In harmony with the suggestion made by Bro.  Butler in his report, for a convention of our brethren who look upon slavery as a moral evil, call was made for such a meeting to convene in the city of Indianapolis on the 1st day of November, 1859.  About six hundred signatures were attached to the call, including many of the most intelligent and influential members of our churches in the North.  After much misrepresentation and denunciation, the convention was held in the Christian chapel in Indianapolis; a constitution for a missionary society adopted and the necessary officers appointed.  Many of the churches gave it a most hearty endorsement.  It was deemed expedient that Bro.  Butler, before returning to Kansas, should visit as many churches as practicable.  Accordingly, he wrote to the Luminary under date of December 26, 1859, from Springville, Ind., as follows: 

I have thought best, before returning to Kansas, to make a short visit to this part of Indiana, where, according to report, almost all the brethren are opposed to our recent missionary movement.  In twenty-three days I have preached thirty-two discourses.  For the mission we raised, cash, $55; pledges, $43.  Three have been added by baptism, and one from the Presbyterians who had formerly been immersed.  Some of our preaching brethren in this part of the State conclude to take the advice of Gamaliel:  “And now I say unto you, refrain from these men, and let them alone; for if this counsel or this work be of men, it will come to naught; but if it be of God, ye can not overthrow it; lest happily ye be found even to fight against God.”  In the cause of a common piety and a common humanity.

Bro.  Butler returned to Kansas, and resumed his labors wherever a door of entrance was opened to him.  Angry clouds thickened across the political and religious horizon, until, shortly, the storm broke forth in unwonted fury, and swept away from the national statute book every vestige of American slavery.  For a quarter of a century longer he continued in the service of the Master, laboring successfully in every department of the ministerial work—­evangelical, pastoral, and in the advocacy of all moral reforms, and especially as a leader in the warfare waged against the saloon interest in Kansas.  He lived to see his adopted State take an advanced position in the legal prohibition movement, slavery in the United States abolished, and the cause of Bible Christianity flourishing as it had never done before.  He commanded the respect of all who knew him, and was regarded as one of the chief founders of the church.  His presence at all the Christian conventions in and out of the State was always hailed with tokens of gladness.  Still he was aware that there were individual members, and even some churches that never forgave him for the active part he took against the extension of slavery, and his indictments against it as a moral evil—­a sin against God and man.  Fifty years of his eventful