360 John Bachman. 



class. I had no reason to doubt of his piety. The 

 vessel in which he was to sail, was to leave before 

 the meeting of the Synod. I felt it my duty, as 

 President of the Synod, to give him such credentials 

 as would render him useful among the benighted 

 nations in the land of his forefathers. How far this 

 mission, voluntarily undertaken by an individual, 

 and supported, in a great measure, by the people of 

 his own color, will be productive of good, must be 

 left to Him who is the ruler of nations, and who is 

 able to convert even the most untoward events into 

 the instruments of great and abiding mercy. We 

 are greatly indebted to the Rev. Benj. Kurtz, and to 

 several of our Northern friends, especially to the 

 former, for their kindness to this young and inex- 

 perienced missionary, and for their advice and pecu- 

 niary aid. 



Dr. Morris tells us * : 



" Bishop Payne (colored), now of the Methodist 

 Church, was reared a Lutheran by Dr. Bachman, of 

 Charleston, and studied for awhile at Gettysburg ; 

 but there was no field among us, and he was advised 

 to go to the Methodists, among whom he has become 

 quite distinguish ed." 



We find many letters from and with regard to 

 Rev. Jehu Jones, also from Dr. Bach man's colored 

 congregation. He had been a very useful man in 

 his Church as a leader, and might have been so as a 

 preacher at home, where the negro character and 

 pecularities were understood ; but he desired to go 

 North. He went and made an effort to raise a con- 

 gregation in Philadelphia, but failed. Dr. Morris 



* Fifty years in the Lutheran Ministry. 



