Background
Roads, Charles was born on July 5, 1855 in Hamburg, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Augustus H. and Catharine (Bertram) Roads.
Roads, Charles was born on July 5, 1855 in Hamburg, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Augustus H. and Catharine (Bertram) Roads.
Student Lebanon Valley College, Pennsylvania, Doctor of Divinity, 1896.
Ordained Mechanical Engineering ministry, 1876. Pastor churches at Millersville, 1876-1878, Merion Square, 1878-1881, Mount Joy, 1881-1883, Radnor, 1883-1886, Saint Paul’s Church, Lancsater, 1886-1888, Nineteenth Saint Church, Philadelphia, 1888-1893, Saint Paul’s, Philadelphia, 1893-1896, Trinity Church, Chester, Pennsylvania, 1897. General secretary Pennsylvania State South.S. Association, 1897-1901.
General field secretary Mechanical Engineering South.S. Union, 1901-1907.
General secretary Maryland. South.S. Union, 1907-1909.
Teacher, Ocean Grove Great Bible Class, 1909. Pastor Cumberland Saint Church, Philadelphia, 1909-1911, Shenandoah, Pennsylvania, 1912-1917, Williamstown, Pennsylvania, 1918-1919, Easton, 1919-1924, Upland, Pennsylvania, 1924-1927.
With Washington Bible College since 1928.
Professor archaeology and Biblical psychology, and lecturer on preaching, Columbia Bible Training School. Organized civic association and built new church, Easton. Editorial writer South.S. publications Methodist Book Concern.
President Pennsylvania Christian Endeavor Union, 1895-1897, National Christian Prohibition League (a forerunner of Anti-Saloon League), 1890.
1st president Philadelphia Playgrounds Association, 1887. President Schuylkill Company Methodist Ministers’ Association, since 1912.
Legal counsel in important church trials. Was Prohibition candidate for Congress.
Delegate Prohibition National Convention.
Delegate to General Conference of Methodist Episcopal Church Church, 1904. Author: Little Children in the Church of Christ, 1882. Christ Enthroned in the Industrial World, 1890.
The Fifth Gospel, 1897.
Child Study, 1902; Abnormal Christians, 1905. Sunday School Organization, 1905.
Bible Studies for Teachers, 1906. Rural Christendom ($1,000 prize book, American South.S. Union), 1909.
The Manitoba with a Conscience, 1911.
Studies for Immigrants, 1915. Associate editor The Methodist, 1918. Contributing editor The Bible Champion, Reading, Pennsylvania President Easton Federation of Churches Address: 1316 Vermont Avenue, Washington, District of Columbia.
Married Hettie Afflebach, of Millersville, Pennsylvania, April. Married second, Mistress.