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in that place was then in a critical condition 

 owing to various causes and required much wis- 

 dom and patience to hold the class together. The 

 new pastor keenly felt the need of God's help to 

 discharge his duties aright and the needed help 

 was granted to him. God gave him a year of 

 blessing and victory. During the winter he held 

 a long series of revival meetings. Rev. J. G. 

 Terrill and Mrs. E. Sellew Roberts assisted in 

 these meetings at different times. Quite a large 

 number were converted and joined the church 

 who are still standing true. Many were sanctified 

 and the church in general was strengthened. 

 During that year Rev. J. P. Brodhead, now a very 

 acceptable minister in the Pittsburg Conference, 

 and his wife, also Sister Sanf ord and Brother and 

 Sister Tourtelotte, all respected members of the 

 Methodist Episcopal Church, joined the Free 

 Methodist Church. During that winter he also 

 held revival meetings at Cochranton, a town 

 about twenty miles from Franklin. The meet- 

 ings lasted for a number of weeks and at the 

 close Brother Showers organized a small class 

 of about ten members, to whom he preached 

 once a week throughout the remainder of the 

 year. 



The following year, 1892, Conference returned 

 him to Oil City. He was in poor health through- 

 out the year. Besides, his wife suffered for six 



