Life and letters of WAPassavant, DD. . self-denying German pioneers in Milwaukee: A telegraphic dispatch from Br. S. brings the sad newsthat my dearly beloved brother and friend, Muehlhaeuser, hasfallen asleep. What an illustration his life was of the powerof an earnest and holy ministry. No one man of our unobtrusiveministry has wrought such results. Help Lord, for the godlyman ceaseth, for the righteous fail from among the sons ofmen. Here is a letter brimful of interest about his western in-stitutions and the western mission field in general. It is oneof the last letters to his beloved Bass
Life and letters of WAPassavant, DD. . self-denying German pioneers in Milwaukee: A telegraphic dispatch from Br. S. brings the sad newsthat my dearly beloved brother and friend, Muehlhaeuser, hasfallen asleep. What an illustration his life was of the powerof an earnest and holy ministry. No one man of our unobtrusiveministry has wrought such results. Help Lord, for the godlyman ceaseth, for the righteous fail from among the sons ofmen. Here is a letter brimful of interest about his western in-stitutions and the western mission field in general. It is oneof the last letters to his beloved Bassler who was making hislast brave fight against the relentless inroads of his final ill-ness: My dear Br. Bassler. Grace and peace! Your favorreached me an hour after my arrival here in Chicago from Mil-waukee whither I had gone for various reasons. The fact that you are not worse but rather better cheers me very much My visit to Milwaukee was a truly agreeable one, the institutionunder good sister Barbara and W. Huths faithful care is. TEE FOUNDING OF MILWAUKEE HOSPITAL. 401 doing a blessed work. The gardens and grounds are singularlygreen and fresh as well as most fruitful, while the clear bracingair is something altogether new to me after living this summerin the sweltering atmosphere of Pittsburg. Oh, what a mercythat hospital is to the suffering in Wisconsin. When I wasthere on Friday last the Rev. Pastor Braun, a minister of theWisconsin Synod, on his way to Germany with his wife andsix little children, was brought to the hospital, sick unto poor man, I fear, cannot last long, but he is happy in thelove of God and in the comforts of a Christian home. I forgotall my cares and toils when I looked upon this poor suffererthus cared for in the hour of need. The Institution is working its way into the confidenceof all good men and the Protestants of all denominations feelthat it is a most blessed thing for the common cause to have such a retreat in the hour of sufferin
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