted from the C lunch Quarterly Review of January, 1899, as Appendix VII. Dr. Collins's accuracy and Wealth of detail and his clearness of statement have made it unnecessary to provide any very lengthy historical treatment of this part of the subject in the main body of the Report.