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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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appointments should be indicated on the planby a simple asterisk, Mrs. Evans declined the proposal, and she and her husband joinedthe Arminian or Faith Methodists of Derby. But, subsequently, they both returned tothe Church of their youth, and they are both commemorated by tablet in the Chapel atWirksworth, where their last days were usefully and honourably spent. And now let us learn what Hugh Bourne has to say of this remarkable woman andof his association with her. Sunday, June 2bth, 1809:—I led the class in the morning at Wootton. . . . Wewere informed that Betsy Evans, Samuel Evans wife from Derby, would speak atWootton. He also is a local preacher. She began about two oclock. Her voicewas low and hoarse at first from having preached so much the week past andhaving caught several colds; but she got well into the Power. She appears to bevery clear in Scripture doctrines and very ready in the Scripture. She seemed to THE PULPIT FROM WHICH DINAH MORRISUSED TO PREACH. DINAH MORRIS,
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iimmmM VVIRKSWORTH CHAPEL, WHEREDINAH MOJiRIS USED TO WORSHIP AND PREACH. 144 PRIMITIVE METHODIST CHURCH. speak fully in the Spirit; and from the little I saw of her she seems to be as fullydevoted to God as any woman I ever saw. O Lord, bless and establish her. Herhusband also spoke. He appears to be an excellent man. O my Father, bless andkeep him. My brother James then spoke, and then I went up, so that we occupiedmost of the afternoon, and we had, after, a plead with sinners near the ale-house.We had but little persecution, though it was Wake (time). While at Drayton, in Shropshire, on February 12, 1810, he felt an impression togo to Derby to see his friends, and on March 19 and 21, he acted on that impression.Of his interview with the Evans on the former date he says little, but of that whichtook place two days after he speaks more fully, giving the gist of what must surelyhave been imparted after reserve was thawed and the talk had grown close and conti-dential. Now that ninety

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