Defense of Luther. 



ciated the fact, that in the public defense of Luther 

 he acted not from personal feelings, but from prin- 

 ciple and a sense of duty. 



We recall a hospitable home, under the shadow of 

 St. John's Church. The aged host, Mr. P., though 

 a Roman Catholic, delighted to entertain and to 

 refresh the Pastor of St. John's. 



On the occasion of a serious railroad accident, 

 near Branch ville, S. C., Dr. Bachman was at hand 

 and gave efficient aid to the sorely bruised and 

 wounded. With words of sympathy and encourage- 

 ment, he endeavored to sustain their fainting cour- 

 age, until the means of transportation could be 

 obtained. Among the sufferers was a Mr. R., a 

 Romanist, who, from that hour, frequently expressed 

 in grateful terms his admiration for a man whose 

 charity was not confined to those of his own creed 

 and confession. 



In 1853, Dr. Bachman published "A Defense of 

 Luther and the Reformation" 



He writes in his preface to the same : 



At the commencement of the controversy, I had 

 no idea of writing more than four or five articles in 

 defense of Luther. Having, however, been con- 

 tinually goaded on by the attacks and denunciations 

 of the Catholic Miscellany, I concluded that my in- 

 domitable opponents could be best met by carrying 

 war into their own camp. I had hitherto been dis- 

 posed to leave the cause of Protestantism to the 

 defense of those better skilled in controversial theol- 

 ogy : the attack, however, on Luther, in my own 

 city, under circumstances most aggravated and 



