. The origin and history of the Primitive Methodist Church . lliam Sanderson. As a motherless lad he hadbeen apprenticed to a worthless tailor and draper, who tried to make up for hi&thriftlessness by taking a public-house. That boded ill for young Sanderson, who hadalready taken a few steps on the primrose path; and it was well for him that PrimitiveMethodism was brought to the neighbourhood, and that Thomas Wood, his companion,had got religion before him. He attended a camp meeting in the Gravel Pits atMarket Weighton in the summer of 1819, and in February, 1820, he found salvationin the War
. The origin and history of the Primitive Methodist Church . lliam Sanderson. As a motherless lad he hadbeen apprenticed to a worthless tailor and draper, who tried to make up for hi&thriftlessness by taking a public-house. That boded ill for young Sanderson, who hadalready taken a few steps on the primrose path; and it was well for him that PrimitiveMethodism was brought to the neighbourhood, and that Thomas Wood, his companion,had got religion before him. He attended a camp meeting in the Gravel Pits atMarket Weighton in the summer of 1819, and in February, 1820, he found salvationin the Warter Wesleyan Chapel, where, at that time, our people worshipped, though THE PERIOD OF CIRCUIT PREDOMINANCE AND ENTERPRISE. 401 afterwards they were discharged therefrom. On his way home he shouted through the street He has pardoned all my sins; I am happy. His nights were now given, not to fiddling and dancing, but to prayer and reading. One December night he was lockedout, and had to pace the streets for hours because he had become engrossed listening. THE BARN, POCKLINGTON, WHERE CLOWES PREACHED. to some ones reading aloud Kussels Seven Sermons.* It was in PocklingtonCircuit William Sanderson tried to preach for the first time, an experience which he has described in his own inimitable way,thus: As soon as i opened my mouth I shut myeyes, and when I opened my eyes I shut my yet this timid, stumbling novice in the art ofspeaking, became second only to John Flesher asa preacher—if indeed he were second. For sucha competent judge as the late George Race, of Weardale,regarded him as Primitive Methodisms greatest livingpreacher, and would gladly journey to Newcastle to hearSanderson when he paid his annual visit to NelsonStreet. Both in speaking and writing his sentences werepointed and sparkling with brightness. That was a mostapt characterisation passed on his preaching by the agedsister of John Oxtoby. Passing through the village aftersome years of absence, Sanderso
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