. The origin and history of the primitive Methodist Church . influence emanating from manorial halls and snug rectories? Did persecution instinctively follow the plough, and linger about sleepy cathedral closes, and haunt steady agricultural towns? On the other hand did it flee from the sound of the pick and the whirring of machinery 1 Ample material will be forthcoming before we come to the end of the chapter of persecu-tion, to enable the reader to answerthese questions for himself. Bythat time he may find reason toconclude that there was a closerconnection between mobs andgentlemen than Hug
. The origin and history of the primitive Methodist Church . influence emanating from manorial halls and snug rectories? Did persecution instinctively follow the plough, and linger about sleepy cathedral closes, and haunt steady agricultural towns? On the other hand did it flee from the sound of the pick and the whirring of machinery 1 Ample material will be forthcoming before we come to the end of the chapter of persecu-tion, to enable the reader to answerthese questions for himself. Bythat time he may find reason toconclude that there was a closerconnection between mobs andgentlemen than Hugh Bourneswords may seem to imply. Before the close of this same year—1816, and probably also in August—Sarah Kirkland missioned Ilkestonin Derbyshire, which at that timewas a place inhabited chiefly bycolliers, and noted, we are told,for the poverty and the rough-ness and rudeness of the we read what Herod has tosay of the manners of the peoplein 1816, we cannot but recall thatalmost the same words were usedto describe the condition of the. FIKST IllAIKL—NOW TWO COTTAGES. 230 PRIMITIVE METHOIUST CHURCH. natives of Mow Cop in 1800 before the first revival began. He intimates that heretoo a stranger passing through the place was in danger of being pelted with filth orwith language equally foul. But the missionary was favourably received, and herlabours were in the truest sense remunerative. The gospel worked a reformation inmany a life and home, and even when Herod wrote he could state the pleasing fact thatfew towns within the same time had made greater progress morally and intellectuallythan Ilkeston. Hucknall Torkard, in whose church rest the remains of Lord jByron, was another ofthe places near Nottingham visited by Sarah Kirkland before the close of 1816. Atthe time of her visit there existed much destitution amongst the people, and this wasassociated with widespread discontent and political excitement. Levelling sentimentsfound favouring conditio
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