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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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rstand there were quite a score of converts ready to be enrolled as members at theclose of that Michaelmas camp meeting. The first services were held in the house of George Morton, who became the firstcircuit steward; and a chapel was opened in 1822 by Hugh Bourne. This we learn onthe authority of Joseph Middleton, who tells us that, from the time of the PrimitiveMethodists coming to Bradwell, he had generally attended their meetings, and in thissame year, when a youth of.seventeen, joined the society. He soon after entered theranks of the ministry, and was followed by his brother, the present governor of BourneCollege. Joseph Hibbs, John Hallam and John Morton, were also sent forth fromthis circuit. 504 PRIMITIVE METHODIST CHURCH. Joseph IMiddleton kept a full diary, from which we learn that he was born at Smalldale,adjoining Bradwell. Quite excusably for a native of this interesting district, he boastsof the natural wonders to be seen near his birthplace;—Mam Tor, or the Shivering
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FIRST CHAPEL, BRADWELL. Mountain, of the well which ebbs and flows, of the stream which disappears inunknown depths, of the natural caverns which, sparkling with crystals and roofed wittistalactites, look like fairy palaces. It will keej) us in touch with Hugh Bournes earlyfriend to know that these very wonders were looked on admiringly and speculated aboutby Peter Phillips, w^hen traversing this district on foot to attend the Annual Assemblyof his denomination at Sheffield. The outside of the first Bradwell chapel may be judged of by our engraving; but inside, the chapel had its own special distinction, derivedfrom the riches of the adjoining lead-mines. True, the chapelhad no porch or vestibule; its seats were movable formswithout backs, and its floor was unboarded. But for all that,the said floor was out of the common order. According to theveteran, Rev. Jesse Ashworth —who began his long ministryhere—the ground was covered with what was called smallfeith, or spar from the mine

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