. The origin and history of the Primitive Methodist Church . t but strong influence. He was induced to take the charge of the class atHarriseahead entirely into his own hands, for Mr. Miller did not believe in variety in•class meeting; so that here, as in other places, variety gave way to uniformity. Danielfurthermore hinted that the prayer meetings too were to be put in a different way byMr. Miller. Hugh Bourne expostulated, but Daniel had no ears to hear; neitherliad others: so the Lord might have said as in Jer. xii. 10—Many pastors havedestroyed my vineyard. The preachers had made Daniel s
. The origin and history of the Primitive Methodist Church . t but strong influence. He was induced to take the charge of the class atHarriseahead entirely into his own hands, for Mr. Miller did not believe in variety in•class meeting; so that here, as in other places, variety gave way to uniformity. Danielfurthermore hinted that the prayer meetings too were to be put in a different way byMr. Miller. Hugh Bourne expostulated, but Daniel had no ears to hear; neitherliad others: so the Lord might have said as in Jer. xii. 10—Many pastors havedestroyed my vineyard. The preachers had made Daniel so unprimitive, that he wasopposed to open-air worship. So revivalism, or as Hugh Bourne and those who were with him would have calledit, primitive Methodism, suffered a reverse at the hands of modern Methodism; andit became a serious inquiry. Would not a camp meeting again raise the cause ?—shallwe not, in short, re-introduce the old tactics in our campaign against sin. Thus wehave now reached the point at which the Harriseahead Revivalists who, with. 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 Methodists.
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