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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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lovefeast, but on the amended and moregeneral charge of having taken part in the worship in the kitchen. A final knock-downblow was dealt on the Sunday following, when he was dismissed from his office ofsuperintendent of the school. A trustee entered the chapel while Mr. Steele wasfulfilling his duties and discharged him from his office. He quietly obeyed the ^* ^ ^^^IST^^^t^- id ^ s^U -4^,, ,, ,., j aliy^-yi^ I^sl*- WOLSTANTON CHURCH (jAMES STEELES BURIAL PLACE). injunction and withdrew, turning, as he did so, a tender and sympathetic look onthose whom he was leaving. Recovering from their stupefaction, and helped probablyby that parting look to comprehend what the withdrawal meant, a large number of theteachers and scholars followed their superintendent into the street. Mr. Steele hadnow to pass through the same experience as Mr. Clowes before him, and Avith the sameresult. His counsel both to the members of his classes and the teachers and scholars of SOURCES AND ORIGIN. 109 m^r;^^
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the Sunday school that they shouldlet him go quietly and alone, fell onunwilling ears, and was not takenexcept by a small minority. Therewas a pause, a short period of seeminghesitancy, while Mr. Steele w^as sur-veying the situation and making uphis mind what to do ; so that fora brief while—the space of a fewhours or days at most, there werethe Steelites in addition to the Clowesites and Camp Meetingers.But the period of suspense did notlast long; for under date Friday,April 26thy Bourne notes:—I wasat Tunstall. James Steele preachedin great power. It was a glorioustime. I spent much time in con-versation . . . there is much con-fusion. Mr. Steeles adhesion to thenascent society gave it an elementof strength and, one may even say,a prestige which was of great value.But what was gain to the new societywas a serious loss to the Old MethodistSociety ; nor need we be surprisedthat hereafter efforts should be madeto entice Mr. Steele back into theold fold- The licensed kitchen, it was

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