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1Title Frame
2The Birth of Benjamin Titus Roberts
3The Ancestry
4Benjamins Boyhood and Youth
5Benjamins Ambition and Gods Call
6Beginning Preparation for the Ministry
7Wesleyan Universitys Historic Revival
8Robertsthe Scholar
9The University Senior Makes a Decision
10A Romance Develops
11Roberts First Pastorate
12The Young Preachers First Sermon
13Benjamin and Ellen Are Married
14The Wedding Trip
15First Pastorate
16Appointment to Pike Hard Going
17Roberts Choice
18Return to Pike A Better Year
19Promoted to Rushford
20Roberts Appointed to a Large City Church
21A Troubled Year at Niagara Street Church
22Roberts Brockport Ministry
23The Albion Pastorate and Trouble in the Conference
24The Pekin Pastorate Roberts Last in Genesee
25Dark Days for Roberts
26Dark Days Continue
27Genesee Lay Reformers Organize
28Clearing Those Expelled
29B.T. Roberts Character Cleared
30Reform Spreads to Illinois
31Roberts Crucial Decision
32The Reformers Decide to Organize a New Methodist
Communion
33The Convention Adopts a Constitution and Elects a
Leader
34The Origin of the Name Free Methodist
35Roberts Leads the Young Church for a Third of a
Century
36B.T. Roberts, Author. Editor. Publisher
37B.T. Roberts, the Preacher
38Roberts Concern for Human Need
39Free Methodism and American Slavery
40The Young Church and National Crisis
41Faith and Works Go Together
42No Peace Without Freedom from Human Slavery
43By All Means Save Some
44A Call for Civil Rights for All
45Roberts Calls for Schools for Freedmen
46The Free Methodist Church and Education
47Roberts Buys Land for a School
48Bishop Roberts Establishes Chili Seminary
49Roberts and the Ministers Intellectual Life
50Roberts and Wesley Agree on Welfare Reform
51Bishop Roberts as Economist
52Free Methodism and the Issue of Oath-bound Secrecy
53Roberts and the Place of Women in the Church
54Roberts Holiness Teachings
55The Spread of Early Free Methodism1860 to 1893
56Homegoing