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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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. It seems strange that when it was in question to take the London and NorthWestern via Northampton, landowners and graziers should have fought against theproposal, on the ground that the smoke of the passing engine would seriously discolourthe wool of the sheep, and that the continuous rush of the locomotive through themeadows would so disturb the cattle as to interfere with the process of their fattening.So the line was diverted from the course originally marked out for it by the engineers,and was made to pass eight miles or so to the left of Lutterworth. Rugby became Dickens^ Mugby Junction —a noted railway centre, while Lutterworth was left to its bovinesleepiness for a term of years, until the Great Central came along. Lutterworth doesnot seem to have taken to Primitive Methodism much more kindly than to the railway.Its name stands on the Leicester plan of 1827-8 with the letters 0. T. against it;which we conjecture to mean on trial. If so, the trial resulted in failure, for in
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MELTON -MOWBKAT.Showing the Market Place, where the first Open-Air Services were held. 1839, during Mr. Morgans term as superintendent, another attempt was made tomission the town. A camp meeting was held near the spot on which Wyclififes•exhumed bones were burned, and near the Swift Avhich was to convey his ashes intoAvon, Avon into Severn, Severn into the narrow seas, they into the main ocean, so thatthe ashes of Wycliffe became the emblem of his doctrine which now is dispersed allthe world over. ^ A society was formed, and in 1841 a chapel built, but the causeremained feeble, and, after some years, finally flickered out, and Primitive Methodism isnot represented in Lutterworth to-day. Melton-Mowbray was missioned by Loughborough. Though Wedgwood had preachedat Melton in the open-air in 1818, no permanent society was raised until 1834. In theJuly of that year Loughborough sent three local preachers to hold two services in theopen-air, and by the end of the year there was a society

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