us readily indicate the springs of action, or 

 give the liner touches to character; on the 

 other hand, unconsciously, love may some- 

 times look with too partial an eye. The 

 reader must be the judge ; we could only 

 adopt the principle laid down tf Let him 

 xpeak for himself." 



The letters to Audubon take a prominent 

 place, from the fact that they have been pre- 

 served, while others of equal, or of greater 

 interest, at least to the Church, have been 

 destroyed. 



Although the name of BACH MAX is closely 

 interwoven with the early life of the Lutheran 

 Church in the South, yet the details of his 

 labors here would weary the general reader, 

 and would, necessarily, have been very imper- 

 fect. 



Many of the letters written, while passing 

 under the rod, seem too sacred for the critical 

 eye of the public. But without these we could 

 neither give the reader a glimpse into the 

 tender, loving heart of the man and the father, 

 nor could he trace the growth of that marvel- 

 lous sympathy which enabled JOHN BACH- 

 MAN to enter into the joys and sorrows of his 

 fellow-men, almost as if thev were his own. 



