The history of Methodism . take it, go without, orstay at home. The married itinerants, however, could not honorablymaintain their families thus. John Nelson, as we have seen,worked at his trade when lie was not preaching. WilliamvShent, whose name appears on the accompanying facsimile of 588 British Methodism ?V^Z- \^^~ o(— c^,-m- ~ err ^V- y~Aa.{ L/^ f^rx- /Zax^c c)o^f- /7^>, ns~t~ ti^^ A~**t~S C-t—3 en,- A/^T*. Ar- o—t~*^ L-,—> :-S^-C 4*11- co-Ji-E- /zCLy, Ad .a^-Vy o /?Zc.*- «/£»—atyW^ ; Jo ? Co **-si iC -, c#vr7icf FACSIMILE OF AN AGREEMENT MADE BY THE PREACHERS IN 1752. The Barbers
The history of Methodism . take it, go without, orstay at home. The married itinerants, however, could not honorablymaintain their families thus. John Nelson, as we have seen,worked at his trade when lie was not preaching. WilliamvShent, whose name appears on the accompanying facsimile of 588 British Methodism ?V^Z- \^^~ o(— c^,-m- ~ err ^V- y~Aa.{ L/^ f^rx- /Zax^c c)o^f- /7^>, ns~t~ ti^^ A~**t~S C-t—3 en,- A/^T*. Ar- o—t~*^ L-,—> :-S^-C 4*11- co-Ji-E- /zCLy, Ad .a^-Vy o /?Zc.*- «/£»—atyW^ ; Jo ? Co **-si iC -, c#vr7icf FACSIMILE OF AN AGREEMENT MADE BY THE PREACHERS IN 1752. The Barbers Topic of Conversation 589 a document signed by the preachers in 1752, was a barber inBriggate, Leeds. When he became a preacher he employedassistants in his business, to which he returned at intervals,and his shop was a center of Methodist influence. It hadbeen a place of general resort for gossip, and when the barberbecame a Christian rich and poor among his customers heardhis stransre tale of conversion. until it became the talk ofthe town. But, in order to supporttheir families, many of thefirst preachers were compelledto give up traveling. TheConference of 1752 tried toremedy this state of affairsby recommending that thesocieties should in the futurepay each preacher the annu-al sum of £12. For manyyears, however, this wasalmost a dead letter. In1769 a connectional allow-ance of ^ioa year was pro-vided for each preachers wife, and the next year we find apreachers house in the principal Methodist centers. In 1774the rule was made that every circuit shall find thepreachers wife a lodging, coal, and candles, or £ 1 5 per year to procure them for herself. An allowance of £4 a year wasmade for each child. The question of the education of the preachers childrenoccupied the Conference of 1748. The school at Kingswoodwas enlarged, with the help of ,£800 received from some 1111- DRAWN BY P. E. FLINTOFF. AFTER A PHOTOGRAPH. WILLIA^l SHENTS HOUSE. The she and probabl
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