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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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proposal which may save a city —a nation ! A single hair, appHed to a flyer that has other wheels depending on it, ma3reradicate an oak, or pull down a house. 28 PRIMITIVE METHODIST CHURCH. The Harriseahead Kevivalists and Some of Their Methods.In the good old town of Driffield, in Yorkshire, there is a clear chalk-stream whichbears, and doubtless for more than a thousand years has borne, the name of Water-forlorns —the issuing forth of the water. AYe think of -this graphic and appropriatenam.e as we take note of the revival of religion that followed and was largely the resultof Daniel Shubothams conversion. In that morally dry and sterile region, Godsprophetic Word had its fulfilment:— In the wilderness shall waters break out, andstreams in the desert. Now and onwards Mow Cop was to be, in a double sense, thebirthplace of streams. In a natural sense it had long been so ; for on Mow, as on anyother part of Englands Great Divide, the presence of running water is distinctly felt.
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THE WATER-FORLORNS, DRIFFIELD. * A tricklet here at the bottom of a crag, or a trickle there from the top of it, is alwaysmaking one think whether this is one of the sources of the Trent, or rootlets of Mersey,or beginnings of distant Severn. Thoughts similar to these, though relating to higherthings, occur to us as we watch the progress of the revival that broke out atHarriseahead like a stream from the well-head. That time of revival may belong to the day of small things, but the small things are beginnings which, like the rillstrickling down the sides of Mow, are destined to last and go far. Knowing what theywill become we cannot despise the day of small things. Mow has had its part toplay in the wondrous hydraulics of Grace as well as Nature. It may be but a coincidence,but whether or not, it is worth noting that Primitive Methodism and the river Trent* Euskin : Prseterita i. ix. The quotation is adapted. SOURCES AND OIUGIN. 29 W^ii.-^ -1

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