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Born 1805, Froom (1965)
Trained at Brown University, Froom (1965)
Charles Fitch, pastor of the Marlboro Street Chapel, Boston. RH (1938)
Presbyterian, Froom (1965)
1836
Charles Fitch, pastor of the Marlboro Street Chapel, Boston. Froom (1965)
May 13, Helped Charles Finney organize New York City's Broadway Tabernacle Church. Fitch preaches the sermon and leads in the formation of the congregation's founding covenant. Ward (1901), p28
1837
Wrote Slaveholding Weighed in the Balance of Truth
1838
Given a copy of Miller's lectures. Froom (1965)
March, Writes letter to Miller stating his agreement, preaches on Second Advent, withdraws after ridicule. Froom (1965)
1839
Pastor of the Free Presbyterian Church of Newark, New Jersey.
Wrote Views of Sanctification
1840
Disagreed with his presbytery over sanctification.
Wrote Guide to Christian Perfection
Withdraws from the Presbytery.
1841
December, Litch visits Fitch. Encourages Fitch to combine his message of Holiness with that of the Second Advent.
Wrote Letter to Rev. J. Litch, on the Second Coming of Christ
1842
Very active in preaching both holiness and the coming of Christ. "My usual practice has been to preach on Holiness in the afternoon, & on the Second Advent in the evening. I have seen saints sanctified & sinners led to Christ." Froom (1965)
May, Boston, At a conference Charles Fitch, and A. Hale, introduced cloth charts of the symbol of Daniel and Revelation, and it was voted to have three hundred of them lithographed, for those who were willing to carry the message. Corliss (1905)
Pastor of the Haverhill, Massachusetts church. Froom (1965).
1843
He and family moved to Cleveland, Ohio; out "West".
Published the periodical The Second Advent of Christ. Froom (1965)
June 21, ... Charles Fitch's periodical, The Second Advent of Christ, published in Cleveland, Ohio, in a "Declaration of Principles" adopted "By the Adventists Assembled in Boston Anniversary Week, May, 1843," and signed by "N. N. Whiting, S. Bliss, T. F. Barry, J. Litch, and C. Fitch," we read:"We have no confidence whatever in visions, dreams, or private revelations. 'What is the chaff to the wheat? saith the Lord.' We repudiate all fanaticism, and everything which may tend to extravagance, excess, and immorality, that shall cause our good to be evil spoken of." —Issue of June 21, 1843.
Daniells (1936)
June, Fitch and Himes speak at camp meeting in Rochester, N.Y. A storm blows down the tent. Uhl (1974)
1844
October 10, Dies, Loughborough (1905) p83
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