. The origin and history of the primitive Methodist Church . hisintelligence and goodly presence and geniality win many friends. Thinking of Mansfield, who can forget good JoshuaRouse, wire-worker, model superintendent, logician, andan expert and yet sympathetic examiner of probationers,and a familiar figure at Conferences. So we might go on;but duty calls us to another part of the mission-field, andwe must obey. The Great Revival in Leicestershire, 1818. The progress made by the Connexion in the years 1817-18 was, geographically, not in one direction only. It was not the result of a linear bu
. The origin and history of the primitive Methodist Church . hisintelligence and goodly presence and geniality win many friends. Thinking of Mansfield, who can forget good JoshuaRouse, wire-worker, model superintendent, logician, andan expert and yet sympathetic examiner of probationers,and a familiar figure at Conferences. So we might go on;but duty calls us to another part of the mission-field, andwe must obey. The Great Revival in Leicestershire, 1818. The progress made by the Connexion in the years 1817-18 was, geographically, not in one direction only. It was not the result of a linear but of a centrifugal movement. The Connexion grew as a tree grows; it spread like a series of constantly enlarging water-rings. If you take Nottingham as your centre you will have to keep shifting your circumferential line further and joshua aoi still further hack. Progress does not stop in the east and north because you waul to follow its course in the west and south. It is difficult to describe in words an all-round expansion like this, and yet it must be. THE PERIOD OF CIRCUIT PREDOMINANCE AND ENTERPRISE. 277 conceived if it cannot be written. Therefore, although our attention must now fora time be turned to Leicestershire (with Loughborough as a new centre), we mustremember that progress in the direction we have hitherto been following has notrounded itself off and stopped because we cannot for the time attend to it. Unfortu-nately, the official documents of Nottingham Circuit prior to 1824 are no longeravailable to prove this, and the convenient system of branches was not adopted till 1819 ; yet there is abundant evidence of an incidental though unofficial kind toshow that while Bourne (and for a time Clowes), Benton, Wedgwood, Heath, and otherleaders of the main movement are hard at work in Leicestershire, what may be calleda skirmishing movement is going on in Lincolnshire and elsewhere, which will in duetime prepare the way for an advance on Lincoln, Boston, Sheffield, Ch
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