B. T. Roberts
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Benjamin Titus Roberts was an American Methodist bishop. He first trained as an attorney, then entered the ministry in the Genesee Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church of New York State. His m
Painting of Roberts on display at the World Methodist Museum, Lake Junaluska, NC
Benjamin titus roberts portrait
Pew
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A pew is a long bench seat or enclosed box, used for seating members of a congregation or choir in a synagogue, church, wedding chapel, funeral home, cemetery or mausoleum chapel and sometimes a court
B. T. Roberts
…conflict with the conference began in earnest at the Niagara Street appointment for he sought to make the church a "free" church, i.e. eliminate the pew system. Roberts here observed the potential problems of the pew system in which wealthy families could purchase and/or rent pews for congregational…
Traditional solid oak church pews
Box pews in St John the Baptist King's Norton, Leicestershire
Detail of pew 42, Old Ship Church, Hingham, Massachusetts, United States
Jacobean bench end carvings in St Kenelm's Church, Sapperton, Gloucestershire, England