. The origin and history of the Primitive Methodist Church . RAMSOR Second Camp Meeting. New Chapel in background. Meeting Clowes ventured to announce as his text, He that hath the Son hath life, he-had at the time no part whatever in what some one has called the plan-etary did not figure there even as a modest asterisk, much less had he the honour ofhaving his name, or the initials of his name, emblazoned thereon. So it was somethingof an event when on October 9th, 1809, the Methodist class-leader and exhorter preachedhis first sermon. He did so well, we are told, tha
. The origin and history of the Primitive Methodist Church . RAMSOR Second Camp Meeting. New Chapel in background. Meeting Clowes ventured to announce as his text, He that hath the Son hath life, he-had at the time no part whatever in what some one has called the plan-etary did not figure there even as a modest asterisk, much less had he the honour ofhaving his name, or the initials of his name, emblazoned thereon. So it was somethingof an event when on October 9th, 1809, the Methodist class-leader and exhorter preachedhis first sermon. He did so well, we are told, that the people encouraged him to goforward. Soon after this—precisely how soon we know not*—he was required to- * W. Garner, in his Life of Clowes, gives October 9th as the date of the trial sermon. Butthat is, of course, an error, as October 9th was the date of the Ramsor Camp Meeting. Veryshortly after this, says Clowes, • I was called upon to preach a trial sermon SOURCES AND ORIGIN. REV. JONATHAN EDMONDSON. preach his trial-sermon at Tunstall before the superintendent of the Burslem Circuit. At the close of the service the Rev. Jonathan Edmondsonobserved—You have done very well; but you will kilLyourself. The non-predictive part of this sentence hadweight as coming from one who in the pulpit was said to-be judicious, pithy, and practical, and who was theauthor of sermons once widely known. It has often been noted as singular that Clowes trialsermon, the indispensable step to plan-promotion, shouldhave followed hot-foot on his active participation in theRamsor Camp Meeting. It is singular, and remains so--after all attempts at explanation. Assuming—what it-seems unreasonable not to assume—that at the time ofthe trial sermon the superintendent was privy to Clowesproceedings at Ramsor, we cannot but recall how differentwas the treatment meted out to Hugh Bourne after NortonCamp Meeting. He certainly was not rewarded as Clowes-was by being invited to go up high
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