The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-03-21
DIR. BUTLER LECTURES
To Good Audience ut tho Zane Street M.
Z. Church.

To Good Audience ut tho Zane Street NJ.
Il. Church.
The Zane Street NJ. E. Church in East
Wheeling, was well filled last evening
by an audience eager to hear another Of
Rev. William Buffers missionary talks.
He was fully as interesting and enter
tanning as at any OF his other meetings
OF this week, and the audience was o
well pleased one at his conclusion.
Tonight DR.. Butler will deliver an.
other lecture in the Fourth Street
Church, his subject this time being
'ReCent Revolutions in the Land OF the
Montezumas," which DR.. Butler says
will be ian exposition OF the events
which led to the overthrowot Papal
despotism; the triumph OF civil and re.
ligious freedom and the introduction oil
evangelical missions into liberated
Mexico"
DR.. Butler went as a missionary 10 the
country Of which he will talk tonight,
a few years after his return from India.
He went 10 India first In 1856 and re-
manned there for ten years. He was the
first missionary OF the Methodist church
to 90 to the city OF Lucknow, and he was
tile first missionary Of any denomina.
ton TO begin the work Of spreading the
Gospel in the Gangetic valley, a tract Of
country Tour hundred and fifty miles
long and about two hundred miles
wide, estimated to be inhabated at that
time by 100000 people as cruel, su.
perstitious and ignorant as any people
who ever lived. DR.. Butler and his wife
went at that time To the residency OF the
British authorities, who demonstrated
and protested when they heard Of what
DR.. Butler proposed 10 do. They told
him he would certainly be destroyed.
So distrustful were they even OF the In.
habitants Of Lucknow, that the morning
following bis arrival they would not per-
init him to wander about the city ex-
cept on an elephant and escorted by
mounted guard. DR.. Butler says the
elephant he rode on that morning was
the largest he ever saw, larger even than
the late Jumbo. 1t had been one OF the
state elephants Of king the English
had short time before deposed. From
his high perch on tho animals back, DR.,
Butler could look over and into the low
habitations, and the sights no witnessed
that morning were too awiully immoral
almost, TO be spoken Of.
In 1884 Dr.. Butler and wife returned
TO India. When they first went there
the distance from their landing port TO
Lucknow had TO DO traversed In palan.
quins and the time occupied was TWEEN.
ty.three days, at a cost Of over 500 each.
In 1884 railroad tickets cost $40 each
and superbly equipped railway landed
them In Lucknow Ia torty,nine hours.
Nearly 200 people were at the depot
at 10 o'clock at night to receive them,
headed by two doctors OF divinity
who when lads, had been among those
the Doctor and his-wlle taught years be-
fore. They were escorted TO Miss Tho.
burns house, where bright decoration
shone out-"Weleome TO the father and
mother OF WISCONSIN India" The next
day they visited monster camp meet:
Ing In progress In one Of the parks Of
Lucknow. There was but little
left TO remind them Of the
dark days spent there twenty.
Eve years ago, except the British uni.
forms and the hills In which they sought
refuge from the Sepoy savages. This
last statement, OF course, excludes the
warm greetings they received from the
friends made years ago. The seed sown
had multiplied 10 rapidly and the con-
trasts were 30 great that " BCaFcely SEEM
ed the same land.