. The origin and history of the Primitive Methodist Church . y Mission, and starting and equipping Sunday Schools here and there amongstthe villages; as we see enthusiasm rising, catch the hum of preparation, and feel thatthe religious atmospheie is full of expectation, we may safely prognosticate that whilea good deal is already going on much more will shortly happen. Boylestone has been mentioned. Now Boylestone is only a scattered village of sometwo hundred souls, and yet the new evangel found here congenial soil and gripped proof, see that plain, brick chapel with its three windows,
. The origin and history of the Primitive Methodist Church . y Mission, and starting and equipping Sunday Schools here and there amongstthe villages; as we see enthusiasm rising, catch the hum of preparation, and feel thatthe religious atmospheie is full of expectation, we may safely prognosticate that whilea good deal is already going on much more will shortly happen. Boylestone has been mentioned. Now Boylestone is only a scattered village of sometwo hundred souls, and yet the new evangel found here congenial soil and gripped proof, see that plain, brick chapel with its three windows, the adherents of the newcause built for themselves as early as 1811 ! No denominational name was inscribedon its front, for the good reason that as yet there was no denominational name toinscribe. So 1811 was all the name-plate told, until the primeval chapel was in1846 superseded by a better one. To Boylestone also belongs the distinction of having with Hugh Bournes help begun,on February 27th, 1814, what was probably the first Sunday School in Primitive. MUGGINTON CHURCHYARD. Methodism; and when in 1844 the parish clergyman refused to have at the NationalSchool those children who attended the Primitive Methodist Sunday School, theseBoylestone men said: Very good: then well start a day school of our own—which they did. To make it a free school N. Tunstall and Messrs. Morley becameresponsible for £15 per annum, and Miss Elizabeth Smith of Derby was found willingto do the work for that sum, supplemented as it was by the gifts in kind ofthe appreciative parents. Such an example of public spirit and adherence to principleit is a pleasure to record. Rodsley and Hollington are but two small townships in the parish of Longford, yet 176 PRIMITIVE METHODIST CHURCH. they stand side by side on the plans of this time, and are of some account in our earlyannals. It was in a stream near Rodsley—perhaps Shirley Brook—Clowes found thebody of the old man whom, when visiting a few days
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