. The origin and history of the primitive Methodist Church . 1 Screveton he preached in the open air and joined five to the society. THE PERIOD OF (JIKOCIT PREDOMINANCE AND ENTEUPRISE. 267 A chapel was erected here in 1840. At Lambley, too, he admitted four to membership,preached in the open air, and speaks of Mr. G. Turner as a succourer of many, and ofme also. At Oxton, while he was speaking, a man was arrested as though struck bya rifle bullet, and would have fallen if friends had not caught him in their arms. Thisman afterwards declared it was one word Clowes uttered that produced this ext
. The origin and history of the primitive Methodist Church . 1 Screveton he preached in the open air and joined five to the society. THE PERIOD OF (JIKOCIT PREDOMINANCE AND ENTEUPRISE. 267 A chapel was erected here in 1840. At Lambley, too, he admitted four to membership,preached in the open air, and speaks of Mr. G. Turner as a succourer of many, and ofme also. At Oxton, while he was speaking, a man was arrested as though struck bya rifle bullet, and would have fallen if friends had not caught him in their arms. Thisman afterwards declared it was one word Clowes uttered that produced this extraordinaryeffect. From the same meeting another went to his home to pass a night of sleeplesswretchedness. He called upon Clowes the next morning, set him on his journey,disburdened his mind as they went on, and then they stopped and prayed togetherby the roadside until the man found peace in believing. Thus it was wherever Cloweswent: so mightily grew the Word and prospered. Newark, the key of the north, was also one of the gains of the Great Revival, and. NEWARK OLD CASTLE. as such its name is found on the plan of February-April, 1818. It marked the latestand farthest acquisition in a direction north-east of Nottingham. Clowes and Wedgwoodboth found their way here at the same time, and both preached at the same hour—theone in Northgate and the other in Millgate. Clowes remarks that his congregationwas not so unruly as Wedgwoods, and that though good was done by the services,much greater results might have followed had houses only been available for theholding of prayer meetings after the open-air preachings. As the missionaries hadnot the use even of a private dwelling at this time, we infer that Clowes must be speakingof a very early, if not of the earliest visit to Newark; and Clowes reference to thepersecution which afterwards showed itself, tends to confirm this view. Whatevermay be the case now, Newark was in former times stiff and staunch in its Toryism. 268 PRIMITIVE
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