. The origin and history of the primitive Methodist Church . lust in the rushand fervour of evangelism. The Clowesite sectionwere the custodians, and in their modest measure theexemplars, of this tradition. The time would comewhen it would be called for. When things were thus in a bad way light andhelp came from the old quarter. Peter Phillips, histried friend, put into Hugh Bournes hand the Journal of Joshua Marsden, in whichhe gave an account of a particular cam]) meeting held near Xew York. Afterstudying this account, Bourne sketched out a plan for conducting camp meetingswith praying servi
. The origin and history of the primitive Methodist Church . lust in the rushand fervour of evangelism. The Clowesite sectionwere the custodians, and in their modest measure theexemplars, of this tradition. The time would comewhen it would be called for. When things were thus in a bad way light andhelp came from the old quarter. Peter Phillips, histried friend, put into Hugh Bournes hand the Journal of Joshua Marsden, in whichhe gave an account of a particular cam]) meeting held near Xew York. Afterstudying this account, Bourne sketched out a plan for conducting camp meetingswith praying services in companies or circles, and sent copies to different placeshoping the system would take. One of these fell into the hands of William Ride,who thereupon determined to hold the Mercaston Camp Meeting, at which Hugh Bournehimself was planned to be present, on this model. The camp meeting duly held• lune 9th, 1816, was a notable success. John Ride, who was afterwards to be co-apostlewith Thomas Russell to Berkshire, began to preach at this camp IKTEK PHILLIPS. John Benton became like a man let loose, and the Lord, by means of theMercaston (amp Meeting, opened out a new line of proceedings ; and it was likea new founding of the Connexion. From the Mercaston Camp Meeting the Lordin His merry set on foot one of the greatest and most extraordinary religiousmovements ever known in England. But let tin sequent lines of our ///Wo/v/ he preserved. John Benton had brokenfrom the Non Mission Law before this. He did not rush from Mercaston CampMeeting to mission Belper: that bad already been done. What he did get at Mercastonwas the call to a wider field of service and a baptism for it. Mercaston Camp Meetingdid not, begin the mighty revival in the .Midlands, but it greatly stimulated it. Itgenerated enthusiasm and lord., and then liberated them, so that Benton and a wider field and entered on new ground. Thus, as we have seen, one eventthat can clearly be traced to
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