. The origin and history of the Primitive Methodist Church . ll. She championed the Sundaymorning prayer meetings, and got the preacher there by having first invited him tobreakfast—in this showing her womanly tact as well as zeal. She was strong for theSunday evening procession round the village, at which it was usual for the last weeksconverts to take a prominent part, so that the procession assumed something of thecharacter of a triumphal one. We think of Pauls allusion to himself as a willingcaptive swelUng the triumphal progress of the victor Christ, as we see Dinah and thepreacher at the
. The origin and history of the Primitive Methodist Church . ll. She championed the Sundaymorning prayer meetings, and got the preacher there by having first invited him tobreakfast—in this showing her womanly tact as well as zeal. She was strong for theSunday evening procession round the village, at which it was usual for the last weeksconverts to take a prominent part, so that the procession assumed something of thecharacter of a triumphal one. We think of Pauls allusion to himself as a willingcaptive swelUng the triumphal progress of the victor Christ, as we see Dinah and thepreacher at the head of the procession. They have got last Sabbaths convert betweenthem—a poor reclaimed drunkard who happened to stray into the service. He, poorsoul, goes along with streaming eyes and hands held aloft, while from Dinahs lips therecomes forth every now and again her favourite ejaculation, Bless Him ! Bless Him ! As the procession moves along, even the innkeepers wives look on sympathetically as- THE PERIOD OF CIRCUIT PREDOMINANCE AND ENTERPRISE. 247. DINAH MAUL AND ELIZA RICHARDSON. they see one who had been a terror to them when maddened with drink now sochanged. Tradition loves to tell how Dinah used to pray and sing as few could, andgoes on to speak of her as the efficient class-leader and a famous directress of penitents. When people were in spiritual dis-tress, still more when life was ebbing,the word would be, Send forDinah. We need no higher tributethan this to the reality of herreligious experience and her skill asa physician of souls. Mark themwhom the dying want to have nearthem. In the sincere last momentsof life it is the wise virgins—theythat have oil in their lamps—whosepresence is sought. Dinah had her successor. ElizaRichardson, though born in oneof the four poor labourers cottagesat the top of Trent Lane, was in the succession of the saints, and how this wasbrought about we learn from her own words, dictated a short time before death to herdaughter:
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