. The origin and history of the primitive Methodist Church. itated.* We need not nervously set about trying to eliminate the Dow-factor from the origin of the English (amp Meetings, as though the admission of any indebtedness to him would detract from the originality of Bourne. There are few perfectly original things in this world; and, as Dr. Clifford says: It is little, vain-glorious souls who are afraid of citing the work-- of others, lest somebody should presume to think they themselvee are nol absolutely original. Really capable minds, instead of shrinking from quotation, delight in it. M
. The origin and history of the primitive Methodist Church. itated.* We need not nervously set about trying to eliminate the Dow-factor from the origin of the English (amp Meetings, as though the admission of any indebtedness to him would detract from the originality of Bourne. There are few perfectly original things in this world; and, as Dr. Clifford says: It is little, vain-glorious souls who are afraid of citing the work-- of others, lest somebody should presume to think they themselvee are nol absolutely original. Really capable minds, instead of shrinking from quotation, delight in it. Men and movements are very largely but multiplex quotations from other men and other vements, and the function of biography, and yet more the function of history, is to discover such quotations and trace them to their ..nee. In this sense, Bourne himself and the first and succeeding camp meetings were quotations. John Wilkes once said that Hugh Bourne made him think of • Quoted from the authors smaller History of the Primitive Methodist Connexion, p. SOURCES AND ORIGIN. 591 George Fox, the Quaker; * a certain Deist, fresh from a discussion with him, remarkedthat he had just seen Lorenzo Dows brother. There was a measure of truth inboth observations, whicli were like the attaching of quotation marks to a human , because of the influence he exerted on Bourne and others, Lorenzo Dowwas one factor amongst several, of which Mow Cop Camp Meeting was the jointresultant. This and only this is meant by the statement: If there had been no Dow,there would have been no Mow. The few grains which, when added to the heapalready in the scale, make the balance even, must not have all the credit for theequipoise gained. While some would minimise our indebtedness to Lorenzo Dow in order, possibly,to magnify Hugh Bourne and the leaders of the Camp Meeting movement, others,.apparently for the very opposite reason, would seem to have an interest in emphasisingand exaggerating t
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