A sensation has been caused by the sudden death of the Rev. Charles Albert Berry, D.D., who for the past 16 years had been pastor of the Queen-street Congregational Church at Wolverhampton. Dr. Berry was conducting a funeral at Bilston, two and a half miles from Wolverhampton, and was in the act of praying, when he dropped dead from heart disease.
Dr. Berry was born at Leigh, in Lancashire in 1852, and educated at the Airdale Independent College, Yorkshire. He became pastor of St. George's-road Church, Bolton, in 1874, and in 1883 assumed the pastorate of the Queen-street Congregational Church at Wolverhampton, which he held till his death. He declined several invitations to settle in London, also a call to Brooklyn, U.S.A., where the pastorate of Ward Beecher's Church was offered to him. He made four trips to America, and on the last occasion addressed mass meetings in favor of the Anglo-American Treaty of Arbitration. So popular did he become in the States that in 1897 he was invited to open Congress as chaplain. In the same year he was appointed chairman of the Congregational Union of England and Wales. In 1895 he was created a doctor of divinity by St. Andrew's University. Dr. Berry made a tour of the world in 1891-92, when he visited Australia and New Zealand.
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