824 John Bachinan. 



During the controvers}^ occasional letters signed 

 " Many Protestants," appeared in the Charleston 

 Xeivs, showing the deep interest felt by the Pro- 

 testant part of the Community in the defence of 

 Luther. On the Romanist side, Dr. Lynch, (after- 

 wards Bishop) and others appeared. 



TJir WatcJiman of tJic SoutJt, and leading Protestant 

 Journals, united witli the Charleston community in 

 the request, that the defense of Luther sliould be 

 preseryed in a permanent form. 



The following lines are found on the iiy leaf of a 

 copy of Dr. Bachman's Defense of Luther, in the 

 liand-writing of his friend, John L. Girardeau, D. D.: 



" When the great German Reformer and the Pro- 

 testant Reformation were assailed in the Council 

 Chamber of Charleston, Dr. Bachman intrepidly 

 came to the front and yindicated them in the im- 

 pregnable argument of this book. 



" John Bachman was one of the noblest men I eyer 

 knew, and one of the most glorious men of this 

 century. 



'Ms an original observer in the iield of Natural His- 

 tory, he did not haye an equal in this country, and 

 no superior among his cotemporaries in Europe. 

 His personal inyestigations went far towards settling 

 the question agitated in his day, of the Lenity of the 

 Human Race. He was equal 'y remarkable as a 

 practical philanthropist. By night and by day, in 

 sunshine and in storm, he ministered with un- 

 Avearied assiduity to the sick and the poor: and when 

 tlie destroying angel swooped down in season of 

 epidemic, he opposed him, as if he Avere an angel 

 from Heayen yested in the garb of humanit3^ 



" When Bachman died, Science and Religion 



