. The origin and history of the Primitive Methodist Church . his^;Memoirs of> Henry Anderton, the old FriarsGreen Chapel deserves to beassociated with his name as one of the places where he displayed that mighty eloquence that touched all hearts and filled every eye (p. 29). It seems, therefore, that the claim of the seven men of Preston to have been thefirst Total Abstinence Society will have to be surrendered; though the story of theorigin of the word tee-total from Richard Turners emphatic utterance of the wordtotal has not, as far as w^e are aware, been disproved. It may have been chall
. The origin and history of the Primitive Methodist Church . his^;Memoirs of> Henry Anderton, the old FriarsGreen Chapel deserves to beassociated with his name as one of the places where he displayed that mighty eloquence that touched all hearts and filled every eye (p. 29). It seems, therefore, that the claim of the seven men of Preston to have been thefirst Total Abstinence Society will have to be surrendered; though the story of theorigin of the word tee-total from Richard Turners emphatic utterance of the wordtotal has not, as far as w^e are aware, been disproved. It may have been challenged,but it still holds the field. As now told, however, the true story of the origin of theTotal Abstinence movement should, if anything, prove more interesting to PrimitiveMethodists than the story it displaces, since it takes us back to the very neighbourhoodof our origins, and brings us once more in touch with some worthy people who in the * • The Beginnings of Total Abstinence. The Warrington Societies of 1830. By ArthurMounfield, 59, Fleet PAGE FROM ROLL BOOKOF THE STOCKTON HEATH SOCIETY,COMMENCING DEC. 23RD, 1830. 476 PRIMITIVE METHODIST CHURCH. Connexions infancy were, in Scripture phrase, its nursing fathers and mothers. Itwas for preaching in Friars Green Chapel that W. Crawfoot got into trouble. It was theEatons who helped him financially when he paid his visit to London along with HughBourne, and theirs was the home Clowes pronounced a pilgrims inn and the bestordered family he had ever seen. This was like the rising of a new star, and its light was brilliant. Such are HughBournes words in speaking of what happened at the Conference of 1831, when theTemperance movement was recognised as making for righteousness and this star did not rise in the east but in the west and, if one may say so, it cameand stood over the spot that owed its existence to the visit of the meteoric LorenzoDow. As still further indications of the spread of Temperance
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