A short history of Independent Methodism : a souvenir of the hundredth annual meeting of the Independent Methodist Churches, 1905 . yet reached his nineteenth birthday when the crisiscame in 1796. It was at the end and not at the beginningof his career that he was hailed as founder of the denomina-tion. A title which he himself would have been swift torepudiate was placed upon his grave-stone by loving hands,and from thence has passed into current speech. Yet however much we may recognise the unlikelihoodon the ground of youth, several things seem to indicate PETER PHILLIPS. II that Peter Phil
A short history of Independent Methodism : a souvenir of the hundredth annual meeting of the Independent Methodist Churches, 1905 . yet reached his nineteenth birthday when the crisiscame in 1796. It was at the end and not at the beginningof his career that he was hailed as founder of the denomina-tion. A title which he himself would have been swift torepudiate was placed upon his grave-stone by loving hands,and from thence has passed into current speech. Yet however much we may recognise the unlikelihoodon the ground of youth, several things seem to indicate PETER PHILLIPS. II that Peter Phillips had a unique influence. He had a keenand logical brain and was the first to think out the principleof a Quaker-Methodist Church. The majority found them-selves separated from Methodism and without any clearideas as to their future. It was Peter who laid bare therock foundation of New Testament principle, and taughtthem to build. What is more, he brought to the task atransparent sincerity which disarmed criticism and wonrespect. Half a century of magnificent usefulness madehis influence supreme. Whether the founder of the. HANNAH PHILLIPS. denomination or not he became its patriarch and crowningornament. Let us hope that some day we shall have a worthyrecord of his fruitful and noble life. For the presentreference, one or two hitherto unrecorded facts and incidentsmust suffice. His father, John Phillips, was one of the picturesque figuresof old Warrington. As town crier he displayed every daythe glories of a scarlet coat and velvet breeches, with peculiarity of a pig-tail of plaited hair. His wife was 12 PETER PHILLIPS. a native of Manxland, by name Jane Crane, and Peter wasthe fifth child in a family of twelve. The intemperatehabits of their father made home an unattractive place andleft the children without an education. Sunday schools,however, in those days taught reading and writing, and atan Anglican school, Peter, with an elder brother, John,learned to read
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