What a Beautiful Religion

Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 18, 1859

What a Beautiful Religion.

Mr. Pierce Butler, who recently sold four hundred slaves, and who was formerly the husband of Mrs. Fanny Kemble, is said to be a prominent and active member of the Episcopal church in Philadelphia, of which the late Dudley A. Tyng was rector. He held the office of vestryman, was foremost in the Sabbath school, choir, and Bible class, and after the expulsion of Mr. Tyng, his influence in the church was such as to enable him to introduce as the successor to Mr. Tyng a clerical slave-holder from South Carolina. Such are the men who control our city churches and hold the rod over the heads of our ministers!—Sel.