. The origin and history of the Primitive Methodist Church . CHURCH. a heart full of its saving energy and power. It was not uncommon then to seenumbers present from East Bridgford, Newton, and other adjacent villages andhamlets ; for the conflict for principle, and the determined retention of the villageby this infant cause of Christ, was noised abroad and brought together sympathisers,scoffers, and the curious. As threats proved powerless on pious Henry Fukes, our modern Obed-Edom,a regular discharge was sent to him, but with no more effect. Then followed anejectment, which was equally unabl
. The origin and history of the Primitive Methodist Church . CHURCH. a heart full of its saving energy and power. It was not uncommon then to seenumbers present from East Bridgford, Newton, and other adjacent villages andhamlets ; for the conflict for principle, and the determined retention of the villageby this infant cause of Christ, was noised abroad and brought together sympathisers,scoffers, and the curious. As threats proved powerless on pious Henry Fukes, our modern Obed-Edom,a regular discharge was sent to him, but with no more effect. Then followed anejectment, which was equally unable to make the desired impression ; but one eveningafterwards, on returning from his labour as a husbandman, he found the spoilers hadpulled down his house, and had turned his pious wife and their furniture on to thehigh road. God, however, provided them both with shelter and a home in the houseof friends ; and although thus plunged into trouble for some time, in the end theysuffered no loss. He overruled this wrath of man and made it praise Him. No sooner. SITE OF WOODWARDS GARDEN, SHELFOED. was the house of our Obed-Edom levelled with the ground than another door wasopened for the Ark of God in the house of Matthew Woodward. His was also a parish house, but it stood within a garden, a few paces from the public street,and was withal a much better fabric. Under its roof we have often worshipped, andfelt it to be the gate of heaven. No plea could be urged about improving the village streets by removing this house,as had been done in the two former cases ; so that the chasing of the Church fromhouse to house was brought to a standstill. But the persecuting spirit now actedwithout a mask—Woodward was threatened and brought before a bench of was of unpolished and stern material, and in reply to the threats of thesehigher powers, said : Mine is a parish house, and if you turn me out of it you mustfind me another ; and as soon as I get into that I shall have the pre
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