mbers did not increase.
An orphanage was afterward started at Rochester, and hospitals under the
same auspices exist at Milwaukee, Jacksonville, Ill., and Chicago. Still
the work has not grown, and it has proved the least successful of any
initiated by Fliedner. Upon his return he aided in opening
mother-houses in Breslau, Koenigsberg, Dantzic, Stettin, and Carlsruhe.

We have now come to the period when Kaiserswerth institutions met with a
notable extension. Fliedner had long been looking toward Jerusalem,
hoping to found a deaconess home there. "Who would not gladly render
service on the spot where the feet of the Saviour once brought help and
healing to the sick?" he had said.

Now, through Dr. Gobat, the Bishop of Jerusalem, the opportunity was
given. The king offered two small houses in Jerusalem that were his
private property, and volunteered to pay the expenses of the journey.
Associations were formed in all parts of Germany to provide an outfit
for the mission. Gifts flowed in rapidly, and March 17, 1851, Fliedner,
accompanied by four deaconesses, two of them being teachers, set out on
this new and peaceful crusade to the holy city. From that beginning has
resulted a net-work of stations throughout the East.

There is at Jerusalem a hospital[33] where, during 1887, four hundred
and ninety-three patients were given medical aid and nursing, and seven
thousand seven hundred and two patients were treated in the dispensary.
No woman in the city is better known or more justly honored than Sister
Charlotte, the head-deaconess.

The Mohammedans at first regarded the work of the sisters with fanatical
distrust, but a glance at the statistics of the last report will show
how completely they have cast aside their prejudices.

Of the 493 patients in 1887, there were 404 Arabians, 43 Armenians, 30
Germans, 5 Abyssinians, 4 Greeks, 3 Roumanians, 2 Russians, 1 Italian,
and 1 Hollander. As to religion, there were 235 Mohammedans, 97
Protestants, 78 Greeks, 23 Roman Catholics, 45 Armenians, 6 Copts, 3
Syrian Christians, 4 Proselytes, 1 Jew, and 1 Maronite; so that in all
nine nations and nine religious faiths were represented in the hospital.

There is also a girls' orphanage, called "Talitha Cumi," just outside
the city walls at Jerusalem, where one hundred and fourteen native girls
were last year taught by the Kaiserswerth deaconesses. Over a hundred
more made application to enter, but there was no room to receive them.