. The origin and history of the Primitive Methodist Church . CAPTAIN E. Andersons tombstone, KILHAM CHURCHYARD. SOURCES AND ORIGIN. 67 had something ^to do with the inception and carrying out of the great camp meetingat Langtoft-on-the-Wolds in August ? Spiritual and individuaHstic as were the aims of the promoters of the first campmeeting, there were some of the speakers from the waggons that day who, beino-far-travelled men, naturally could not refrain from dwelling, for purposes of edificationon experiences they had gone through and events they had taken part in in those daysof sturt and st
. The origin and history of the Primitive Methodist Church . CAPTAIN E. Andersons tombstone, KILHAM CHURCHYARD. SOURCES AND ORIGIN. 67 had something ^to do with the inception and carrying out of the great camp meetingat Langtoft-on-the-Wolds in August ? Spiritual and individuaHstic as were the aims of the promoters of the first campmeeting, there were some of the speakers from the waggons that day who, beino-far-travelled men, naturally could not refrain from dwelling, for purposes of edificationon experiences they had gone through and events they had taken part in in those daysof sturt and strife, and who by so doing imported a deeper meaning into the daysproceedings. Listening to these speakers, their stay-at-home auditory would find theirhorizon insensibly widening, and dimly perceive that to set down or set aside that. KILHAM CHURCH. The Tomb of Captain E. Anderson and his brother is the second from the Porch on your left hand as you enter the Porch. camp meeting as being nothing more than a faddists freak or a glorified giganticreligious picnic, was a conclusion forbidden not only by the condition of their own soulsthat day, which was also the condition of multitudes of people in these parts, but thatit was a conclusion yet more sternly forbidden by the condition of the sorely distractedand disjointed world they were hearing about. And we, coming across these allusionsto current or recent events in the reports of that first camp meeting left to us, do notscout them as irrelevancies, but welcome them as timely and significant of much. Forour founders and fathers being men of imperfect education and contracted outlook, so F 2 68 PRIMITIVE METHODIST CHUKCH. far as world affairs were concerned and jet, being above all, men of such single purposethat they could have said this one thing we do, they have
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