Introduction

Biography

Charles was the son of Ben­ja­min Al­bert­son and Mar­tha El­ma Bow­man. He mar­ried twice, to Flor­ence Ro­mer and Per­me­lia Hogg.

A Me­thod­ist Epis­co­pal min­is­ter, he served in the North In­di­ana Con­fer­ence; Er­ie Con­fer­ence; Gen­esee (now West­ern New York) Con­fer­ence; and the Phi­la­del­phia Con­fer­ence (1888–1903).

From 1892–95, he was at the First Me­thod­ist Epis­co­pal Church, James­town, Penn­syl­van­ia. In 1904 he moved to the Pres­by­ter­ian de­no­mi­na­tion.

He re­ceived his DD de­gree in 1899, and was the 1910 com­mence­ment speak­er at Syr­acuse Uni­vers­ity, New York.

When his first wife, Flor­ence, died in 1926, he was pas­tor at the La­fay­ette Av­enue Pres­by­ter­ian Church in Brook­lyn, New York.

Works

• Death and Af­ter­wards, 1906
• The Re­al­ity of Re­li­gion (New York: Flem­ing H. Re­vell, 1928)
• Lyra Mys­ti­ca: An An­tho­lo­gy of Mys­ti­cal Verse, with Will­iam Ralph Inge (New York: Mac­mil­lan, 1932)
• The Min­is­ter’s Book of Pray­ers (New York: Flem­ing H. Re­vell, 1941)