Charles Lewis Slattery

Bishop Charles Lewis Slattery was best known to New York and the Century in the decade before 1922, when he was rector of Grace Church and before his ecclesiastical promotion to the Massachusetts diocese. Dr. Slattery, coming to the Broadway Parish a churchman little known to his new parishioners, took up the work of Dr. Huntington, a task not easy for a much younger man and a stranger to perform; but he met the exacting test with perfect tact. Sooner than had at the outset seemed possible, he won a place in the regard of his congregation which rapidly ripened into affection. It is their testimony that, at times of affliction among his parishioners, he would at once be with the family, who were thereafter bound to him by the strongest personal ties. Even on the anniversary of joyful or sorrowful occasions, he always wrote personally, showing that he shared in the feelings revived by it. Dr. Slattery was an indefatigable writer, a lecturer at the General Theological Seminary, a sympathetic preacher at Harvard, and chairman of the commission to revise the Book of Common Prayer.

Alexander Dana Noyes
1931 Century Association Yearbook