. The origin and history of the Primitive Methodist Church . naturally it made a deep impression on him, so that when he came towrite his reminiscences he speaks of little else save that he records how a persecutor 272 PEIMITIVE METHODIST CHUECH. was removed by being drowned in the river ; and he ends his references to Shelfordby this enigmatical sentence : But I left this place with some hopes ; I resembleda bark tossed with the tempest and exposed to the yawning gulf. The completest account we have of the Shelford tug of war is furnished bya contemporary observer—with every detail duly noted
. The origin and history of the Primitive Methodist Church . naturally it made a deep impression on him, so that when he came towrite his reminiscences he speaks of little else save that he records how a persecutor 272 PEIMITIVE METHODIST CHUECH. was removed by being drowned in the river ; and he ends his references to Shelfordby this enigmatical sentence : But I left this place with some hopes ; I resembleda bark tossed with the tempest and exposed to the yawning gulf. The completest account we have of the Shelford tug of war is furnished bya contemporary observer—with every detail duly noted and in its place—so that forresult we have a true story with its proper beginning and end. The writer was JohnParrott, jun., of East Bridgford, and the narrative, though relegated by Mr. Herodto the foot of his pages and printed in small type,* deserves to be given in extenso hereas an authentic document—the more so as it is written in a lively and graphic style,giving one a very favourable opinion of the writers literary ability. Says Parrott :—. STOKE FERRY, RIVER TRENT. Directly after the Camp Lovefeast of June, 1817, an opening presented itself inShelford—a village in the vicinity, displg^ying some rural beauty, and of some note asthe family burying-place of the Earls of Chesterfield, whose hereditary estate stretchesfar away round the village, in which is only one plot of ground, about some half acre,not belonging to that valuable estate. In this village one Joseph Vickerstaff openedhis door for preaching. His house stood on a strip of waste land by the roadsideleading to Stoke Ferry. Many souls were converted to God beneath its very humblethatched roof, and a living Church sprang up within this domicile of stud and mud,twhich faced the rather imposing and substantially built parish church. This upstart(as some designated it) primitive Church gave unpardonable offence to the National * Herod : Biographical Sketches, &c., footnote on pp. Stud, the uprigh
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