. The origin and history of the Primitive Methodist Church . Dead Lane deed giving the trustees power to sell, W^ildburtook over the chapel along with its liabilities. We say the facts are obscure, but theyare capable of being so construed : and it is certain that at a circuit-meeting it was concluded not to follow up the chapel case. What is much moredifficult to understand is why the society thus put to the streetshould have been deserted by the authorities. With such men asThomas King (1830-1) at the head of affairs, there must surelyhave been some reasons unknown to us for apparently casti
. The origin and history of the Primitive Methodist Church . Dead Lane deed giving the trustees power to sell, W^ildburtook over the chapel along with its liabilities. We say the facts are obscure, but theyare capable of being so construed : and it is certain that at a circuit-meeting it was concluded not to follow up the chapel case. What is much moredifficult to understand is why the society thus put to the streetshould have been deserted by the authorities. With such men asThomas King (1830-1) at the head of affairs, there must surelyhave been some reasons unknown to us for apparently casting thesociety adrift in this way. Still, the members were not lost tothe Church of Christ. The bulk of them, we are told, unitedthemselves with the Arminian or Faith Methodists of Derby—the community which afforded a temporary home to DinahMorris and her husband. In 1844 Marktield was revisited byour people, and in 1842, during the superintendency of ThomasWebb, a new Connexional Chapel was erected for the congrerration and the society of forty THE PERIOD OF CIRCUIT PREDOMINANCE AND ENTERPRISE. 323 The regulation establishing District Committees was made in 1828 ; but DistrictBuilding Committees, as distinct from these, are first provided for in the Conference]\[inutes of 1835. We judge the jjropriety of establishing a Committee of such a kindhad been forced on the attention of the authorities by various warning examples ofrecklessness and mismanagement. When what has hitherto very largely been anevangelistic movement, carried on in the open-air or in houses and hired rooms, beginsto consolidate itself; when it has to acquire property, and to raise and administer fundsfor the maintenance and management of such property,—then the time will soon comewhen the need will be felt for some central, independent, expert authority to overseethis important material side of the united societies work. From an inspection of theMinute Book of the Nottingham District Building Com
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