Sister Elisabeth Fedde: To Do the Lord's Will Jack S. Balch Gates provides an introduction to

Gates provides an introduction to each of the book's five sections

largely unseen

The festivities brought together

The need to uphold those values would seem obvious

first published in 1917

Sister Elisabeth Fedde: To Do the Lord's Will Jack S. Balch Gates provides an introduction toElisabeth Fedde, a deaconess from Norway, answered a call in 1883 to come and help sick and indigent Norwegians in Brooklyn. The group that called her expected that she would walk the streets of Brooklyn and minister to those she found in need. They did not know they had called a pioneer with unusual abilities. Before two years were out, she had begun a hospital and motherhouse to train deaconesses. Three years later she established a Deaconess