. The origin and history of the Primitive Methodist Church . what is valuable and worth preservingboth old and new, and we must adjust our ecclesiastical arrangements to these alteredspiritual conditions. Meanwhile, the name Primitive Methodist was prepared beforehand for us. We donot need the story of James Crawfoots expulsion to accoimt for the assumption of thename. It was inevitable. Hugh Bourne may have been drowsy at the time the namewas taken, but drowsy or wide-awake it would have been the same. We got our namevery much as John the Baptist got his, and presumably the Divine hand was in
. The origin and history of the Primitive Methodist Church . what is valuable and worth preservingboth old and new, and we must adjust our ecclesiastical arrangements to these alteredspiritual conditions. Meanwhile, the name Primitive Methodist was prepared beforehand for us. We donot need the story of James Crawfoots expulsion to accoimt for the assumption of thename. It was inevitable. Hugh Bourne may have been drowsy at the time the namewas taken, but drowsy or wide-awake it would have been the same. We got our namevery much as John the Baptist got his, and presumably the Divine hand was in bothname-givings. Their neighbours and kinsfolk wanted the promising child to be calledZacharias; but the mother said, Not so; but he shall be called John. The fathertook his writing-tablet and wrote, saying, His name is John. Kinsfolk and neighboursmight not like the name. They might object that none of his kinsmen had borne sucha name; but all the same the name was there—waiting, divinely authorised, had to be; or rather, it was 136 PRIMITIVE METHODIST CHURCH.
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