. The origin and history of the Primitive Methodist Church . MOW COP CHAPEL (siDE VIEW). The foreground is past the site of the first Camp Meeting of 1807. benighted districts that in 1800sorely needed evangelising. But what conspicuouschanges the years have brought!In few parts of England is a MOW COP CHAPEL (INTERIOR). 22 PRIMITIVE MLTHODTST CUUKCII. more striking contrast between the state of things prevaiHng in 1800 and 1900 afforded!than in the neiglibourhood of Mow. Ironworks and other industries now givesteady and remunerative employment to an increased population. The conditions ofmate
. The origin and history of the Primitive Methodist Church . MOW COP CHAPEL (siDE VIEW). The foreground is past the site of the first Camp Meeting of 1807. benighted districts that in 1800sorely needed evangelising. But what conspicuouschanges the years have brought!In few parts of England is a MOW COP CHAPEL (INTERIOR). 22 PRIMITIVE MLTHODTST CUUKCII. more striking contrast between the state of things prevaiHng in 1800 and 1900 afforded!than in the neiglibourhood of Mow. Ironworks and other industries now givesteady and remunerative employment to an increased population. The conditions ofmaterial well-being are everywhere to be seen. On hill -and in dale neat cottagesabound—the homes of thrifty, self-respecting, and God-fearing men and women, andthe country is dotted with sanctuaries and Sunday-schools—at once the sign, cause, andeffect of the improvement the century has witnessed. No wonder that one of ourselves-should have broken out into a jingle :— Upon the mossy browOf the venerable MowThere stands a chapel now,Upon a THE CHRISTMAS-DAY CONVERSATION-SERMON. Eut we revert to 1800 and to Mow as Hugh Bourne looked upon it in the early partof that year. His first feeling was not What a fine field of usefulness is here ! butrather Woe is me, that I sojourn in Meshech, that I dwell among the tents of Kedar ! He recalled with a twinge of self-condemnation how at Ridgway he had thought themeans of grace all too scanty. But now, as if to punish him for his undervaluing of SOURCES AND ORIGIN. 23 opportunities, there was an absolute famine of the Word of Life. In this mood Mowwas to him as the hill Mizar, the hill of longing and of wistful memories. With thisregret for what he had lost, there was mingled the more acute feeling of fear for himselflest he should succumb to the dearth of means and the evil examples all around wished the timber were all won and he free to return to more congenial , instead of loosing him, providence proceed
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