Charles W. Chesnutt to the editor of The Churchman, 27 August 1922
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August 27, 1922.
Editor "The Churchman",
No. 2 West 47th Street,
New York City.
Dear Sir:
There are many of your readers who know the Rev. Dr. Alfred W. Arundel1 and of his many years in Trinity Parish, Pittsburgh. They will be interested to know that, for the last four months,2 he has served Emmanuel Church, Cleveland,3 with great acceptability and with lasting benefit to the Parishioners. Dr. Arundel still retains strength of body and mind and is second to few in the effectiveness of his ministrations. His rendition of the Serivces of the Church has been the subject of universal commendation. His sermons have been distinguished by earnestness and power and have left a lasting impression. He has dealt in a large and liberal way with those questions growing out of the complexity of modern life and never failed to carry home to the hearts of his hearers the immediate need of consecration and obedience.
His many friends will be glad to know, through your columns, of the success which attends his ministry, wherever he goes and we, of Emmanuel Parish will long remember him with gratitude.
Sincerely, a long-time Communicant of Emmanuel Parish.4Correspondent: The Churchman was a nationally distributed American Episcopalian weekly periodical that appeared from 1831 until 1861 and from 1867 until the 1990s; it was published out of New York City from 1880 to 1959. The Churchman did not publish Chesnutt's letter, but printed a short notice about Arundel's return to his New York City address; see "Here and There in the Church," The Churchman (September 9, 1922): 4.
1. Alfred William Arundel (1855–1936) was a White Episcopal clergyman who was originally from the United Kingdom. He emigrated to Ohio in the 1870s and served in Akron, Ohio, before becoming rector of the Trinity Cathedral in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in the early 1890s, a post from which he resigned in 1911 when he became a public advocate of Christian Socialism. Most of his church appointments after 1911 (in New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, and elsewhere) seem to have been of short duration. In the summer of 1922, he was interim rector at Chesnutt's church in Cleveland, Emmanuel Episcopal, before returning to New York City; in the fall of 1923, he served at St. Paul's Church in Canton, Ohio. Eventually, he returned to his native Yorkshire, England. [back]
2. Alfred W. Arundel served as interim rector of Emmanuel Church from May to September of 1922, when Kirk B. O'Ferrall became rector. [back]
3. The Chesnutt family worshipped at Emmanuel Episcopal Church on Euclid Ave and E. 86th St. in Cleveland beginning in 1889. They maintained social connections through this integrated, but predominantly White church. Susan was a member of the church's Women's Guild, Chesnutt occasionally gave readings, and donated to its fundraisers. The involvement of Emmanuel Parish in social work likely contributed to the family's interest in the Settlement House movement. [back]
4. For a draft version of this letter as edited by Alfred Arundel that served as the copy-text for this version, see the enclosure to Arundel's letter to Chesnutt dated August 21, 1922. [back]
