. The origin and history of the Primitive Methodist Church . ore bleak, desolate, andlonely. In the whole neighbourhoodof this moorland there were only sometwo or three other houses, and beyondthese was the wide stretch of the was no road, public or private,not even a foot-road to the house oranywhere near it, and to complete theisolation and loneliness, the only accessto the house was over a wide brook upona plank, and often for weeks together,the family saw no one beyond theirown circle, and of the great outsideworld they knew but very little.^ If the bleak Yorkshire fells are nee
. The origin and history of the Primitive Methodist Church . ore bleak, desolate, andlonely. In the whole neighbourhoodof this moorland there were only sometwo or three other houses, and beyondthese was the wide stretch of the was no road, public or private,not even a foot-road to the house oranywhere near it, and to complete theisolation and loneliness, the only accessto the house was over a wide brook upona plank, and often for weeks together,the family saw no one beyond theirown circle, and of the great outsideworld they knew but very little.^ If the bleak Yorkshire fells are neededto account for the sombre genius of theBronte sisters, so it needs Fordhays Farmfidly to account for Hugh Bourne. Tothe very last his moorland origin stoodconfessed. His native environment had its counter[)art in his strong, rugged nature,and especially in that bashfulness which was so marked a feature of the man. Norneed we wonder at this; for he must have had a temperament sanguine indeed to have* Memorial of the Centenary of Hugh Bourne, 1872, p. HUGH History of Counexion, pub. 1823. 8 PRIMITIVE METHODIST
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