ROMANCE OF PRIMITIVE METHODISM.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 879, 16 August 1910, Page 3

ROMANCE OF PRIMITIVE METHODISM.

LECTURE TO-NIGHT

The lecture to be given in the Primitive Methodist Church this evening will be illustrated by a number of fine lantern slides. Many of these have never before been shown to a New Zealand audience. Rosy descriptions of the scenes and characters will be given by the lecturer, the Rev C. A. Sims; Fordhay’s Farm, the Birth-place of Hugh Bourne, His Conversion, Kidsgrove Colliery, Three Historic Seats made by Hugh Bourne, the Famous Mow Cop, the First Camp Meeting, His First Sermon, Jane Hall’s House at Harriscahead, William Clowes, Sinner and Saint, His Old House, the Press Gang, His Prayers (“Bind the Devil”), the First “ Plan,” Early “ Worthies,” Lorenzo Dow (“No Dow, no Mow”), the Wesleyan Conference Decree, the Wreki: the First Pulpit, the First Chapel, the First Church on Mow Cop, Then and Now, Dinah Morris, Where George Eliot got the Original, Women Preachers, What the Lord hath Wrought. Also 50 pictures of the great centenary camp meeting on Mow Cop, “ The Romance of Methodism.” The lecture will commence at 8 p.m., and Mr M. H. Walker will occupy the chair.