The Origin And History of the Primitive Methodist Church volume 2
The Origin And History of the Primitive Methodist Church volume 2
H B Holliday Bickerstaffe Kendall
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THIS TABLET WAS wveiLtD B> Sm W. D. PEARSON, BART, M. P. ANHL !6 T * 1897 SPURGEON 8 TABLET IN COLCHESTER CHAPEL. THE PERIOD OF CIRCUIT PREDOMINANCE A. ND ENTERPRISE. 241 much contempt, persist in carrying the light of the gospel amidst the dark parishes of what, but for their instrumentality, would scarcely be Christian England. " Dark parishes they were, indeed, in the 'Thirties, not only in East Anglia, but in many other parts of rural England. While the misguided emissaries of " Capt. Swing... " were burning down farmsteads and destroying machinery, Robert Key and his coadjutors were amongst them, practically doing national police-duty, and doing it without pay or recognition, and what is more, they often accomplished by their village evangelism what police patrols and magistrates were unable to effect. The biographies of the time bear witness to the wide-spread alarm which these agrarian disturbances created. Here, for example, is a reminiscence of the childhood days of J. Ewing Ritchie, spent at Wrentham, in Suffolk : "I can never forget the feeling of terror with which, on those dark and dull winter nights, I looked out of my bedroom window to watch the lurid light flaring up into the black clouds around, which told how wicked men were at their mad work, how fiendish passion had triumphed, how some honest farmer was reduced to ruin, as he saw the efforts of a life of industry consumed by the incendiary's fire.
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