. The origin and history of the Primitive Methodist Church . he Conference Journal of 1853 as President. He willalso become a deed-poll member, and as such attend many Conferences, and by hisintelligence and goodly presence and geniality win many friends. Thinking of Mansfield, who can forget good JoshuaRouse, wire-worker, model superintendent, logician, andan expert and yet sympathetic examiner of probationers,and a familiar figure at Conferences. So we might go on;but duty calls us to another part of the mission-field, andwe must obey. The Great Revival in Leicestershire, progress m
. The origin and history of the Primitive Methodist Church . he Conference Journal of 1853 as President. He willalso become a deed-poll member, and as such attend many Conferences, and by hisintelligence and goodly presence and geniality win many friends. Thinking of Mansfield, who can forget good JoshuaRouse, wire-worker, model superintendent, logician, andan expert and yet sympathetic examiner of probationers,and a familiar figure at Conferences. So we might go on;but duty calls us to another part of the mission-field, andwe must obey. The Great Revival in Leicestershire, progress made by the Connexion in the years1817-18 was, geographically, not in one direction was not the result of a linear but of a centrifugalmovement. The Connexion grew as a tree grows; itspread like a series of constantly enlarging you take Nottingham as your centre you will haveto keep shifting your circumferential line further andstill further back. Progress does not stop in the eastwant to follow its course in the west and south. It is. and JOSHUA ROUSE. north because vou difficult to describe in words an all-round expansion like this, and yet it must be THE PERIOD OF CIRCUIT PREDOMINANCE AND ENTERPRISE. 277 conceived if it cannot be written. Tiierefore, although our attentioa must now fora time be turned to Leicestershire (with Loughborough as a new centre), we mustremember that progress in the direction we have hitherto been following has notrounded itself off and stopped because we cannot for the time attend to it. Unfortu-nately, the official documents of Nottingham Circuit prior to 1824 are no longeravailable to prove this, and the convenient system of branches was not adoptedtill 1819 ; yet there is abundant evidence of an incidental though unofficial kind toshow that while Bourne (and for a time Clowes), Benton, Wedgwood, Heath, and otherleaders of the main movement are hard at work in Leicestershire, what may be calleda skirmishing movement is going
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