Life and letters of WAPassavant, DD. . rchase thefirst thirty acres for the Farm School, a warm and valuedfriend remonstrated: Why Mr. Passavant, do not do it. Justthink! flour is eleven dollars a barrel and potatoes a dollarand a half a barrel. Yes, I know it, he quietly answered,but God wants me to begin or He would not have sent methese poor children to care for. The Lord will provide. Probably nothing hurt him so much as the decided oppo-sition of his good mother. To this we shall refer later. Certainly, one of the most highly prized donations for theorphan work in those early days was a g
Life and letters of WAPassavant, DD. . rchase thefirst thirty acres for the Farm School, a warm and valuedfriend remonstrated: Why Mr. Passavant, do not do it. Justthink! flour is eleven dollars a barrel and potatoes a dollarand a half a barrel. Yes, I know it, he quietly answered,but God wants me to begin or He would not have sent methese poor children to care for. The Lord will provide. Probably nothing hurt him so much as the decided oppo-sition of his good mother. To this we shall refer later. Certainly, one of the most highly prized donations for theorphan work in those early days was a gift of twenty-five dol-lars sent, at the request of young Mr. Krauths wife on herdying bed, by the broken-hearted husband. Nov. 8, 1861, a fire broke out in the building used as theGirls Orphan Home in Pittsburg. While the building itselfwas saved, the contents were almost entirely ruined. Thismeant new anxieties and labors for Dr. Passavant. The event,however, served also to bring out anew the sympathies andcharities of many ORPHAN WORK, 241 At the opening of the new year, Mr. Bassler took iTpon him-self a considerable part of the duties which Dr. Passavant hadhitherto performed. Mr. Reck, at the same time, was madeDirector of the Home in the city. This took another load fromthe shoulders of Dr. Passavant. He still remained Director ofthe Deaconess Institution and of the Infirmary. He still hadthe responsibility of raising the supplies for all three Insti-tutions. In December of the same year a worse calamity than theone in Pittsburg befell the Farm School at Zelienople. Of thisMr. Passavant writes in the Christmas number of the paper: Our holy and beautiful house for the fatherless, the ob-ject of years of anxiety, toil and sacrifice and the cherishedhome of our orphan boys, is burned with fire. The destruc-tion is complete. Already on the evening of the sixth the entirenorth wall, notwithstanding its great thickness, fell carryingwith it most of the interior walls,
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