The origin and history of the Primitive Methodist Church (1906) (14586550000)

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Title: The origin and history of the Primitive Methodist Church
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Kendall, H. B. (Holliday Bickerstaffe), 1844-1919
Subjects: Primitive Methodist Church (Great Britain) Methodists
Publisher: London : E. Dalton
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University



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ere salvage. They very inadequately represent the results ofthe evangelistic work which the Bournes and their helpers had carried on since 1801On this plan there are really only two of Bournes places—Stanley and Ramsor. Thereis so little to show for the unflagging and, we might say prodigious, labour of severalyears that we must conclude either that the labour had proved very unproductive orthat other Churches had reaped the fruit. Of course the latter alternative gives thetrue explanation. It is perfectly clear that if Bourne was cherishing through theseyears of itineracy the ambition to become a church-founder he had chosen the wrongway to gain his end. He had raised up societies at Harriseahead, Norton, Kidsgrove, I 114 PRIMITIVE METHODIST CHURCH. Tean, and Kingsley and these had been taken over by the Methodists. How muchwork, and at what an expenditure of time and toil, he had put into the societies ofthe Quaker or Independent Methodists, and the Society at Kizley that owed its
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existence to Lorenzo Dow ! and yet on the plan for September there is nothing to showfor all this labour; though Kizley will be found on the first printed plan—that of1812. We are quite prepared to learn that James Crawfoot, the missionary whom the SOURCES AND ORIGIN. 115 Bournes engaged, had instructions to counsel those who professed to have received goodunder his labours, to join some other Church. In fact, until the middle of 1810 theBournes and their hel))ers were like men putting their wheat into other mens barns.Their labours were auxiliary to those of other Churches, in large part consistino- ofsupplying preaching services on alternate weeks, as was the case at Ramsor from 1808 to1810. The refusal of the Burslem Circuit to take over Stanley on the condition of aworking arrangement of the kind described; its determination to have all or none,changed all this. What then )irecisely was the significance of this Stanley episode ?The question is a difficult and disputed one and mu