. The origin and history of the Primitive Methodist Church . not lost in the rushand fervour of evangelism. The Clowesite sectionwere the custodians, and in their modest measure theexemplars, of this tradition. The time would comewhen it would be called for. When things were thus in a bad way light andhelp came from the old quarter. Peter Phillips, histried friend, put into Hugh Bournes hand the Journal of Joshua Marsden, in whichhe gave an account of a particular camp meeting held near New York. Afterstudying this account, Bourne sketched out a plan for conducting camp meetingswith praying se
. The origin and history of the Primitive Methodist Church . not lost in the rushand fervour of evangelism. The Clowesite sectionwere the custodians, and in their modest measure theexemplars, of this tradition. The time would comewhen it would be called for. When things were thus in a bad way light andhelp came from the old quarter. Peter Phillips, histried friend, put into Hugh Bournes hand the Journal of Joshua Marsden, in whichhe gave an account of a particular camp meeting held near New York. Afterstudying this account, Bourne sketched out a plan for conducting camp meetingswith praying services in companies or circles, and sent copies to different placeshoping the system would take. One of these fell into the hands of William Ride,who thereupon determined to hold the Mercaston Camp Meeting, at which Hugh Bourneliimself was planned to be present, on this model. The camp meeting duly heldJune 9th, 1816, was a notable success. John Ride, who was afterwards to be co-apostlewith Thomas Russell to Berkshire, began to preach at this camp PETER PHILLIPS. John Benton became like a man let loose, and the Lord, by means of theMercaston Camp Meeting, opened out a new line of proceedings; and it was likea new founding of the Connexion. From the Mercaston Camp Meeting the Lordin His mercy set on foot one of the greatest and most extraordinary religiousmovements ever known in England. But let the sequent lines of our History be preserved. John Benton had brokenloose from the Non-Mission Law before this. He did not rush from Mercaston CampMeeting to mission Belper : that had already been done. What he did get at Mercastonwas the call to a wider field of service and a baptism for it. Mercaston Camp Meetingdid not begin the mighty revival in the Midlands, but it greatly stimulated it. Itgenerated enthusiasm and force, and then liberated them, so that Benton and otherssought a wider field and entered on new ground. Thus, as we have seen, one eventthat can clearly be tra
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