. The origin and history of the Primitive Methodist Church . pool and felt the presence of God. When he gets to Newcastle he notes :— I understand that all the travelling preachers in the Sunderland District arezealous teetotalers ; and you will be aware that the Lord owns the labours of theteetotaler. I am told that Sunderland, Berwick, Westgate,and Newcastle-on-Tyne Circuits are going on Lord owns the labours of the teetotalers in the con-version of souls. To Him be glory and dominion for everand ever. Amen. Then before folding his letter he adds a long postscript to saythat h
. The origin and history of the Primitive Methodist Church . pool and felt the presence of God. When he gets to Newcastle he notes :— I understand that all the travelling preachers in the Sunderland District arezealous teetotalers ; and you will be aware that the Lord owns the labours of theteetotaler. I am told that Sunderland, Berwick, Westgate,and Newcastle-on-Tyne Circuits are going on Lord owns the labours of the teetotalers in the con-version of souls. To Him be glory and dominion for everand ever. Amen. Then before folding his letter he adds a long postscript to saythat he has good news out of Cornwall from Joseph Preston,who is a zealous teetotaler; and at Durham, where he iswriting, they had a meeting the night before when teetotalismwas advocated in a religious way which gave great letter does get finished at last by an interesting referenceto Preston : I think they will, like our brethren at Preston inLancashire, go into the way of holding their own teetotal meetings and holdingthem in their own JOSEPH PRESTON. 474 PRIMITIVE METHODIST CHURCH. Hugh Bourne was very impressionable to new ideas which he had the knack ofappropriating and exploiting as though he himself had discovered them. In this, as inother respects, he presents a striking contrast to William Clowes who could not soreadily throw off the old and put on the new, and modify the convictions and habits ofhis prime. Temperance as a specific movement was one of the manifestations ofthat altruistic spirit which now in the thirties began to breathe upon society and theChurches, softening the hard outlines of individualism and beginning its work—nowgoing on with accelerated rapidity—of blending men together in a conscious communityof interest. Hugh Bourne caught the early fannings of this movement, and, as wehave seen, with the years it got increasing power over him. But Temperance in itsoriginal crude form, as expressed in the moderate pledges of the early
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