The life and letters of Charles Butler . raph taken in 1882 LI F TTERS ;s object idled a at his house in February, 1852. A comms 3 ap- pointed of which he was made chairn A state- ment was issued, and this was followed bv an ap-peal which secured financial stability until 1870and 1872, whe e munificent gifts of Mr. JamesBrown, Governor Morgan and others providedfor a liberal endowiru a new building. In 1890 Charles Butler gave a large sum ofmoney to New York University as a tribute tothe memory of my beloved son A n Butler, who graduated from it in the of 1853 and who died in June of the year
The life and letters of Charles Butler . raph taken in 1882 LI F TTERS ;s object idled a at his house in February, 1852. A comms 3 ap- pointed of which he was made chairn A state- ment was issued, and this was followed bv an ap-peal which secured financial stability until 1870and 1872, whe e munificent gifts of Mr. JamesBrown, Governor Morgan and others providedfor a liberal endowiru a new building. In 1890 Charles Butler gave a large sum ofmoney to New York University as a tribute tothe memory of my beloved son A n Butler, who graduated from it in the of 1853 and who died in June of the year 1856, and also as a trib-ute to the memory of my beloved brother Benja-min F. Butler, who was the founder of the LawSchool. in the University and its first professor,who died in November, 1858, in the city of Paris. At the same time he made a similar to endow a Professorship of Biblical in Union Seminary, naming it in r emi- nt Dr. Edward Robinsor n pro- »r in the seminary a? for ma ears. It so happ p- this Cr ^ con- on b. ivocate ents. ma OF CHARLES BUTLER of the higher criticism whose echoes are hardlyyet silent. It was characteristic of the broad-minded man who founded the professorship thatalthough then nearly ninety, and come to yearswhen conservatism in most men has become afixed habit in life, he yet led the van on the lib-eral side of the contest. What he was through all its years to this insti-tution may be told in the words of Dr, Prentiss,spoken in 1886 at the semi-centennial of UnionTheological Seminary: Gladly too would Ispeak of some of the living benefactors towhom we owe so much; not to please them,for they have a better reward, but to give ventto the grateful emotions that fill our hearts. Ofone of them, indeed, it would be a wrong notto speak; and my words, I know, will find acordial response in all your breasts. I thinkGod has spared him to more than fourscoreyears, to the end that in his person we might seewith our eyes to-day what sort of men plannedand re
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