Life and letters of WAPassavant, DD. . worthy clergyman and his wife were chosen forthe post and, as the house cannot be obtained till April, theywill be at the Wartburg, learning in quietness how to labor inthe work. After singing a sweet German hymn and engagingin prayer, we returned to supper at Mr. Hansens and at nineo clock at night went to bed in the cars and awoke at six in NewYork. Dearest mother, is not all this wonderful! Not the travel-ing only, but this strange and unlooked for extension of thework of mercy East and West. It is true, I am often over-whelmed with its duties; but cou
Life and letters of WAPassavant, DD. . worthy clergyman and his wife were chosen forthe post and, as the house cannot be obtained till April, theywill be at the Wartburg, learning in quietness how to labor inthe work. After singing a sweet German hymn and engagingin prayer, we returned to supper at Mr. Hansens and at nineo clock at night went to bed in the cars and awoke at six in NewYork. Dearest mother, is not all this wonderful! Not the travel-ing only, but this strange and unlooked for extension of thework of mercy East and West. It is true, I am often over-whelmed with its duties; but could I only get relief from mypreaching duties at Baden, Rochester, and Chartiers, I couldeasily attend to all. Meanwhile I labor and wait for the dawn-ing of the good day of relief when I can devote my wholestrength to this holy work alone. When the faithful co-laborer of Dr. Passavant, the G. Holls, the efficient rector of the Orphans Farm school atZelienople and afterwards at the Wartburg, died, Aug. 12, 1886,the Doctor wrote:. THE IASSAVAXT .MKAhJRlAL lloSlITAL, J ACKSi. .\ Xl LLi:, 1L!„ ORPHAN WORK. 481 To do justice to the character and life-work of the de-ceased, in the brief limits of this notice, is simply impos-sible. For nearly thirty years it has been our privilege to be as-sociated with him in the most intimate relations of friendshipand official intercourse and we know not which to admire most,his goodness or his greatness, as evinced in his absolute sub-mission to the authority of the divine Word, his renuncia-tion of all self-reliance and merit, and his implicit trust forsalvation in the righteousness of Christ Jesus, his Saviour. Agreat reader, a thinker, a scholar, a teacher, a philanthropist,who, while he gave his first thoughts to the care and the instruc-tion of the orphans, was yet alive to every form of rescuingmercy in the Church, and withal an able Christian minister whofed the flock which Christ has purchased with His own deceased was
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