. The origin and history of the primitive Methodist Church. iii. 12, 13: And all the people shouted with a great shout .... andthe noise was heard afar off. This Avas strictly true of the Israelitish prayer ?,•> PKIM1T1VE METHODIST CHURCH. meetings held at Jane Halls, for Hugh Bourne tells how, the door of a house on MowCop happening to stand open, Elizabeth Baddeley, a miners wife, who was given to theuse of profane language, distinctly heard the sound of prayer and praise coming fromHarriseahead a mile and a half off, and was convinced of sin and set out for praying company wer
. The origin and history of the primitive Methodist Church. iii. 12, 13: And all the people shouted with a great shout .... andthe noise was heard afar off. This Avas strictly true of the Israelitish prayer ?,•> PKIM1T1VE METHODIST CHURCH. meetings held at Jane Halls, for Hugh Bourne tells how, the door of a house on MowCop happening to stand open, Elizabeth Baddeley, a miners wife, who was given to theuse of profane language, distinctly heard the sound of prayer and praise coming fromHarriseahead a mile and a half off, and was convinced of sin and set out for praying company were exercising with all their hearts and minds, and with alltheir voices striving to get into faith. H. B. says drily: Any one that coulddistinguish his or her own voice must have had a pretty good ear 1 Yet it would bewrong to describe these lively meetings as lawless. That they could not well he ifHiudi Bourne had anything to do with them. Our rules, says he, were one must keep out of sin, and none were allowed to use improper expressions,*. OLD JANE BALLS HOUSE, BAKRISEAHEAD. and the meeting was doI to continue beyond the hour or the hour and a half at theLongest, lesl they should be unfitted for their morrows labours, and their good be evilupoken of. To the stringency of this lasl regulation we ewe a homely saying of DanielShubotham, which for years men kepi in mind, and is likely to be recalled as often asthe historj of camp meetings shall be written. One nighl when the allotted Lour anda quartei 3eemed .ill too 3hort, and the praying labourers rose from their knees with anappetite for more prayer, and expostulatory voices were heard Would that themeeting bad gone on longer! Why did you break it up so soon . then it was thatDaniel, prophel like, spoke words of wider reference than he himself knew at the to mollify those who felt a- though they had been put off with short-commons, II. Bourne Bhowed them a Bermon oi Mr. Wesleys, thai disallows fondl
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