. The origin and history of the primitive Methodist Church . W. FLAVEL. HY. FLAVEL. MRS. MARSON. had his prompt and rich reward, for the first convert was his own son. For years thenames of \V. and II. Flavel were on the plan together, and then Henry emigratedto Xew Zealand, where he died in the faith. William FlavePs daughter—Mrs. Marson—still survives as the oldest member of the Rugby* Society. After being a mission Rugbybecame an independent station in 1881. The first chapel of 1841 was superseded bythe present excellent chapel in 1878, and recently the Sabbath school has been greatlyenlarg


. The origin and history of the primitive Methodist Church . W. FLAVEL. HY. FLAVEL. MRS. MARSON. had his prompt and rich reward, for the first convert was his own son. For years thenames of \V. and II. Flavel were on the plan together, and then Henry emigratedto Xew Zealand, where he died in the faith. William FlavePs daughter—Mrs. Marson—still survives as the oldest member of the Rugby* Society. After being a mission Rugbybecame an independent station in 1881. The first chapel of 1841 was superseded bythe present excellent chapel in 1878, and recently the Sabbath school has been LFTTEUWoliTH iAMP MEETING 350 PRIMITIVE METHODIST CHURCH. Lutterworth and Rugby have had very dissimilar histories. While the latteraccepted the railway in the beginnings of the railway movement, Lutterworth rejectedit. It seems strange that when it was in question to take the London and NorthWestern via Northampton, landowners and graziers should have fought against theproposal, on the ground that the smoke of the passing engine would seriously discolourthe wool of the sheep, and that the continuous rush of the locomotive through themeadows would so disturb the cattle as to interfere with the process of their the line was diverted from the course originally marked out for it by the engineers,and was made to pass eight miles or so to the left of Lutterworth. Rugby became Dickens Mugby Junction —a noted railway centre, while Lutterworth was left to its bovinesleepiness for a term of years, until the Great Central came along. Lutterworth doesnot seem to have taken to Prim


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