Life and letters of WAPassavant, DD. . K. Brobst andRev. J. K. Melhorn. Of the spirit, influence and personnel of the college duringthe years of Passavants residence there, the Rev. Dr. wrote in the Memorial Workman, Nov. 22, 1894, as fol-lows: The college life of Dr. Passavant gave to him an extraordi-ary fervor of religious character. He entered it while there re-mained in the more advanced classes many who had been con-verted by a powerful outpouring of the Holy Spirit. Some ofthe members of these classes became eminent preachers of theGospel, instructors in literary and theologica
Life and letters of WAPassavant, DD. . K. Brobst andRev. J. K. Melhorn. Of the spirit, influence and personnel of the college duringthe years of Passavants residence there, the Rev. Dr. wrote in the Memorial Workman, Nov. 22, 1894, as fol-lows: The college life of Dr. Passavant gave to him an extraordi-ary fervor of religious character. He entered it while there re-mained in the more advanced classes many who had been con-verted by a powerful outpouring of the Holy Spirit. Some ofthe members of these classes became eminent preachers of theGospel, instructors in literary and theological institutions, andothers became foreign missionaries. At the same boarding housewith him in the summer of his sophomore year, 1837-8, were thesaintly and able Walter M. Lowrie, the eminent pioneer ofPresbyterian missions in China; Prof. Robert Patterson, hislifelong and intimate friend, and the writer, whose life hasbeen spent in foreign missionary labors in China and Californiaand in home missionary and educational employments. John. THE PASSAVANT HOMESTEAD, Z2LIEN0PL2, PA. AT COLLEGE. 29 Lloyd and Hugh A. Brown, also missionaries to China, andWm. L. Richards, son of the missionary who was born in theHawaiian Islands and died after some years service in China,were all in college with him. Cyrus Dickson, the fervent Sec-retary of the Home Missions in the Presbyterian Church; JohnM. Stevenson, the able and devoted Secretary of the AmericanTract Society; Frederick A. Muhlenberg, the learned and ear-nest Lutheran preacher and professor in the University ofPennsylvania, at Philadelphia, and other institutions, and sev-eral other ministers of wide and just reputation, were then or hadrecently been there. The savor of the powerful influence of theHoly Spirit abode in many hearts and lives. It was the fervor, the consecration, the prayerfulness, thewillingness to go forth and labor, and suffer, if needs be, wher-ever the dear Master might call him, which came with thatshower of bless
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