. The origin and history of the primitive Methodist Church . effortsof Joseph Liveseyand hiseloq uentco-worker Henry Anderton. N ex tto the cock-pit at Preston, saysEdward Grubb in his Memoirs ofHenry Anderton, the old FriarsGreen Chapel deserves to beassociated with his name as one of the places where he displayed that mighty eloquence that touched all hearts and filled every eye (p. 29). It seems, therefore, that the claim of the seven men of Preston to have been thefirst Total Abstinence Society will have to be surrendered; though the story of theorigin of the word tee-total from Richard Tu
. The origin and history of the primitive Methodist Church . effortsof Joseph Liveseyand hiseloq uentco-worker Henry Anderton. N ex tto the cock-pit at Preston, saysEdward Grubb in his Memoirs ofHenry Anderton, the old FriarsGreen Chapel deserves to beassociated with his name as one of the places where he displayed that mighty eloquence that touched all hearts and filled every eye (p. 29). It seems, therefore, that the claim of the seven men of Preston to have been thefirst Total Abstinence Society will have to be surrendered; though the story of theorigin of the word tee-total from Richard Turners emphatic utterance of the word total has not, as far as we are aware, been disproved. It may have been challenged,but it still holds the field. As now told, however, the true story of the origin of theTotal Abstinence movement should, if anything, prove more interesting to PrimitiveMethodists than the story it displaces, since it takes us back to the very neighbourhoodof our origins, and brings us once more in touch with some worthy people who in the. PAGE FROM ROLL BOOKF THE STOCKTON HEATH SOCIETY,COMMENCING DEC. 23RD, 1830. * The Beginnings of Total , 59, Fleet Street. The Warrington Societies of 1830. Bv Arthur 476 PRIMITIVE METHODIST CHURCH. Connexions infancy were, in Scripture phrase, its nursing fathers and mothers. Itwas for preaching in Friars Green Chapel that W. Crawfoot got into trouble. It was theEatons who helped him financially when he paid his visit to London along with HughBourne, and theirs was the home Clowes pronounced a pilgrims inn and the bcslordered family he had ever seen. This was like the rising of a new star, and its light was brilliant. Such are HughBournes words in speaking of what happened at the Conference of 1831, when theTemperance movement was recognised as making for righteousness and this star did not rise in the east but in the west and, if one may say so, it cameand stood over the spot that owed it
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