. The origin and history of the Primitive Methodist Church . o large, and it is intended to divide it at the next quarter-day. GeorgeTaylor and I have had several consultations as to the best division. Accordingly, at the March quarterly Meeting the Cheshire Mission became a Branchof Tunstall Circuit. It had on its first plan thirty-three places, for the most part inCheshire, though there were a few in Wales and still more in Shropshire, in whichcounty there was a splendid prospect if only more labourers had been available. As itwas, the staff of labourers consisted of three travelling preache
. The origin and history of the Primitive Methodist Church . o large, and it is intended to divide it at the next quarter-day. GeorgeTaylor and I have had several consultations as to the best division. Accordingly, at the March quarterly Meeting the Cheshire Mission became a Branchof Tunstall Circuit. It had on its first plan thirty-three places, for the most part inCheshire, though there were a few in Wales and still more in Shropshire, in whichcounty there was a splendid prospect if only more labourers had been available. As itwas, the staff of labourers consisted of three travelling preachers—John Garner, JohnPiatt, a native of Faddiley, near Burland, and Thomas Brownsword the boy-preacher —and twenty-three local preachers, two of whom were females. In fact, places werebeing multiplied faster than preachers, so that most of the places had to be contentwith preaching once a day every other Sunday, and once in three or four weeks on theweek-day. * Memoir of the Life and Labours of Mr. John Wedgwood/* By a Layman (Thomas Bateman),1870. LL 2. 516 PRIMITIVE METHODIST CHURCH. So now that Cheshire Mission has become an integral part of Tunstall Circuit itshares the fortunes of the latter. Its preachers are the same as those who are working now here, now there—in other parts of the same unit, at the task of still further enlaro-ing its borders and preparing its branches for circuit independence. Let usglance at some of these Tunstall preachers, and then go on to look at their pioneerlabours on the various extensions of the Tunstall Circuit. Some Enlargers of Tunstall Circuit as reflected in T. Batemans Journals. The already rapid extension of the Tunstall Circuit created a demand for more labourers, which could only be met by pressing into service the young and comparatively inexperienced of both sexes. The critics with a turn for sarcasm,who complained that the circuit was being worked by boys freshfrom the plough, might just as truly have added—and bygirls fres
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