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The History of the Primitive Methodist Connexion
The History of the Primitive Methodist Connexion Author:John Petty General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1860 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER II. Wore Of God At Harriseaiiead -- Formation Of A Society -- Chapel Built -- Day's Praying Upon Mow -- Camp-meeting Contemplated -- L. Dow'a Visit -- First Camp-meeting Held -- Description Op It By Messrs. Bourne And Clowes. We have previously narrated the conversion of Mr. Hugh Bourne, and his union with the Methodist Society. We must now proceed to detail his religious progress, and the commencement of his eminent usefulness. He did not soon begin to exercise his gifts in public; his natural timidity, increased by the peculiar circumstances of his childhood and youth, operating injuriously, and preventing him for some time from taking any prominent part in religious exercises. He says, " I never prayed in public for a year and a half, or more, after I joined the Society. I was pressed upon to do it at the Burslcm Sunday night prayer-meetings; but at the instant I thought to try, the power of utterance seemed entirely to leave me." But during this time he wisely sought a better acquaintance with Scriptural theology, and made religious subjects the themes of his earnest and prayerful study. Before his conversion he had diligently laboured to acquire a knowledge of vari0ll.4 useful sciences, but from the period of his second birth, and his union with the Methodists, he chiefly studied the important and glorious science of theology. " From this time," he says, " my reading and studies were turned much (though not wholly) from arts, sciences, and general learning, and fixed more fully than before on the doctrines of Divine truth, and on the reading and study of Christian experience." An opening...« less