. The origin and history of the Primitive Methodist Church . ses was a Free Gospeller, and that in the 266 PRIMITIVE METHODIST CHURCH. end a serious disruption took place in the society, some of the members joining theWesleyans, others going back into the world, while a mere remnant retained their firstfellowship. For Free Gospellers to cease to be Primitive Methodists in order tobecome Wesleyans was surely a piece of inconsistency as great as that of the man thelate Rev. Thomas Smith, Governor of Elmfield, used to speak of. He left the Primitives indudgeon because the Quarterly Meeting had au
. The origin and history of the Primitive Methodist Church . ses was a Free Gospeller, and that in the 266 PRIMITIVE METHODIST CHURCH. end a serious disruption took place in the society, some of the members joining theWesleyans, others going back into the world, while a mere remnant retained their firstfellowship. For Free Gospellers to cease to be Primitive Methodists in order tobecome Wesleyans was surely a piece of inconsistency as great as that of the man thelate Rev. Thomas Smith, Governor of Elmfield, used to speak of. He left the Primitives indudgeon because the Quarterly Meeting had authorised the purchase of a square ofdruggeting to lie at the side of the preachers bed and keep his feet off the bare boards,and forthwith joined an opulent Church, whose ministers bedroom was laid throughoutwith the best Kidderminster ! But there is some reason to believe that Clowes isblending with his own early recollections of Bingham events of a painful nature whichoccurred some years later—events already sufficiently described. There is no evidence. BINGHAM OLD CHAPEL. to show that anywhere near 1817 a disruption, having Free Gospelism at its root, evertook place. The simple fact that it was at Bingham the first Primitive MethodistChapel in Nottinghamshire was erected and opened in 1818 by no less a person thanLorenzo Dow, is sufficient to show that for some time after Clowes visit a flourishingsociety existed at Bingham. At the same time, it is clear that even in 1817 Cloweswas made aware, in an unmistakable and unpleasant manner, of the seed growing secretlywhich the years would ripen. Clowes tells us he also visited Whatton, Sibthorpe, Thurston, Bottesford, Bulwell,Blidworth, Screveton, Calverton, Oxton, Lambley, and Great Cropwell. At most ofthese places something happened worth chronicling, as was usually the case whereverClowes went. At Screveton he preached in the open air and joined five to the society. THE PERIOD OF CIRCUIT PREDOMINANCE AND ENTERPRISE. 267 A ch
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