. The origin and history of the primitive Methodist Church. ng the course of our history we have workedamongst peasants and potters, pitmen and puddlers. If so, we have been true to ourorigin, for we began among these classes of workers and, the physical geography ofStafford and the industrial life of its crowded population being wdiat they were wecould not well have begun among any other ; nor could we have begun our workamong any sections of the community that more needed a rousing evangelism. * Though Mow, we are told, was formerly written Mole, we need not infer that the namewas given in i
. The origin and history of the primitive Methodist Church. ng the course of our history we have workedamongst peasants and potters, pitmen and puddlers. If so, we have been true to ourorigin, for we began among these classes of workers and, the physical geography ofStafford and the industrial life of its crowded population being wdiat they were wecould not well have begun among any other ; nor could we have begun our workamong any sections of the community that more needed a rousing evangelism. * Though Mow, we are told, was formerly written Mole, we need not infer that the namewas given in irony or .to express a fancied resemblance to a mole-hill, though such a derivation ispossible enough. Mow may be the slightly disguised Celtic Meol or Mel, a bare chalk-hill,or it may, more probably, be the Saxon Mow, a stack or heap, as in barley-mow; and as Copis the good old word for the top, summit, or crest, Mow-Cop will be no hybrid compound, buta pure Saxon double designation denoting the highest point of the ridge. c 18 PRIMITIVE METHODIST SOURCES AND ORIGIN. 19
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