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Charles Fitch
1805–1844
A fiery New England preacher and reformer, he became one of the best-known voices of the Millerite movement in the years leading up to 1844. His surviving sermons and pamphlets reflect the urgency, moral seriousness, and social activism of the Second Great Awakening.
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About the author
Born in 1805 in Connecticut, he was an American clergyman educated at Brown University who first served in the Congregational ministry. Early in his career he was also active in reform causes such as temperance and abolition, linking him to the wider religious and social currents of his time.
He is best remembered for his role in the Millerite movement, where he became a prominent preacher of Christ's expected near return. He wrote sermons and religious pamphlets, including the influential message often known as Come Out of Her, My People, and helped shape the movement's public voice in the early 1840s.
He died in 1844, just before the movement's expected climactic date in October of that year. Although he is remembered more as a preacher than as a literary author, his printed addresses, sermons, and religious tracts remain part of the historical record of nineteenth-century American revivalism.