Life and letters of WAPassavant, DD. . planning and praying for the Chicago Seminary. Hewas co-editor of The Lutheran and Missionary. He was pastorof the Rochester and Baden churches. He was everybodyscounsellor and adviser. Now came Church wars and rumorsof wars. There M^ere few congregations in the Pittsburg Synodwith whose founding he had not had something to do. Therewere few into which the present disturbance did not every side Dr. Passavant was appealed to. His personalpresence was solicited on all occasions and in every place. Hisadvice was asked in heaps of letters every day
Life and letters of WAPassavant, DD. . planning and praying for the Chicago Seminary. Hewas co-editor of The Lutheran and Missionary. He was pastorof the Rochester and Baden churches. He was everybodyscounsellor and adviser. Now came Church wars and rumorsof wars. There M^ere few congregations in the Pittsburg Synodwith whose founding he had not had something to do. Therewere few into which the present disturbance did not every side Dr. Passavant was appealed to. His personalpresence was solicited on all occasions and in every place. Hisadvice was asked in heaps of letters every day. More than everdid the care of all the churches rush in upon him. More thanever did he have to be on train, on wagon, in buggy and on foot,by day and by night, in heat and dust and storm, in journeyingsoft, in perils by his own countrymen, and in perils among falsebrethren. It was largely through his indefatigable labors andinfluence that so large a majority of the Pittsburg Synod stoodfirm for historic and confessional WARTBURG ORPHANS FARM SCHOOL, MT. VERNON, N. Y. FOUNDING OF THE GENERAL COUNCIL. 449 It certainly seems strange to us, looking back from thisdistance, that a man so deeply devout, so certainly spiritual, soconscientiously consecrated; a man who had shown his faith byhis works as no other man in the Church had done, and whosename and fame were a crown of glory to the Church that heloved better than he loved his life, in the heat and bitternessof the conflict should be called a hypocrite, a Romanist,a formalist and what not. Yet such is the fact, and such ishuman nature. We would not be understood, however, as claiming thatthere was no fault on the side of the conservatives. There wereunworthy men on that side, also. There were men who usedthe plea of orthodoxy to cover up an unbelieving heart, men,whose professions of love of sound doctrine were used to cloakan impure and a dishonest life. There were others who, whilenot real hypocrites, were yet s
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