. The origin and history of the primitive Methodist Church . lvation Meeting be planned at Stapleford. Meeting passed September 23rd, 1839: That THE PERIOD OF CIRCUIT PREDOMINANCE AND ENTERPRISE. 285 others came to catch the stimulus, and taste the excitement the presence and impactof the crowd would afford. If they did not put it clearly to themselves that it waspersonal and social salvation they wanted, we may well believe in a dim vague way theyhoped that by attending the Ranters Camp Meeting that day their lives would somehowbe lightened and brightened. As things went then, Woodhouse Eaves
. The origin and history of the primitive Methodist Church . lvation Meeting be planned at Stapleford. Meeting passed September 23rd, 1839: That THE PERIOD OF CIRCUIT PREDOMINANCE AND ENTERPRISE. 285 others came to catch the stimulus, and taste the excitement the presence and impactof the crowd would afford. If they did not put it clearly to themselves that it waspersonal and social salvation they wanted, we may well believe in a dim vague way theyhoped that by attending the Ranters Camp Meeting that day their lives would somehowbe lightened and brightened. As things went then, Woodhouse Eaves was a convenient centre for a camp was four miles from Loughborough, eight from Leicester, seven or eight from EastLeake, twelve from Ashby, and eighteen from Nottingham. There were contingentsfrom all these places present. It must have been a vast multitude that came togetherthat day. Tradition, disdaining figures, falls back on hyperbole, and as though it weredescribing the course of some devastating army that licks up all that is round ahout. WOODHOUSE PRESENT CHAJEL. as the ox licketh up the grass of the field, it goes on to tell how on the day of theWoodhouse Eaves Camp Meeting the village wells were drunk dry, and the foodsupply gave out ! In sober truth, the company that came together on this great field-day must have been immense. It was not difficult to reach the people in Leicestershireduring these early years : they had the spirit of hearing, and the villages were fairlypopulous, so that it was often true to the letter that listening thousands gatheredround. Nothing strikes us more than .the size of the congregations John Harrisonnotes as everywhere listening to him during the three months he spent in Leicestershirewhile the Great Revival was in progress; and though it is easy to over-estimatenumbers, we cannot think of John Harrison as prone to exaggeration of this kindAt Hoteby, on May 12th, he preached to about a thousand people, who behaved well, 286
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