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34o UNITED METHODIST FREE CHURCH. Henry Pethick, William Downing, John Reed, William Holloway, Arthur Peter, Samuel Sandercock, Peter Facey, William Prout, and John Tubb, upon trust for "the Bible Christian Connection." The land and buildings cost about £750. The chapel will accommodate 160 persons. Clje OmteO jfletijotitst JTree Clwrcl). In the year 1834 some discontent arose among leading members of the Wesleyan body concerning the government of their Church. This led to the formation of an impor- tant sect, which called itself the Wesleyan Association. Out of this grew, in the year 1849, a Wesleyan Reform Association. In 1857 these two societies amalgamated, and became the United Free Church Methodists. The earliest of these associations held its first meetings for divine service at Launceston in the Western Subscription Rooms. In 1840 the local members purchased the site of their present chapel in the Station Road, opposite the Grammar School in St. Thomas Hamlet. This good building will accommodate 350 persons, and has a schoolroom on its basement floor. The adjoining preacher's house was built in the year 1876, and the chapel was reseated and otherwise improved in the year 1881. It is conveniently arranged as a place of worship, and has an inclosed frontage.