Pittsburg."[78]

The institution is occasionally heard of afterward in the proceedings
of the Pittsburg Synod, and in the paper, _The Missionary_, published
under the auspices of the same Church. Urgent appeals were also sent out
for devoted Christian women to come to the aid of the sisters and to
join their numbers; but although the hospital, commended by their
skillful and able ministrations as nurses, had the full approval of the
public, there were few, if any, who came to join them, and they were
unduly burdened by a task too great for their small number.

In 1854 Dr. Passavant resigned his pastoral charge, and devoted his
entire time to the furtherance of the cause, but, up to the present, it
has not attained the complete organization and wide extension that its
friends in the German Lutheran Church have desired.

The institutions which owe their existence to Dr. Passavant's efforts
are the infirmary at Pittsburg; the hospital and deaconess home in
Milwaukee; the hospital in Jacksonville, Ill.; the orphanages for girls
in Rochester and Mount Vernon, N. Y., and one for boys in Pennsylvania.

There is, at the present time, only one of the original Kaiserswerth
sisters left, and that is Sister Elizabeth, the head deaconess at
Rochester. Dr. Passavant still continues to labor at forming a complete
organization on the basis of the Kaiserswerth system, and, to quote the
words of Dr. A. Spaeth, "As he succeeded forty years ago in bringing the
first sisters over from Kaiserswerth to Pittsburg, I have no doubt that
now, when the Church is at last awakening to the importance of this
work, he will succeed in the completion of his undertaking."

A more recent development of the deaconess work in the German Lutheran
Church has arisen in connection with the German hospital in
Philadelphia. The hospital was well equipped for its work, but there was
much dissatisfaction with the nursing, which was inefficient and
unskillful. In the fall of 1882 the hospital authorities turned for
advice and co-operation to Dr. W. J. Mann, Dr. A. Spaeth, and other
clergymen of the denomination in Philadelphia. It was determined to
secure German deaconesses as nurses. Several attempts were made to
induce Kaiserswerth, or some other large mother-house in Germany, to
give up a few sisters to the hospital, but on all sides the applications
were refused. The deaconesses were too greatly needed in the Old World
to be spared for work in the New. At l