I think it was in relation to this incident that Chesterton wrote "The Higher Unity" (chnaging the name out of a sense of discretion):

It was Isaiah Bunter
Who sailed to the world's end,
And spread religion in a way
That he did not intend.

He gave, if not the gospel-feast,
At least a ritual meal;
And in a highly painful sense
He was devoured with zeal...