. The origin and history of the Primitive Methodist Church . HOUSE IN WHICH PRIMITIVE METHODISM COMMENCED ATBROUGHTON—W. NEALs HOUSE. 424 PRIMITIVE METHODIST CHUECH. the roads and lanes vocal with the song of praise. All classes of society wereexcited. On the village-green, in casual intercourse, or among the busy scenes ofthe market, the usual topic was the great revival in Scotter Circuit.* It is a pleasing picture the writer draws of what he himself had seen and known—a picture which almost involuntarily starts the prayer— Haste again, ye days of grace ! Equally pleasing is the biographers
. The origin and history of the Primitive Methodist Church . HOUSE IN WHICH PRIMITIVE METHODISM COMMENCED ATBROUGHTON—W. NEALs HOUSE. 424 PRIMITIVE METHODIST CHUECH. the roads and lanes vocal with the song of praise. All classes of society wereexcited. On the village-green, in casual intercourse, or among the busy scenes ofthe market, the usual topic was the great revival in Scotter Circuit.* It is a pleasing picture the writer draws of what he himself had seen and known—a picture which almost involuntarily starts the prayer— Haste again, ye days of grace ! Equally pleasing is the biographers description of Atkinson Smiths absorption in thisgreat revival. He was happily circumstanced both for furthering and enjoying it,being at the time foreman on a large farm at Messingham, occupied by a Wesleyanlocal preacher who, like himself, was fully in the spirit of the revival. Master and manwould often take the lead in services held in the large farm-kitchen, in the presence. SCOTTER CHURCH. THE RESTING-PLACE OF ATKINSON SMITH. of the numerous children and servants who, in patriarchal style, lived under the sameroof. Once, praise and prayer were still going on, with the blinds drawn and thecandles burning, while the sun was already up and climbing the eastern sky. It wasnothing to them that the struggling angel said, Let me go, the day breaketh. Itmight, break and dawn and shine; they said, We will not let thee go- except thoubless us. When Atkinson Smith travelled in Hull, in 1833, he was known as the youngsanctification preacher. The description was accurate, fastening as it did upon thatfeature of his ministry which distinguished it to the last. The compulsion which gavethis bent to his preaching grew out of a definite outstanding fact in his own this behind him, he might have said, Woe is me if I preach not the full * Life of Atkinson Smith/ by Charles Kendall, 1854, THE PERIOD OF CIRCUIT PREDOMINANCE AND ENTERPRISE. 425 privilege of be
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