. The origin and history of the Primitive Methodist Church . tenance. He was associated with the Society at Talke,and was a man of faith and spiritual power,the memory of whose piety and usefulness isstill fresh and invigorating. * E. McEvoy and J. Boden have incidentallybeen mentioned during the course of thishistory ; f and we catch increasingly frequentglimpses of the former during this Christmas Day, 1810, he, Clowes, andJames Bourne, on returning to Macclesfield,were lost; so they called at an inn andhad a most extraordinary time, the powerof the Lord came over all. About the mids
. The origin and history of the Primitive Methodist Church . tenance. He was associated with the Society at Talke,and was a man of faith and spiritual power,the memory of whose piety and usefulness isstill fresh and invigorating. * E. McEvoy and J. Boden have incidentallybeen mentioned during the course of thishistory ; f and we catch increasingly frequentglimpses of the former during this Christmas Day, 1810, he, Clowes, andJames Bourne, on returning to Macclesfield,were lost; so they called at an inn andhad a most extraordinary time, the powerof the Lord came over all. About the midsummer of 1811 James Marsh comes on the scene. Bourne records how Marsh spoke at Ashmore House, the home of the Dakins, in much power and with wisdom, though he complained of having a short time. So this poor scrap of a plan has on it the names of some good and true men. We have done what little we could to rescue their names from oblivion, and can only regret that so much of their memorial has been carried down by the time-stream, and is now THOMAS ALCOCK. Rudimentary Organisation. July 26th, 1811, and February 13th, 1812, are dates to be noted and remembered inany history of our origins; for by the proceedings of those two days the coping-stoneand name-plate were put on the newly-raised fabric of the denomination. On theformer, we were saved from Eree-Gospelism; on the latter, we got our distinctivedenominational title. Yet the extant records of the meetings held on these two days are brief and bald asthe first telegraphed summary of some important committee. You have the statementof what was done in its most condensed form. All verbiage has been pruned away;there is little by way of preface or explanation. Still what little we have suflfices,especially as we knov/ the proceedings were marked by unanimity, and the conclusionsarrived at nem. con. * Rev. J. W. Chappell. f pp. 103, 109. « 130 PRIMITIVE METHODIST CHURCH. At the meeting held in Mr. Smiths kitchen o
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