as readily indicate the .sj)rings of action, or 

 uive tlie tinei" touches to character: on the 

 otlier liand. niu-onsciously, love may some- 

 times look with too [)artial an eye. The 

 I'eader nuist l)e tlu^ judge : we could only 

 adoj)t the |)rincii)le h)id down — '' Jjcf hint 

 .^l>eak for Ji'nn^elf.' 



The letters to Audubon take a ])rominent 

 ])h\ce, from the fact that they Inn e been })re- 

 served. while others of ecjual, or of greater 

 interest, at h\-ist to the (^hurcli, lia\'e been 

 (h^stroyed. 



Althongh tlie name of Bachmax is (dosely 

 interwo\(Mi with the early life of the Lutheran 

 diurcli ill tlie South, yet the details of his 

 laboi's liere would weary the gerieral reader, 

 and would, necessarily. ha\'e been very impcM'- 

 fect. 



Many of the letter's written, wliik' passing 

 under the rod. si^nii too sacred tV)r the critical 

 eye of the j)nblic. But without these we couhl 

 neither give the read(U' a glimpse into the 

 tender, loving h(\-irt of the uian and the father, 

 nor couhl he trace the growth of that marvel- 

 lous sympathy whi(di (MiabliMl John Bach- 

 max to enter into thc^joys and sorrows of his 

 fellow-nicn, almost as if the\- W(M'e his own. 



