. The origin and history of the Primitive Methodist Church . usand families;and through the blessingof God, 1 feel more strongto labour than when Ifirst began, which Iattribute in a greatmeasure to total abstin-ence from intoxicatingdrinks, and the blessingof Almighty God. That part of this roseatereport which relates tochapel enterprise setsforth a prosperity largelyfictitious and radicallyunsound, as after eventssoon showed. Some ofthese * sixteen chapels,etc., were built withoutmoney—or what amount-ed to the same thing—with other peoplesmoney; some had no titledeeds or legal trustees,and th
. The origin and history of the Primitive Methodist Church . usand families;and through the blessingof God, 1 feel more strongto labour than when Ifirst began, which Iattribute in a greatmeasure to total abstin-ence from intoxicatingdrinks, and the blessingof Almighty God. That part of this roseatereport which relates tochapel enterprise setsforth a prosperity largelyfictitious and radicallyunsound, as after eventssoon showed. Some ofthese * sixteen chapels,etc., were built withoutmoney—or what amount-ed to the same thing—with other peoplesmoney; some had no titledeeds or legal trustees,and the inevitable day ofALFORD CHAPEL (PRESENT). rcckoning soou camc. It was well for Louth Circuit that at this critical time it had connected with itsome men of substance and tried loyalty such as John Maltby and William latter, especially, did much to relieve the circuit from its embarrassment. Inhis unostentatious way Mr. Byron rendered, at various times, many valuableservices to the Connexion. He and Mr. J. Maltby were joint Treasurers of the. THE PERIOD OF CIRCUIT PREDOMINANCE AND ENTERPRISE. 453 General Missionary Fund from January 1856 to 1862. He was elected a permanentmember of Conference, and at the Yarmouth Conference of 1872—the last he wasprivileged to attend—he and his excellent lady received the thanks of the
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