. The origin and history of the primitive Methodist Church . ful to him, he was told he was not in want. So breakfast to him in prison. , . , . , . ,. T „ , ,, during his incarceration I felt, says he, quite happywhile I prayed and sung and preached to the prisoners. The Muses visited him too,and he wrote some prison-rhymes, which found a place in several early editions of theSmall Hymn Book. Perhaps the first verse of Wedgwoods jingle, as it hasirreverently been called, will satisfy our readers :— At Grantham Cross I did appear,The constables did then draw near;And from the cross they had me
. The origin and history of the primitive Methodist Church . ful to him, he was told he was not in want. So breakfast to him in prison. , . , . , . ,. T „ , ,, during his incarceration I felt, says he, quite happywhile I prayed and sung and preached to the prisoners. The Muses visited him too,and he wrote some prison-rhymes, which found a place in several early editions of theSmall Hymn Book. Perhaps the first verse of Wedgwoods jingle, as it hasirreverently been called, will satisfy our readers :— At Grantham Cross I did appear,The constables did then draw near;And from the cross they had me down,But could not take away my crown. In this cheerful state of mind Wedgwood was visited, amongst others, by SarahKirkland (then labouring in the Vale of Belvoir). She found him happy in God,and rejoicing that he was counted worthy to suffer imprisonment for the truths he had been in durance a little more than a fortnight, he yielded to the solicitationsof Benton, and other of his friends, to come up to the help of the Lord against the s 2. MR. SAMUEL BAYLEY. 260 PRIMITIVE METHODIST CHURCH. mighty. He gave the required bond, and was liberated in time to take part inBuekminster Camp Meeting, August 31st, 1817. Now Clowes, in a sense liberated too,was at this camp meeting ; for when he had heard all Mr. Lockwood had to tell aboutWedgwood, he borrowed the squires horse and made for Buekminster, though it wouldseem he held a service somewhere on the way. One who was present tells how he,with others, had walked fifteen miles—probably from Clipson in Rutlandshire—to bepresent at what was the first camp meeting they had ever seen. All the morning thepeople kept coming up, until there was a vast concourse. He lovingly recalls theprecise features of that out-door temple which then impressed him : The meeting washeld in a fine broad green lane, sheltered by a beautiful high thorn hedge, with thespreading oaks growing thick therein; under its shade hundreds stood. Hen
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