. The origin and history of the primitive Methodist Church. quiet but strong influence. He was induced to take the charge of the class atHarriseahead entirely into his own hands, for Mr. Miller did not believe in variety inclass meeting; so that here, as in other places, variety gave way to uniformity. Danielfurthermore hinted that the prayer meetings too were to be put in a different way byMr. Miller. Hugh Bourne expostulated, but Daniel had no ears to hear; neitherhad others: so the Lord might have said as in Jer. xii. 10—Many pastors havedestroyed my vineyard. The preachers had made Daniel
. The origin and history of the primitive Methodist Church. quiet but strong influence. He was induced to take the charge of the class atHarriseahead entirely into his own hands, for Mr. Miller did not believe in variety inclass meeting; so that here, as in other places, variety gave way to uniformity. Danielfurthermore hinted that the prayer meetings too were to be put in a different way byMr. Miller. Hugh Bourne expostulated, but Daniel had no ears to hear; neitherhad others: so the Lord might have said as in Jer. xii. 10—Many pastors havedestroyed my vineyard. The preachers had made Daniel so unprimitive, that he wasopposed to open-air worship. So revivalism, or as Hugh Bourne and those who were with him would have calledit, primitive Methodism, suffered a reverse at the hands of modern Methodism; andit became a serious inquiry, Would not a camp meeting again raise the cause?—shallwe not, in short, re-introduce the old tactics in our campaign against sin. Thus wehave now reached the point at which the Harriseahead Revivalists who, with. REV. EOBT. MILLER. * This, it turns out, was liis real name, though by local usage it was shortened to Shubotham. 58 PRIMITIVE METHODIST CHURCH. fluctuating fortunes, have been at work since 1800, will try to retrieve the day by(riving body and actuality to what has long been before their minds as an ideal ofreligious enjoyment and a promising method of usefulness. The Revivalists of theseparts will soon be differentiated as the Camp Meeting Methodists. Lorenzo Dow and the American Factor. What precipitated their resolve to have a camp meeting as Avell as pray for one, wasa visit of Lorenzo Dow to the neighbourhood. We have not time to write Dows strange biography, or to describe what hadbeen the influence of his occasional visits tothis part of the country—where his fore-fathers had lived—in fanning the revivalisticflame; nor shall we attempt a sketch of thepersonal appearance and dress of the man,which may best be judged
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