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CHARLES ALBERT BERRY (1852-1899)

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 808 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CHARLES See also:ALBERT See also:BERRY (1852-1899)  , See also:English non-conformist divine, was See also:born on the 14th of See also:December 1852 at Bradshawgate, See also:Leigh, See also:Lancashire . At the See also:age of seventeen he entered Airedale See also:College, See also:Bradford, to See also:train for the Congregational See also:ministry, and in 1875 became pastor of St See also:George's Road Congregational See also:church, See also:Bolton . He became widely known as a See also:man of administrative ability, a vigorous See also:platform See also:speaker and an eloquent preacher . In See also:July 1883 he undertook the pastorate of the church at See also:Queen See also:Street, See also:Wolverhampton, with the supervision of nine dependent churches in the neighbourhood . Here again he exercised a wide See also:influence, due in See also:part to his evangelical conviction, eloquence, broad views and See also:powers of organization, but also to the magnetic force of his See also:personality . In 1887 he went to See also:America in fulfilment of a promise to . See also:Henry See also:Ward See also:Beecher of See also:Brooklyn, and received a unanimous invitation to succeed Beecher in what was then the best-known See also:pulpit in the See also:United States . See also:Berry, however, See also:felt that his See also:work See also:lay in See also:England and declined the invitation . In 1892 he took part in a See also:conference at See also:Grindelwald on the question of See also:Christian See also:Reunion, and subsequently, with See also:Hugh See also:Price See also:Hughes and See also:Alexander See also:Mackennal of Bowdon, conducted a See also:campaign throughout England, introducing the ideas and principles of See also:Free Church federation . He was the first See also:president of the Free Church See also:congress . He played an effective part in expressing the popular See also:desire for See also:peace between England and America in reply to President See also:Cleveland's See also:message on the Venezuelan boundary dispute, and was invited to See also:Washington to preach in connexion with the endeavour to establish an See also:international See also:arbitration treaty . In 1896 he was elected See also:chair-man of the Congregational See also:Union of England and See also:Wales .

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health began to fail, and he died suddenly on the 31st of See also:January 1899 . His published See also:works consist chiefly of addresses, and two volumes of sermons, See also:Vision and See also:Duty, and Mischievous Goodness . (D .

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