A short history of Independent Methodism : a souvenir of the hundredth annual meeting of the Independent Methodist Churches, 1905 . MEMORIAL TO PREACHERS, FRIARS GREEN. motive of bitterness and no painful incident of severance totinge the memory of the past with regret. Among the preachers who formed the first Society—thenames of others have not been handed down—were RichardHarrison, Richard Mills, Peter Reid, Saul Rigby,William McGuiness and John Meredith. Peter Phillips was then in his nineteenth year and canscarcely have had a leading voice in the counsels of the THE QUAKER-METHODISTS. 7 so
A short history of Independent Methodism : a souvenir of the hundredth annual meeting of the Independent Methodist Churches, 1905 . MEMORIAL TO PREACHERS, FRIARS GREEN. motive of bitterness and no painful incident of severance totinge the memory of the past with regret. Among the preachers who formed the first Society—thenames of others have not been handed down—were RichardHarrison, Richard Mills, Peter Reid, Saul Rigby,William McGuiness and John Meredith. Peter Phillips was then in his nineteenth year and canscarcely have had a leading voice in the counsels of the THE QUAKER-METHODISTS. 7 society ; yet the crisis strongly affected him and stirred himto much thinking. To his son William—who wrote aninteresting manuscript biography after his fathers death—Peter stated that the circumstance caused him to study care-fully the New Testament type of Church and led him toconclusions from which he never found reason to depart. Perhaps this enquiry into New Testament practice had. MEMORIAL TABLET TO PETER PHILLIPS. much more to do with the course of events than might atfirst be supposed, for Peter Phillips was influential beyondhis years. When their position was assailed it w as Peter whogave the historic answer that If it could be shown that amans preaching was better because he was paid for doing itthey would admit their error, and it was Peter who laiddown as a guiding maxim for his friends We have a rightto our views, but no right to be angry with those who differfrom us. 8 THE QUAKER-METHODISTS. The separation took place in 1796. The meeting atwhich they formally organised a society is stated to havetaken place in a room behind the premises, then a grocersestablishment, next door to the Rose and Crown inBridge-street, but the date has not been preserved. This room served as a meeting place for some little from Rose and Crown Street by a staircase, itwould prove a central and convenient meeting-place. Thepremises—now part of an electric li
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