. The origin and history of the Primitive Methodist Church . ING-PLACE. at Norton and learned that Wedgwood had preached with good acceptance. By the summer of 1813 it is evident the Primitive fathers had learned the value of Wedgwood as a camp-meeting labourer since Clowes, who is due at a camp meeting on the borders of Staffordshire, naturally thinks it will be well to secure the company and help of this new recruit to the cause. He therefore calls at the home of the Wedgwoods on the Saturday, and finds John quite characteristically praying aloud in his room for the unconverted members of hi
. The origin and history of the Primitive Methodist Church . ING-PLACE. at Norton and learned that Wedgwood had preached with good acceptance. By the summer of 1813 it is evident the Primitive fathers had learned the value of Wedgwood as a camp-meeting labourer since Clowes, who is due at a camp meeting on the borders of Staffordshire, naturally thinks it will be well to secure the company and help of this new recruit to the cause. He therefore calls at the home of the Wedgwoods on the Saturday, and finds John quite characteristically praying aloud in his room for the unconverted members of his family, while the head of that family is perhaps quite as characteristically at the door of his sons chamber bidding him be quiet. The rest had better be told in Clowes own words; to condense the narrative would but spoil it. It is a vivid travel-picture relating to the highland region in the neighbourhood of Leek, and has this additional interest for us that it was in a lonely farm-house on this same Morridge that Joseph Wood, , first General Sunday. MERCASTON CHAPEL. School Secretary, a President of Conference, and Principal of Manchester College, firstsaw the light. We will only add, as we see Wedgwood and Clowes setting out,that it would have been well, considering where Clowes was going and who was hiscompanion, if he had taken the precaution of carrying his trusty lantern, his companionon many a darksome journey. John and I soon started for the camp meeting ; we preached to all that we metwith on the road till the day began to wear away. I warned John that we ought THE PERIOD OF CIRCUIT PREDOMINANCE AND ENTERPRISE. 167 to hasten on our journey, as we had a large common to pass over. But it was tono purpose; Johns zeal for souls overcame his prudence; accordingly, as I hadfeared and intimated, we found ourselves utterly lost upon the common in theapproaching darkness of the night. We knew nothing in what direction to
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