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the younger became ambitious to copy well enough 

 to assist their father in the mechanical part of his 

 work. 



In 1850, tlie General Synod of the United States 

 met in Charleston, S. C. Dr. Bachman, wrote to a 

 relative, May 10th. : '' Our General Synod held its 

 sessions in St. John's. Ten of its members staid at 

 my house — and my hands were full." 



John G. Morris, D. D./^ of Baltimore, tells us: 



"It was the tirst time we had met South, and it 

 was a happy meeting." Alluding to Dr. Bach man's 

 earlier connection with that Synod, he continues : 



Rev. John Bachman of Charleston had been for 

 some years a leading man in the Southern Church, 

 before he became personally known to the same class 

 of men in the Central Church. His first appearance 

 among them, was as a member of the General Synod 

 in New York, in 1833, Avhen he endeared himself to 

 them all by his courteous manners, his high social 

 (qualities, his varied learning and his churchly activ- 

 ity. He was gay without frivolity, learned without 

 pedantry, and pious without asceticism. He had 

 already at that time, acquired a great reputation as 

 a naturalists ; but he never alluded to science with- 

 out being asked a question. 



On this occasion, at York, a number of us accom- 

 panied him on a botanical excursion up the Coder us 

 Urceky when we were compelled, not only to admire 

 his familiarity with the Flora of the region, and his 

 facility in discovering the names of the few plants 

 unknown to him, but also to admire, and, at the 

 same time to deplore, his extreme agility ; for he out- 



*Fifty years in the lAitheran Ministry. 



