. The origin and history of the Primitive Methodist Church . me to join their body; but 1 observed I could do nothing as yet, but wait to lay my case fully before theLord, for Him to direct me in my providential way. But this was not the end: only the beginning. More stringent measures were tofollow. Possibly, had W. Clowes forsworn his old camp meeting companions and h2 100 PRIMITIVE METHODIST CHUllCH. become mute as a Trappist monk, instead of exhorting whenever and wherever hecould during the next three months, he might have been forgiven and is much more likely, however, that
. The origin and history of the Primitive Methodist Church . me to join their body; but 1 observed I could do nothing as yet, but wait to lay my case fully before theLord, for Him to direct me in my providential way. But this was not the end: only the beginning. More stringent measures were tofollow. Possibly, had W. Clowes forsworn his old camp meeting companions and h2 100 PRIMITIVE METHODIST CHUllCH. become mute as a Trappist monk, instead of exhorting whenever and wherever hecould during the next three months, he might have been forgiven and is much more likely, however, that the inevitable happened; that what we havel,ong foreseen would take place, did take place; that the authorities deemed that thetime had come to purge the Church of the virus of Revivalism before the whole bodyshould be infected with the distemper, and now that a change of preachers had takenplace and a strict disciplinarian was at the head of affairs, the time was thoughtopportune for effecting the purgation. It was this wider question, we will charitably. ?REfERENCES. I TUN5TALLCHURCH CHAPtL;l«l£ 2. THE VICARACit. 16. .?-?..• I5£0-I534-I8fe0- 3 6REEN6ATt5(nDRi) 17. ~ - - SCHOOL:I5M-IV6- 4. SWAN INN. I H ANDCXI\S HOUSt AND SHOP. 5. HEATHS WORKS &C«6 DEANS House. £I . JAMES STEEIS H0U5Ea. JOSEPH SMITHS HOUSE. 2Z- CLOWES HOUSE. 9 SMITHS STABLES. tS. E MEVOYS HOUSE. 10 THE WINDMILL11. WE3LEYANchapel: « . - . • - • OLD MANOR MOUSE14 D? DAVENPORTS HOUSE r^ PLAN OF TUNSTALL, 1811. continue to believe, that was really at the bottomTof the Tunstall troubles and not thesingle question of camp meetings. To our founders, Primitive Methodism meant morethan camp meetings, and to those who exercised discipline on our founders, campmeetings were only the last most pronounced symptom of that Revivalism, the veryname of which was as distasteful to many at th
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