. The origin and history of the Primitive Methodist Church . ILKESTON FIRST CHAPEL—NOW TWO COTTAGES. 230 PRIMITIVE METHODIST CHUKCH. natives of ^fow Cop in 1800 l)efore tlie first revival began. He intimates that heretoo a stranger passing through the place was in danger of being j)elted 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 progr
. The origin and history of the Primitive Methodist Church . ILKESTON FIRST CHAPEL—NOW TWO COTTAGES. 230 PRIMITIVE METHODIST CHUKCH. natives of ^fow Cop in 1800 l)efore tlie first revival began. He intimates that heretoo a stranger passing through the place was in danger of being j)elted 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 Byron, 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 conditions in Hucknall, and flourished as in a hot-bed. All this. HUCKNALL TOKKARD MARKET-PLACE. The place marked X is where our earliest preaching-place was. showed the people sorely needed the gospel, and were fit to receive it; for theirdiscontent had its justification, and hence showed it might be turned into divinediscontent, and then they would be ready to Avelcome the gospel of salvation and hoj» the levelling sentiments that found favour with so many of the people hadbeen adopted as promising deliverance from present evils ; and they who had givenear to an imperfect or false gospel might be glad to exchange it for a better one. Soin this manufacturing village, as in so many other places in the Midlands at this Methodism found and used its opportunity. It did not, in the person of itsmissionary, turn aside to seek a more promising field, for the seemingly unfavourable THE PEKIOU OF CIRCUIT PllEDOMINANCE AND ENTERPRISE. 231
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