. The origin and history of the Primitive Methodist Church . REV. ROBT. MILLER, * This, it turns out, was his real name, though by local usage it was shortened to Shubotham. 58 PRIMITIVE METHODIST CHURCH. fluctuating fortunes, have been at work since 1800, will try to retrieve the day bygiving body and actuality to what has long been before their minds as an ideal ofreligious enjoyment and a promising method of usefulness. The Revivalists of theseparts will soon be difierentiated as the Camp Meeting Lorenzo Dow and the American Factor. What precipitated their resolve to have a cam
. The origin and history of the Primitive Methodist Church . REV. ROBT. MILLER, * This, it turns out, was his real name, though by local usage it was shortened to Shubotham. 58 PRIMITIVE METHODIST CHURCH. fluctuating fortunes, have been at work since 1800, will try to retrieve the day bygiving body and actuality to what has long been before their minds as an ideal ofreligious enjoyment and a promising method of usefulness. The Revivalists of theseparts will soon be difierentiated as the Camp Meeting Lorenzo Dow and the American Factor. What precipitated their resolve to have a camp meeting as well as pray for one, wasa visit of Lorenzo Dow to the neighbourhood. We have not time to write Dows strange biography, or to describe what hadbeen the influence of his occasional visits tothis part of the country—where his fore-fathers had lived—in fanning the revivalisticflame; nor shall we attempt a sketch of thepersonal appearance and dress of the man,wdiich may best be judged of by the aid ofthe engraver. Suffice it to say—in wordsused elsewhere :— It was the presence andwritings and personal influence of LorenzoDow—unattached Methodist—whom no Con-ference or Bishop could hold or bind—averitable comet in the religious world—whorushed flashing from America to Englandand Ireland and back again thrice over,astonishing and bewildering men—who hada record of labours and privations almostwithout parallel; whom many thought more than half madman and the rest knave,while other
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