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Benjamin Stone Roberts was born on July 25, 1823 in Gowanda, Cattaraugus County, New York, the son of Titus and Sally (Ellis) Roberts. He was a descendant of William Roberts of East Hartford, Connecticut, whose father (Robards), husband of Catharine Leete, or Leeke, emigrated to New England about the middle of the seventeenth century.
As a boy Benjamin showed more than ordinary mental alertness, won renown in the spelling matches of the countryside, and revealed a genius for mathematics. At the age of sixteen he was teaching school.
In 1842 he entered a law office in Little Falls, New York, but returned to his home town two years later to continue his legal training in an office there. About this time he experienced conversion and a call to the ministry. After a few months' preparation in Lima Seminary, he entered the sophomore class of Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, in 1845, and graduated in 1848.
That same year he was admitted to the Genesee Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church on trial. He was ordained deacon, September 29, 1850; and elder, September 12, 1852.
Until the fall of 1858 he was pastor of various churches in Western New York. Roberts was one of a group of preachers in the Genesee Conference who laid much stress on the doctrine of Christian perfection, or sanctification, and whose piety was fervid and aggressive. They felt that the Conference as a whole had flagrantly departed from the precepts and practices of early Methodism, and condemned especially violation of the Discipline rules regarding plain churches with free seats and the wearing of adornments; the compromising attitude of the Church toward slavery; and membership of Christians in secret societies.
They also contended that the Conference was virtually controlled by a band of secret-society men. A conflict arose, carried on in part through pamphlets and religious periodicals, which resulted in disciplinary measures being taken by the Conference against some of the reformers. On specifications based on an article entitled "New School Methodism, " published in the Northern Independent of Aurora, New York, in 1857, Roberts was charged with unchristian and unmoral conduct. At the annual meeting of the Conference, 1857, he was tried, found guilty, and reprimanded.
At the Conference of the following year, because of the republishing and circulation of his article - with which he claimed to have had nothing to do - he was expelled. Against both decisions he appealed to the General Conference, but without avail.
A result of this disturbance was the organization at Pekin, New York, in August 1860, of the Free Methodist Church, of which Roberts was elected the first general superintendent, an office which he held until his death, thirty-three years later. During this period he served the interests of the growing denomination vigorously and in manifold ways.
In January 1860 he established the Earnest Christian, which he published and edited for the remainder of his life; from 1886 to 1890 he was also editor of the Free Methodist.
His death occurred at Cattaraugus, New York, in his seventieth year.
He took the leading part in the founding of Chili Seminary (A. M. Chesbrough Seminary) at North Chili, New York, in 1866, and served for a time as its principal. In the midst of his varied duties, which entailed much travel, he found time to write several books, among them: Fishers of Men or, Practical Hints to Those Who Would Win Souls (1878); Why Another Sect (1879); First Lessons in Money (1886), called forth by the prevailing discussion of the silver question; and Ordaining Women (1891), in which he advocated on Scriptural grounds the right of women to be admitted to the ministry.
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On May 3, 1849, he married Ellen Lois Stowe, by whom he had seven children.
