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William Butler was born on January 30, 1818 in Dublin of English parentage.
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William Butler was born on January 30, 1818 in Dublin of English parentage.
In young manhood William became a Methodist and entered the Hardwick Street Mission Seminary (Wesleyan) of Dublin to prepare for the ministry. Upon graduation he was given a charge in Lisburn and later went to a Donegal circuit. Eager for further training he went over to Didsbury College, Manchester, England, but returned to Ireland after finishing the course, bringing a Manchester lady as his wife.
In 1850 he and Mrs. Butler and their three sons crossed to America, which was to be thenceforth the land of their citizenship. On May 5, 1851, he was admitted to the New York East Conference. He served churches in Williamsburg, Shelburne Falls, and Westfield.
On October 10, 1856, while pastor of a church in Lynn, Massachussets, he accepted a call to the superintendency of the proposed India Mission of his Church. With his wife and two of his sons he sailed on April 9 to "lay broad and deep foundations for Methodism in India. " After five weeks of enquiry he decided to open the Mission in Oudh and Rohilkhand (the Northwest Provinces).
He could find no quarters in Lucknow, the capital of Oudh, and therefore moved on to Bareilly in the next province. Hardly had he settled at his task when the Mutiny broke out, compelling him to flee for his life. After the Mutiny he resumed work in Bareilly and also began work in Lucknow.
At Bareilly the first official meeting of the Mission was held on August 20, 1858. The foundation of the Mission was a girls' orphanage, established in Bareilly, and a boys' orphanage, in Lucknow. In time, but under other hands, there developed in the former place a theological seminary and in the latter two standard colleges.
In 1864 Butler fell ill in Calcutta and was obliged to leave India for home, after trying in vain to recuperate by a voyage to Burmah. On arrival in America he was given a charge in Chelsea, Massachussets. Thence he removed to Dorchester Street Church, Boston, from which he retired to take the secretaryship of the American and Foreign Christian Union (organized for work in Papal lands), and to make his headquarters in New York City, while living in Passaic, New Jersey.
He took time in his new post to write his useful volume, The Land of the Veda (1872). When the Methodist Church decided upon a mission in Mexico, Butler, at the age of fifty-five, was given the superintendency. He sailed for Vera Cruz on February 4, 1873, and proceeded to Mexico City, where he soon found quarters for the new work. The evangelical message and the open Bible proved welcome to many.
In 1879, however, lung trouble developed and he was forced to return home. After serving for a time the Freedman's Aid Society, he took a pastorate at Melrose, Massachussets, from which he was invited to visit India again. Accordingly, he sailed from New York in May 1883, bound for India by way of Great Britain and the Suez Canal. He included in his India itinerary all the points at which the Mission was operating and was cordially greeted everywhere.
He returned home in 1885, including a trip through the Holy Land on the way. In 1887 he made another journey to Mexico, this time by rail, and spent the winter there. On his return he gave himself to the "Million and a Quarter for Missions" campaign of his Church. But failure of health caused him shortly to retire to Newton Center, Massachussets, where increasing invalidism held him for eight years.
His end came in the Missionary Rest Home, Old Orchard, Maine. He willed the proceeds of his insurance to the seminary and to the Press in Mexico City. In addition to his Land of the Veda he wrote the article on "Methodist Missions" in Newcomb's Encyclopædia; From Boston to Bareilly and Back (1885); and Mexico in Transition.
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Orphaned soon after birth he was reared by a great-grandmother who instilled into him permanent religious ideals which were realized through Methodist channels.
William Butler was a member of the Freedman's Aid Society.
His first wife died suddenly at Westfield, and on November 23, 1854, he was married in Portland, Maine, to Clementina Rowe of Wexford, England, whom he had met in her father's house, and who came at his persuasion by letter to be his bride.
