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The Birth of Benjamin Titus Roberts

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The Ancestry

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Benjamin’s Boyhood and Youth

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Benjamin’s Ambition and God’s Call

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Beginning Preparation for the Ministry

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Wesleyan University’s Historic Revival

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Roberts—the Scholar

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The University Senior Makes a Decision

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A Romance Develops

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Roberts’ First Pastorate

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The Young Preacher’s First Sermon

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Benjamin and Ellen Are Married

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The Wedding Trip

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First Pastorate

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Appointment to Pike: Hard Going

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Roberts’ Choice

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Return to Pike: A Better Year

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Promoted to Rushford

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Roberts Appointed to a Large City Church

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A Troubled Year at Niagara Street Church

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Roberts’ Brockport Ministry

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The Albion Pastorate and Trouble in the Conference

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The Pekin Pastorate: Roberts’ Last in Genesee

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Dark Days for Roberts

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Dark Days Continue

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Genesee Lay Reformers Organize

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Clearing Those Expelled

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B.T. Roberts’ Character Cleared

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Reform Spreads to Illinois

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Roberts’ Crucial Decision

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The Reformers Decide to Organize a New Methodist

Communion

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The Convention Adopts a Constitution and Elects a

Leader

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The Origin of the Name “Free Methodist”

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Roberts Leads the Young Church for a Third of a

Century

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B.T. Roberts, Author. Editor. Publisher

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B.T. Roberts, the Preacher

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Roberts’ Concern for Human Need

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Free Methodism and American Slavery

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The Young Church and National Crisis

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“Faith and Works Go Together”

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No Peace Without Freedom from Human Slavery

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“By All Means Save Some”

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A Call for Civil Rights for All

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Roberts Calls for Schools for Freedmen

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The Free Methodist Church and Education

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Roberts Buys Land for a School

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Bishop Roberts Establishes Chili Seminary

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Roberts and the Ministers’ Intellectual Life

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Roberts and Wesley Agree on Welfare Reform

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Bishop Roberts as Economist

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Free Methodism and the Issue of Oath-bound

Secrecy

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Roberts and the Place of Women in the Church

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Roberts’ Holiness Teachings

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The Spread of Early Free Methodism—1860 to 1893

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