. The origin and history of the primitive Methodist Church . pent powers that he might preach tothe waiting people. He stood up in Thirsks spacious market-place to speak in the 408 PRIMITIVE METHODIST CHURCH. name of Jesus, and also in that of Stokesley, under Roseberry Topping, where a drunkenman tried to disturb the service, but God put a hook in his jaw. Such were some of the conditions under which Clowes did his work in this district;and yet his faith, his tact, his personal magnetism gave him power with men. Housesand hearts were alike thrown open to him; and, in the short period of eight
. The origin and history of the primitive Methodist Church . pent powers that he might preach tothe waiting people. He stood up in Thirsks spacious market-place to speak in the 408 PRIMITIVE METHODIST CHURCH. name of Jesus, and also in that of Stokesley, under Roseberry Topping, where a drunkenman tried to disturb the service, but God put a hook in his jaw. Such were some of the conditions under which Clowes did his work in this district;and yet his faith, his tact, his personal magnetism gave him power with men. Housesand hearts were alike thrown open to him; and, in the short period of eight weeks, hecreated a new circuit—or rather laid the foundations of three circuits and what cameout of them. Here is Clowes own unadorned statement of what he did on thismission :— After making a plan to direct my colleagues in this mission, in which I openedmany places and travelled four hundred miles on foot, my whole expensesamounting to thirty shillings, I set off for the Hull September Quarter-day, 1820,travelling by way of Thirsk, Ilipon and STOKES1EY. 11 ut tun Rudby—now Lrompton—Circuit, was destined to show too, that W. Clowescould not only build oil hi- own Inundation, but also re-build what others had throwndown. There lies before us the evidence of this, in an unpublished MS., written inClowes own crabbed hand, in which Ik; simply, yet pathetically, describes hisexperiences as a repairer of the lucach. Thomas Johnstone, a Hull Circuit preacher,had resigned beca i e be could aot meet certain grave charges that had been preferred linn ; ami, marking his opportunity, had entered the Brompton Circuit andsought, with lome degrei oi access, to alienate the societies and get hold of theButton Rudby Chapel which had willed |<» tin Connexion. In this critical stateof ailaii the I I inference of L823 requested the Hull Circuit to send down W, CI the circuit from total wreck. So he went down, with what feelings •?•? -an imagine, t., lake up the heav
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