Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1892-06-24
TO LEAVE ST. PAUL.
A Former New Haven Baptist Past

Former New Haven Baptist Pastor
May Go to Chicago or Bro oklyn.
Rev. Mr.. Butrick of st. Paul, Mimi,
formerly pastor of the First Baptist church
this city, and who was visiting here two or
three weeks ago, is probably soon to leave
St. Paul, where he has made a brilliant
record for his plucky and sturdy stand in
that city against corruption and vice in
public places, waging warfare against
prize fighting and liquor selling in that
city, at first almost single handed, that at
tracted wide attention throughout all Min
nesota. Prominent Baptist friends of Mr..
Butrick in this city are of the impression
that Mr.. Butrick will soon be in charge of
one of the leading Baptist churches either
of Chicago or of Brooklyn. The st. Paul
Dispatch gives Mr.. Butrick the following
handsome tribute editorially:
The announcement made in these col
umns on Saturday that there existed q
possibility, if not probability, that the
Rev. w. d. Butrick would leave st.
elsewhere was read with deep regret
by thousands of our people who have
never seen Mr.. Butrick and who are
not of his religions persuasion. He has
won for himself high place in the es-
TEEN and confidence of all public-spirited
men. Never in search of public atten-
ton, he has confined himself to the rigid
discharge of his ministerial duties as pas
tor of the First Baptist church, yet when
the public interests demanded the cooper
alton of all good citizens to stay the tide
of corruption and official irresponsibility
which had risen 30 high as to endanger
the very foundation Of public ethics, he
was among the most resolute of those who
safeguarded the community against the
perpetuation of the dangers by which we
were encompassed.
Indeed, long before worldly considera-
tions would permit the average citizen to
make his condemnation known Mr.. Butrick
through his pulpit warned the people
against the certain consequences of oontin-
ued inaction. While others of his calling
either shrewdly kept their mouths shut or
skunk away from the scene of moral duty
which confronted them, he quietly but ir-
resistibly prosecuted his work of redeem
ing the city. We know of no more MEM
cradle episode connected with the
overthrow of official ruffianism in this
community on May last than the
appearance of Mr.. Butrick in the polling
place in one of the most depraved and
dangerous of precincts, and the casting of
LIB VoIo aInlust the J0ors OF the mugs VINO
were congregated there.
How influential was the example of Mr..
Butrick events have shown. No individ-
ual is entitled to larger share of the
credit of the political revolution which
took place last election day than he, and
no one of those who participated in the
result is at all as far removed from politi-
cal or party considerations or influences.
To have such q man leave this city at
this time, when the work of social and po-
htieal publication has merely begun, and
when the labors of men as courageous a.
he will for the next two or three years be
of inestimable value in putting things to
right, is little less than public calamity.
But Mr.. Butrick's labors lie In another
sphere. His mission Is q more exalted one
than that of removing public evils and de-
voting his energies to the temporal con-
Germs of men. The Dispatch has but to
say that while we deeply deplore, In COM
mon with our fellow citizens, the prospeo-
tive departure Of Mr.. Butrick. we would
gladly acquiesce were that gentleman HIM
self convinced that by the removal his CO.
pacity for good in his sacred calling would
DO enhanced.