Butler, Alford Augustus

BUTLER, ALFORD AUGUSTUS: Protestant Episcopalian; b. at Portland, Me., Sept. 23, 1845. He was educated at Griswold College, Davenport, Ia., where he completed his theological education in 1873. He was ordered deacon in the same year, and was ordained priest in 1874. He was successively assistant in Grace Cathedral, Davenport, Ia. (1873), and rector of Grace Church, Cedar Rapids, Ia. (1873–77), Trinity Church, Bay City, Mich. (1877–84), Church of the Epiphany, New York City (1884–91), and Christ Church, Red Wing, Minn. (1891–94). Since 1894 he has been warden and professor of homiletics, liturgies, and religious pedagogy in Seabury Divinity School, Faribault, Minn. He was active in organizing the Parochial Mission Society of the United States, and was chosen secretary of its executive committee, and also took a prominent part in establishing the first deaconess school in the Protestant Episcopal Church. He is likewise a member of the Joint Commission on Sunday Schools and of the General Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church. He has written: How to Study the Life of Christ (New York, 1902); How shall we worship God? (1904); and The Churchman's Manual of Sunday School Methods (Milwaukee, 1906).