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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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EDOMINANCE AND ENTERPRISE. 479 respective missions, and both were shut up in Bolsover Round House for preachingabroad. Eight days after, Atterby tells us, he was again taken into custody atTickhill in Yorkshire. As for Gilbert, the first Sabbath of his ministry was made evermemorable to him by his experience in the Round House, where he had neither bednor stiaw, but where God took possession of him—body, soul, and spirit. We have a pretty full journal of Jeremiah Gilberts labour in the mission after May,1820, by which time it had become a circuit; but precise details of the first ninemonths labours are wanting. One early record in his Journals conveys a vivid idea ofthe work that could be crowded into one Sabbath, and by it we gain a glimpse of someSheffield localities associated with our humble beginnings in the hardware city :— Sunday, May ll^th :—At Sheffield. Preached at six oclock in the morning, inYoung Street; a good time. At eight, preached at Water lane, which I suppose
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BOLSOVER CASTLE. to be the wickedest place in Sheffield ; but many appeared to be greatly affectedand came in the evening to the chapel. Preached at half-past ten in the chapel •and at two administered the sacrament of the Lords Supper. It was a solemntime. Preached again in the chapel at six, and in the park at eight. It wasa blessed day to many souls. Eight days after the preceding entry, Jeremiah Gilbert notes that he preacheda funeral sermon in the chapel and afterwards renewed the tickets to three classes.All this indicates that a considerable society had already been established in Sheffield.Eut Gilbert was essentially an itinerant missionary and one of the most devoted andsuccessful the Connexion has ever had. Hence the references to Sheffield are only 480 PRIMITIVE METHODIST CHURCH. occasional. The greater part of his time was taken up with carrying the gospel tovarious towns and villages comprised within the extensive area of the Sheffield Circuit.He visited amongst other p

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