. The origin and history of the Primitive Methodist Church . re, which no HHm^ ; -^ doubt prepared the way for the success of Thomas King and his colleagues in theimmediately following years. Still moreimj)ortant is it for us to know that on leaving Lincolnshire, Oxtoby, still in conjunctionwith Nicholson, laboured at North and South Cave, Newbald, Elloughton, and othervillages in the neighbourhood of Hull. Oxtoby must have heard of the Primitivesand their doings when in North Lincolnshire, for they were already at work in thecounty, and as near as Gainsborough and Scotter; and in Hull he was
. The origin and history of the Primitive Methodist Church . re, which no HHm^ ; -^ doubt prepared the way for the success of Thomas King and his colleagues in theimmediately following years. Still moreimj)ortant is it for us to know that on leaving Lincolnshire, Oxtoby, still in conjunctionwith Nicholson, laboured at North and South Cave, Newbald, Elloughton, and othervillages in the neighbourhood of Hull. Oxtoby must have heard of the Primitivesand their doings when in North Lincolnshire, for they were already at work in thecounty, and as near as Gainsborough and Scotter; and in Hull he was evidentlyacquainted with Mrs. Woolhouse and her circle, to say nothing of George Nicholsonand his friend Jane Brown. No more is needed to explain his welcome of Clowes, andthe fact that he at once cast in his lot with the new community and became Clowesauxiliary, accompanying him on his mission to Swanland, Elloughton, Brantingham,Ellakar, and North and South Cave, at three of which villages Oxtoby had recentlylaboured in conjunction with George VILLAGE CHURCH AND ELM-TREE UNDERWHICH OXTOBY HELD MEETINGS. 368 PRIMITIVE METHODIST CHURCH. But the man 1 We should Hke to see him in his habit as he lived, and to knowthe man as well as the circumstances of his life. Take, then, a pen-and-ink likeness ofOxtoby, which, though imperfect, is accurate as far as it goes. Picture to yourselfa man a little below the average height, broad-set, features a little sharp, his garb plainand unpretentious to a degree, brown coat, small-clothes and gaiters, chocolate necker-chief, and unclerical hat, his hair seeming to belong to one living in a world where thecoiffeur is unknown, and all the arts of perfumery and adornment have still to beinvented. The marks of care and taste in outward adorning are to him symptoms ofworldly pride and vanity, to be shunned, spurned, and denounced. Intellectually, Oxtoby must be acknowledged to have been a man of slender abilities;nor were his obvious de
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