. The origin and history of the primitive Methodist Church . their Masters generalcommission, so that their itinerant movements were almost as natural as the movementand direction of flowing water. They simply walked on and lifted up their voice, andevangelised in street or on village green ; so that when in January, 1818, Hugh Bourne 282 PRIMITIVE METHODIST CHURCH. came on his first Loughborough round, it was to prune and water the new and vigoroussocieties planted by others who had moved on, going further into the country tbreak up the fallow-ground. An incidental verification of these views
. The origin and history of the primitive Methodist Church . their Masters generalcommission, so that their itinerant movements were almost as natural as the movementand direction of flowing water. They simply walked on and lifted up their voice, andevangelised in street or on village green ; so that when in January, 1818, Hugh Bourne 282 PRIMITIVE METHODIST CHURCH. came on his first Loughborough round, it was to prune and water the new and vigoroussocieties planted by others who had moved on, going further into the country tbreak up the fallow-ground. An incidental verification of these views of our origins, so far as they relate toBarrow-on-Soar, is supplied by the very first article in the first number of the monthlyMagazine, 1819. In the memoir of Elizabeth Ainsworth there given, it is stated thatshe, her mother, and two brothers were religiously awakened under a sermon preachedby John Hallsworth at Barrow about the beginning of the winter of 1817-18. Weshould hardly have expected to meet Avith John Hallsworth, of Mercastons name as. IV I III l:< II. Till; FIRST PREACHING-PLACE WAS JUST OUTSIDE CHlKCH GATE. a pioneer missionary in these parts, as Ids sphere is supposed to have lain farther east,and chiefly in Lincolnshire ; but the evidence is indisputable, and all the moreinteresting because unexpected. We may safely conclude that ever since JohnBallsworths riflil there has existed a Primitive Methodisl Society in good BishopI: Bridges place of nativity. Bourne visited it on January 26th, 1818, and underrather unfavourable circumstances: for in hurriedly passing out of Loughborough hewalked full againsl a posj and hurl himself very much. But this accident did not deterhim from preaching, and he had a glorious manifestation. The converting work was-till going on in L821, a the Journal of Robert Bent shows. Bents name will befound ii the Loughborough Plane in close connection with Bishop, Frier and Pryor. THE PERIOD OF CIRCUIT PREDOMINANCE AND ENTERPRISE. 283
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