. The origin and history of the Primitive Methodist Church . y of thirty members in the pork-pie town. There is a record in the Loughborough Circuit books relating to Melton,which »oes to show that the first General Missionary Committee, established by enact- * Thomas Puller. THE PERIOD OF CIRCUIT PREDOMINANCE AND ENTERPRISE. 351 ment of the Conference of 1825, was not quite the dead letter it is sometimes thoughtto have been. The Quarterly Meeting of October 1834 resolved:—That applicationbe made to the General Missionary Committee for a donation of £10 to assist us in ourmission at Melton. T
. The origin and history of the Primitive Methodist Church . y of thirty members in the pork-pie town. There is a record in the Loughborough Circuit books relating to Melton,which »oes to show that the first General Missionary Committee, established by enact- * Thomas Puller. THE PERIOD OF CIRCUIT PREDOMINANCE AND ENTERPRISE. 351 ment of the Conference of 1825, was not quite the dead letter it is sometimes thoughtto have been. The Quarterly Meeting of October 1834 resolved:—That applicationbe made to the General Missionary Committee for a donation of £10 to assist us in ourmission at Melton. The application was so far successful that a grant of £6 wasobtained. During the year 1835 societies were formed at Nether Broughton, Clawson,and Frisby, and chapels built at Melton and Scalford. The outlook seemed sopromising that a preacher was put down to Melton-Mowbray, and in 1836 it becamea separate circuit. In 1842 it had 214 members. The Silencing of John events happened in 1818, or soon after, that have all the appearance of being.
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