At a Convention held at Pekin, in August, 1860, the Free Methodist Discipline was adopted, and B. T. Roberts elected General Superintendent.

The Genesee Conference of the Free Methodist Church was organized at Rushford, Allegany County, N. Y., under the Discipline, in October, 1860.

Five preachers were received into full connection, all of whom had been preachers in the M. E. Church.

Seven preachers were received on probation.

The total number of members reported we' do not find recorded.

The Western Conference of the Free Methodist Church was organized under the Discipline, at Wayne, DuPage County, Ills., June. 14, 1861.

Three preachers were received into full connection, one of whom had been recently pastor of a Congregational church, and one, years before, had been a traveling preacher in the M. E. Church.

Twenty preachers were admitted on probation. The total number' of members reported was 511. The first General Conference was held in October, 1862.

We give statistics for that year, and for each subsequent four years:

Of the preachers now belonging to the Free Methodist Conferences, only nineteen, we believe, ever be-longed to any Conference in the M. E. Church. So there does not seem to be any propriety in calling this movement a secession.

They have twelve Annual Conferences, extending from New York to Kansas.

They have founded two schools, of the rank of academies, which are in successful operation one at North Chili, Monroe Co., N. Y., the other at Spring. Arbor, Jackson Co., Mich.

There is, under the patronage of the denomination,. a monthly magazine, THE EARNEST CHRISTIAN, de-voted to experimental and practical piety. It was. started in 1860 by its present editor and publisher,. Rev. B. T. Roberts: also a weekly paper, The Free Methodist, published by Messrs. Baker & Arnold, at Sycamore, Ills. They also publish two Sabbath-school papers, The Pearl and The Lily.

As far as we can judge, the denomination is on the whole, in a flourishing condition.

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