. The origin and history of the Primitive Methodist Church . tBuilding Committees, as distinct from these, are first provided for in the Conference]\[inutes of 1835. We judge the jjropriety of establishing a Committee of such a kindhad been forced on the attention of the authorities by various warning examples ofrecklessness and mismanagement. When what has hitherto very largely been anevangelistic movement, carried on in the open-air or in houses and hired rooms, beginsto consolidate itself; when it has to acquire property, and to raise and administer fundsfor the maintenance and management o
. The origin and history of the Primitive Methodist Church . tBuilding Committees, as distinct from these, are first provided for in the Conference]\[inutes of 1835. We judge the jjropriety of establishing a Committee of such a kindhad been forced on the attention of the authorities by various warning examples ofrecklessness and mismanagement. When what has hitherto very largely been anevangelistic movement, carried on in the open-air or in houses and hired rooms, beginsto consolidate itself; when it has to acquire property, and to raise and administer fundsfor the maintenance and management of such property,—then the time will soon comewhen the need will be felt for some central, independent, expert authority to overseethis important material side of the united societies work. From an inspection of theMinute Book of the Nottingham District Building Committee, beginning in 1836, it isquite clear that some of the societies and circuits were, in Hugh Bournes phrase,very young in the business of chapel-building, and much needed the guiding MAKKFIELD PRESENT CHAPEL. Occasionally, leave to build would be asked when leave had already been taken; ora proposal would be submitted, satisfactory in most respects, save that it contained not eventhe most distant allusion to the delicate subject of ways and means. Sometimes, theCommittee would be asked to give its sanction to an application jto build that gave noinformation as to the situation, site, or estimated cost of the building proposed to beerected. We are told that in the time of the South Sea Bubble the public were once askedto come forward and liberally to subscribe its capital in favour of A certain project to bemade known afterwards. This was what the ISottingham Building Committee of 1842,composed of T. Morgan, W. Carthy, J. Spencer, J. Barker, and A. Worsnop, at oneof their sederunts were virtually asked to do; and one can conceivethe quiet satisfactionwith which its secretary transcribed and dispatched the
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