. The origin and history of the primitive Methodist Church. T1IK LATE Ml!. .lollX WOOD. THE LATE MR. THOMAS WOOD. were lodged against it no less than 336 petitions—so bulky that they impeded themovements of my lords. The bill had to be dropped, but its dropping was theimmediate raising of the Protestant Society for the Protection of Religious Liberty, ofwhich John Wilkes, who had to do with the preparation of the Deed Poll of ourChurch, was the secretary. The year 1812 saw the obnoxious Conventicle and FiveMile Acts wiped off the Statute Book. We have said thus much in order to place the secon
. The origin and history of the primitive Methodist Church. T1IK LATE Ml!. .lollX WOOD. THE LATE MR. THOMAS WOOD. were lodged against it no less than 336 petitions—so bulky that they impeded themovements of my lords. The bill had to be dropped, but its dropping was theimmediate raising of the Protestant Society for the Protection of Religious Liberty, ofwhich John Wilkes, who had to do with the preparation of the Deed Poll of ourChurch, was the secretary. The year 1812 saw the obnoxious Conventicle and FiveMile Acts wiped off the Statute Book. We have said thus much in order to place the second camp meeting in its properhistoric setting. That being done, certain special features of that camp meeting,which might easily be passed over as due to nothing but the personal idiosyncrasiesof Hugh Bourne, are seen to have been the outcome of prudent foresight, and are fullof significance. They have the Conventicle Act at the hack of them. When we aretold that it began to be whispered Hugh Bourne was a political ringleader, andmost likely a traitor; t
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