. The origin and history of the primitive Methodist Church . d the THE PERIOD OF CIRCUIT PREDOMINANCE AND ENTERPRISE. 339 Act of 1812, his nervous desire that the Connexion should keep on friendly terms withthe Government lest camp meetings should be put down—these feelings surelyculminated and found singular and dramatic expression when Hugh Bourne invadedthe Conference Chapel at Tunstall—which happened to he his own—and demand**!the expulsion of a delegate on the ground that he was a speeching Radical. Andbecause Hugh Bourne was master of the situation he had his way. We can easily seenow, t
. The origin and history of the primitive Methodist Church . d the THE PERIOD OF CIRCUIT PREDOMINANCE AND ENTERPRISE. 339 Act of 1812, his nervous desire that the Connexion should keep on friendly terms withthe Government lest camp meetings should be put down—these feelings surelyculminated and found singular and dramatic expression when Hugh Bourne invadedthe Conference Chapel at Tunstall—which happened to he his own—and demand**!the expulsion of a delegate on the ground that he was a speeching Radical. Andbecause Hugh Bourne was master of the situation he had his way. We can easily seenow, that this act was as irrelevant and futile as the brandishing of Mrs. Partingtonsmop, or, lest that should seem too undignified a comparison—let us say—as futile asCanutes rebuke at Gainsboro to the advancing tide. Who the speeching Radical at the Conference of 1821 was, cannot now beascertained. It could not well be John Skevington, who was then but nineteen yearsof age. But we are not so sure, after all, whether Hugh Bourne had not a hand in the. THAT MAN SHALL NOT BE IN THIS CHAPEL. keeping out of John Skevington. It may be a mere coincidence, or it may be of suchsignificance as to furnish a clue, that the resolution which was Loughborough Circuitsanswer to John Skevingtons application for redress and reinstatement, was written byHugh Bourne himself. But why? Well; if in 1838 Skevington was alreadya veteran Radical, he must in 1836 have been for some time known as that mostobjectionable of characters—a speeching Radical. Hugh Bournes assured know-ledge of this fact, coupled with his well-known views, and his ascendency in Lough-borough Circuits councils, may have been largely responsible for the refusal to openthe door for readmission. The door is shut: it is well; let it remain shut. Staffordshire, as well as Leicestershire, had its sturdy Primitive Methodist Chartist,whose story has recently been told with quite remarkable sympathy and graphic skill z 2 340 PRIM
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