. The origin and history of the primitive Methodist Church. day morning class and a fortnightly preaching service. D 34 PRIMITIVE METHODIST CHURCH. It was arranged that Hugh Bourne should preach on July 11th, advantage heing takenof its being an off Sunday on the plan. He himself had wished that the service mightbe held out of doors; but Joseph Pointon was no believer in open-air worship, and vetoedthe proposal. But held in the open air the service was, after all; for the fame of therevival, and the announcement that the man was going to preach who, according toThomas Maxfield had driven Danie
. The origin and history of the primitive Methodist Church. day morning class and a fortnightly preaching service. D 34 PRIMITIVE METHODIST CHURCH. It was arranged that Hugh Bourne should preach on July 11th, advantage heing takenof its being an off Sunday on the plan. He himself had wished that the service mightbe held out of doors; but Joseph Pointon was no believer in open-air worship, and vetoedthe proposal. But held in the open air the service was, after all; for the fame of therevival, and the announcement that the man was going to preach who, according toThomas Maxfield had driven Daniel Shubotham crazy, drew such a number of peopletogether from far and near that the house could not hold them. Then its like tobe out of doors, said good Joseph Pointon. The words, in his use of them, simplyexpressed a physical necessity; but to us, who see them in the light of after events,the words convey the hint of a moral necessity as well. There was a needs-be forout-of-door religious services, not so much because chapels were always full, as because. III (.11 boi um: PREACHING his first sermon. they were bo often nearly empty. Ho we have here, in Joseph Pointons Then itslike to be out oi lours, another of those homely sayings in the vernacular which of our history occasionally meets with as he passes along—sayings in which hecannot bul find a deepei meaning than may have been felt at the time even by thosewho 11 it uttered them. Two, at. least, of these voces populi we have already noted,and others will challenge attention as we follow our narrative. I hi ii Bourne Stood Up and took for his text, Ileh. \i. 7, which speaks of the faithof preached with Ids left hand before bis face fingers outspread likeon.; who looks forth from a barred The attitude was very characteristic ofthe man wle-n conversing or addressing an audience, and was noted as a peculiarityt,, the end. Behind this fleshy screen did diffidence entrench itself, not suffering
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