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Author: James Norton Dickons Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com ISBN: 9781230029986 Category : Languages : en Pages : 50
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 edition. Excerpt: ...be no complaint about want of funds. The letter of Conference drew forth the following resolution from the Preachers and Leaders: We, whose names are here subscribed being Leaders, do agree to do our utmost to raise from our separate Classes one penny per week at the least from each member upon the average. John Blackburn Wm. Merrill Wm. Dufton John Morten Wm. Whitaker Saml. Gamble Watson Cryer John Frankland Joseph Ackroyd Saly Wilkinson John Brown Ann Feeldin Wm. Midgley Francis Riley Thos. Holmes James Bower John Clayton, Daisy Hill NathanielDracup, Great Horton Thomas White, Manningham John Wilkinson, Little Horton Thomas Ludlam, Foundry Thos. Birkbeck, Cl, t Joseph Fenton, Eccleshill George Scholes, Hdzygel Christr. Thornton, Eccleshill Jonas Barker, el 5-Jonathan Turner, Farsley Moses Swain Joseph Tordoif, Low Moor James Overend, Calverley Abm. Hawgate, Bierley John Lister John Lee, Idle Wm. Child, Greeng-ates George Wright (his X mark), Brownroyd At the Conference of the people called Methodists, at Burslem in 1900, a discussion took place as to keeping a church roll of the members. It appears to have escaped attention that at an early period of Methodism catalogues of the Societies were directed to be kept in the several Circuits of the Connexion. The first of this kind in the records of the Bradford Circuit was for the year 1781. Mr. Stamp says it was "in the hand writing of Mr. Mather. The document is interestingly minute, giving in addition to the names of the members, their religious state--whether " seekers of salvation " or "justified " persons, or professin to be made " perfect in love "--the offices sustained in t eir connection with the Society, their worldly occupation, and...