Shrini singh biography of william butler

Clementina Butler January 7, — December 5, was an American evangelist and author. She was a founder of the Ramabai Association, an organization that established the first school in India for widowed women. William Butler : Two Empires and the Kingdom , , as well as Pandita Ramabai Sarasvati : pioneer in the movement for the education of the child-widow of India Her father, Rev.

William Butler , was commissioned in to open mission work for the Methodist Episcopal Church. Her brother, John Wesley Butler , was an author and served as a Methodist missionary to Mexico for more than four decades.

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After passing through great perils during the Sepoy rebellion of , Bareilly was settled as headquarters. The family moved their home seventeen times during the next eight years according to the needs of the work. Returning to the United States, after a few years' rest, Dr. Butler was requested to organize mission work in Mexico.

There the linguistic ability of the daughter was of great service. In , Butler went with her parents to revisit India, and her observations during an extended tour in that country served as the theme of many of her addresses and articles. On account of the infirmities of age and the heavy responsibilities they bore for so long, Dr. Butler settled quietly in Newton Centre, Massachusetts , and from their home, the daughter went out to inspire others with her own belief in the possibilities for women everywhere, when aided by Christianity.

Butler was interested in missionary work of all kinds, medical missions for the women of the East being her favorite subject. As a King's Daughter , she worked in the slums of Boston , besides pleading in the churches and on public platforms for the needy in other countries.