. The origin and history of the primitive Methodist Church . THE HILT. STAKE, I >A IN. and still more the adhesion of three preachers—men of standing and business ability,added to those there already were, would seem to justify making Darlaston thusearly the head of a Wesl Midland Circuit, desirable as that arrangement was on theground of convenience. The regulation of the Preparatory Meeting requiring travelling preachers to furnishtheir Circuit Committeei each month with extracts from their Journals, soon bore fruitin the Waga im in communications which are like dispatches from th
. The origin and history of the primitive Methodist Church . THE HILT. STAKE, I >A IN. and still more the adhesion of three preachers—men of standing and business ability,added to those there already were, would seem to justify making Darlaston thusearly the head of a Wesl Midland Circuit, desirable as that arrangement was on theground of convenience. The regulation of the Preparatory Meeting requiring travelling preachers to furnishtheir Circuit Committeei each month with extracts from their Journals, soon bore fruitin the Waga im in communications which are like dispatches from the seat of war. THE PERIOD OF CIRCUIT PREDOMINANCE AND ENTERPRISE. 521. WILLIAM CARTER. The first reports of this kind relating to Darlaston we meet with, were written byThomas Brownsword and James Bonsor, who both began their labours in the cireuil almost immediately after its formation. They tell us of the places they visited—Bilston, Tipton, Wednesbury, Darlaston, etc., of the open-air services and house prayermeetings they held; of the varying spiritual results which followed. It is a record ofhard and successful evangelistic labour, told in the briefest, barestway, and quite wanting in those details which would justify([notation here. But each preacher had an early experience oflegal persecution to report, which varies his ournalistic summaryof work done, and demands our notice Thomas Brownsword might be a boy-preacher, but he wasevidently a man in courage ; and he tells his story in such a modestand even reticent way that Hugh Bourne feels it necessary tosupplement his narrative. On July 8th, T. Brownsword preachedat Round Oak in the morning, and
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