The history of Methodism . guided brother, The Brontes, of Haworth 663 she sought the wild flower when a child; and in after years,with a sad heart, but with a purpose strong as the oldest rockaround her, she here communed with the unearthly worldshe had herself created from the scenes presented within thecircle of her own vision—contracted as to its limit, but keenerthan the flash of the serpents eye as to the vividness of itsglance—and from the chaos of her own strange and terribleexperiences. When the Rev. Thomas Akroyd visited Mr. Bronte, in1857, and told him that he was a Methodist minist
The history of Methodism . guided brother, The Brontes, of Haworth 663 she sought the wild flower when a child; and in after years,with a sad heart, but with a purpose strong as the oldest rockaround her, she here communed with the unearthly worldshe had herself created from the scenes presented within thecircle of her own vision—contracted as to its limit, but keenerthan the flash of the serpents eye as to the vividness of itsglance—and from the chaos of her own strange and terribleexperiences. When the Rev. Thomas Akroyd visited Mr. Bronte, in1857, and told him that he was a Methodist minister, theaged vicar replied, much in the spirit of his famous predeces-sor, who cared little for controversy: O, indeed ! A Wes-leyan ! Well, I have a great respect for the Wesleyans. Ihave known several of the ministers of your good men they were; very good men ; and names arenothing to me—I care nothing about names. If we are onlyfighting under the banners of Jehovah-Jesus—thats thegreat thing. 5^. CHAPTER LXX1I The Archbishop of the Methodists and the Coming Church The Perronets of Shoreham.— The Methodist Church.—TheAuthor of a Noble Hymn.—Brave Benjamin Ingham and HisSocieties. ANOTHER parochial clergyman who was a stanch allyof the Wesleys, and their chief counselor for fortyyears, was Vincent Perronet, Vicar of Shoreham,Kent. Charles Wesley called him the Archbishop of theMethodists. He had much in common with John Wesley,who was ten years his junior. Educated at Queens College,Oxford, he became a close student of metaphysics, and soonafter he became a vicar he wrote in defense of Locke againstBishops Butler and Browne. He had heard strange rumors of the Methodists, and re-ceived John Wesley coldly when Henry Piers, Vicar of Bex-ley, brought him to Shoreham in 1744, but the interviewresulted in a lifelong friendship. The vicarage became acongenial home for the evangelists, and in it a room was setapart for Methodist services. Vincent Perrone
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