CHAPTER XXVIL 



Illness and Convalesence. 



Letter from .i. a. brown, d. d,, and dr. bachman's reply — 

 fru>[ rev. j. b. haskell — reply to letters from miles- 

 town, pa. — correspondence between john haskell and 

 his grandfather — letters to a. r. rude, d. d., mr. john 

 s. fake, rev. t. w. dosh — bereavement — decline. 



JUNE, 1871, Dr. Bachman had a severe stroke of 

 paralysis, that for days threatened to terminate 

 fatally : he longed to depart ; but, as he once wrote — 

 " God had still something for him to do, if it were only 

 to sufferT 



Many were the prayers offered by ministers of his 

 own and other denominations, and many the hymns 

 sung at his bedside. 



His grandson, John Haskell, has preserved in 

 writing — what he treasured in his heart — the words 

 of faith and trust that fell from the lips of his grand- 

 father. 



The columns of the Lutheran Visitor, kept the 

 Church informed of Dr. Bachman's condition, and 

 the daily mails brought letters of inquiry and sym- 

 pathy from his brethren in the Ministry. 



We select one from the late J. A. Brown, D. D. 



Gettysburg, Pa., Aug. 14th, 1871. 

 My venerated friend and father in Christ : The 

 dark chasm of ten years often disappears and reveals 



