Butler, James Glentworth

BUTLER, JAMES GLENTWORTH: Presbyterian; b. at Brooklyn, N. Y., Aug. 3, 1821. He was educated at New York University (did not graduate), Union Theological Seminary (1846–47), and Yale Divinity School, being graduated from the latter in 1849. After being a resident licentiate at the same institution in 1849–50, he was ordained to the Presbyterian ministry late in 1852 and was pastor of the Walnut Street Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia, Pa., until 1868. He was then elected corresponding secretary of the American and Foreign Christian Union, a position which he retained three years, after which he was pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, Brooklyn, for two years (1871–73). In 1874 he retired from the active ministry, and has since lived the life of a private scholar. In addition to a number of briefer contributions, he prepared The Bible Reader's Commentary, New Testament (2 vols., New York, 1879), which was afterward enlarged under the title Bible Work (11 vols., 1892) and made to include the Old Testament; and Vital Truths respecting God and Man (Philadelphia, 1904).