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The Birth of Benjamin Titus Roberts

The Ancestry

Benjamin’s Boyhood and Youth

Benjamin’s Ambition and God’s Call

Beginning Preparation for the Ministry

Wesleyan University’s Historic Revival

Roberts—the Scholar

The University Senior Makes a Decision

A Romance Develops

Roberts’ First Pastorate

The Young Preacher’s First Sermon

Benjamin and Ellen Are Married

The Wedding Trip

First Pastorate

Appointment to Pike: Hard Going

Roberts’ Choice

Return to Pike: A Better Year

Promoted to Rushford

Roberts Appointed to a Large City Church

A Troubled Year at Niagara Street Church

Roberts’ Brockport Ministry

The Albion Pastorate and Trouble in the Conference

The Pekin Pastorate: Roberts’ Last in Genesee

Dark Days for Roberts

Dark Days Continue

Genesee Lay Reformers Organize

Clearing Those Expelled

B.T. Roberts’ Character Cleared

Reform Spreads to Illinois

Roberts’ Crucial Decision

The Reformers Decide to Organize a New Methodist

Communion

The Convention Adopts a Constitution and Elects a

Leader

The Origin of the Name “Free Methodist”

Roberts Leads the Young Church for a Third of a

Century

B.T. Roberts, Author. Editor. Publisher

B.T. Roberts, the Preacher

Roberts’ Concern for Human Need

Free Methodism and American Slavery

The Young Church and National Crisis

“Faith and Works Go Together”

No Peace Without Freedom from Human Slavery

“By All Means Save Some”

A Call for Civil Rights for All

Roberts Calls for Schools for Freedmen

The Free Methodist Church and Education

Roberts Buys Land for a School

Bishop Roberts Establishes Chili Seminary

Roberts and the Ministers’ Intellectual Life

Roberts and Wesley Agree on Welfare Reform

Bishop Roberts as Economist

Free Methodism and the Issue of Oath-bound

Secrecy

Roberts and the Place of Women in the Church

Roberts’ Holiness Teachings

The Spread of Early Free Methodism—1860 to 1893

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