Butler, Clement Moore

D.D. (Kenyon College, O., 1847), Episcopalian; b. at Troy, N.Y., Oct. 16, 1810; graduated at Trinity College, Hartford, 1833: and at the General Theological Seminary, New York, 1836. Between 1837 and 1861 he was rector of Episcopal churches in New York, District of Columbia, Ma achusetts, and Ohio; from 1861 to 1864, chaplain to the United- States Emba y at Rome, Italy; from 1864 to 1884, profe or of church history in the Protestant Episcopal Divinity School, Philadelphia. While a pastor in Washington, D.C. (1846-54), he was chaplain of the United-States Senate (1849-53), and in that capacity performed the funeral service and preached the sermon upon the death of Mr. Calhoun and Mr. Clay. These sermons were published by the Senate. He is the author of forty published occasional sermons, and of The Year of the Church: Hymns and Devotional Verse tical Year. For Young Persons, Utica, 1839; The Book of Common Prayer interpreted by its History, Boston, 2d ed., enlarged, Washington, D.C., 1849; Old Truths and New Errors, New York, 1850; Addre es and Lectures on Public Men and Public Affairs, delivered in Washington City, Cincinnati, 1856; Lectures on the Book of Revelation, New York, 1860; The Flock Fed: Catechetical Instruction preparatory to Confirmation, 1862; St. Paul in Borne (lectures in Rome), Philadelphia, 1865; Inner Borne: Political, Religious, and Social, 1866 The Ritualism of Law, 1867; A Manual of Ecclesiastical History (from the first to the nineteenth century), 1868-72, 2 vols.; History of the Book of Common Prayer, 1880; History of the Reformation in Sweden, New York, 1883.