. The origin and history of the primitive Methodist Church. pel, but at the time ofwhich we are writing, the serviceswere held at Woodhouse Green—a quarter of a mile off, in the big parlourof a farmhouse wherein the Baptists had been used to worship, until the societybecame so reduced that the room was offered to our evangelists. The other ENGLESEA BRCOK CHAPEI.(Exterior.) 124 PRIMITIVE METHODIST CHURCH. places on the plan, not as yet particularised, must be content to be visuallyrepresented through the medium of the engravings interspersed in the text. Let us now turn for a moment to the seve
. The origin and history of the primitive Methodist Church. pel, but at the time ofwhich we are writing, the serviceswere held at Woodhouse Green—a quarter of a mile off, in the big parlourof a farmhouse wherein the Baptists had been used to worship, until the societybecame so reduced that the room was offered to our evangelists. The other ENGLESEA BRCOK CHAPEI.(Exterior.) 124 PRIMITIVE METHODIST CHURCH. places on the plan, not as yet particularised, must be content to be visuallyrepresented through the medium of the engravings interspersed in the text. Let us now turn for a moment to the seventeen preachers who have their names on the plan. With some of them,such as James Nixon and preciousThomas Woodnorth (as in oneplace Hugh Bourne calls him) wehave by this time grown there are others on the listwho must have a word for identifi-cation and remembrance. Amongstthese is Richard Bayley, whom alsowe have met with before, as onewho since 1807 had taken his turnof preaching in Mr. Smiths shared the fate of William Clowes. in being expelled from the ()Body, and henceforward he wasresolved on sharing bis fortunesin tin- new denomination, Wemeet with many kindly referencesto him in II ugh Bournes Journals :for Richard Bayley was one ofi ho e old companions wit hwhom his last thoughts werepre occupied, and whose shadowyforms seemed to be hovering TALKS CHAPEL. SOURCES AND OKICJIN. 125
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