Life and letters of WAPassavant, DD. . umber. The withdrawal of the twoyoungest children in a feAV weeks, and the going to a trade ofthe two larger boys, soon reduced the family to its original num-ber. By September of the same year, however, five other chil-dren had been received. One of these was committed to theInstitution with many tears, by a father who died in the In-firmary. Another was brought to it by a justice of the peace,in consequence of the dying charge of her father, who left hischild with his little all, to the Home. Many years after the foregoing report was read the writerof t
Life and letters of WAPassavant, DD. . umber. The withdrawal of the twoyoungest children in a feAV weeks, and the going to a trade ofthe two larger boys, soon reduced the family to its original num-ber. By September of the same year, however, five other chil-dren had been received. One of these was committed to theInstitution with many tears, by a father who died in the In-firmary. Another was brought to it by a justice of the peace,in consequence of the dying charge of her father, who left hischild with his little all, to the Home. Many years after the foregoing report was read the writerof this heard Mr. Passavant tell these interesting stories ofthose early beginnings: One of the early consignments of children was sent fromPhiladelphia. Mr. Passavant went to the station expecting tomeet a group of bright, clean and happy children. Instead ofthis he found them begrimed with dust of travel and bestainedwith tears. When he told them who he was, one of the largergirls ran up to him, threw her arms about his neck and sobbed:. THE ORPHANS FARM SCHOOL, ZELIEXOPLE, ORPHAN WORK. 225 So you are Mr. Passavant, and you will be our father. Thenand there, he told us, he received a new and needed lesson onwhat it means to be director of an Orphanage. Then he knewthat he must be a father and love these desolate little ones intogoodness and happiness. But the romance and the visions thathis fervid imagination had pictured were gone. Orphan work,and all mercy work henceforth meant to him the giving of lifeand love. When the cholera was raging in Chicago Mr Passavanton a hasty trip to that city found a Swedish Pastor makingcoffins, with his own hands, for the poor among his people whohad been cut down by the pestilence.—If we recall correctlythis was the Rev. Father Carlson, the devoted pioneer mission-ary among the Swedes of Chicago. Wringing his hands he saidto Passavant, What shall I do with their orphaned children?* Send twelve of them to my orphans home in Pittsburg
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