At this meeting the leading temperance men of the State were
present — Samuel F. Gary, of Cincinnati ; I. A. Justice, of Youngs-
town ; S. G. McKee, of Alliance, and Col. I. W. Tucker, of Colum-



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bus. On Lord's day morning, religious services were held, when
Mrs. Butler delivered a temperance sermon. Meeting General Gary
in the afternoon, he remarked, "If you can preach as well as your
wife, you are a good preacher."

At the General Convention, at Louisville, in 1880, she spoke for
the C. W. B. M., and at various State and district conventions she
was heard on the many important questions included in gospel tem-
perance and missionary work during every year since that time.
As late as the last winter she labored in the northeastern part of
the State of Pennsylvania, delivering twenty-eight discourses,
usually an hour in length, in twenty-five days, besides shorter talks
and addresses in addition. In her labors among the churches she
sought to arouse Christian women to organize auxiliary societies of
the C. W. B. M. The other arm of her work was to organize
Christian women into auxiliaries of the W. C. T. U. In both of
these works, which lay so near to her heart, she was very successful.
Early in this year she was appointed a State organizer of the N. W.
