Welsh Calvinistic Methodism; A Historical Sketch of the Presbyterian Church of Wales (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1884 Excerpt: ... satisfied him, while he hoped that the preacher, by the blessing of God, would be able to do something greater and better inside. But he had a way to compensate himself for these deprivations. The preacher was on a tour, and only took Caergwrle in his way, preaching two or three times a day as he went along. Thomas would follow him from place to place as long as his money held out, and when that was exhausted he would return home and work away at his trade, while waiting for the blissful time when another preacher would pass. But all were not like Thomas the Turner. When he had five-and-twenty shillings in his pocket it was all his own, and he felt in his conscience, when his wealth had so increased, that it was full time for him to start south to look for a preacher, and if he found it all gone by the time he returned, he had only to go to his lathe for more. Those who were not so favourably circumstanced usually made a subscription to enable one of their number to go to Llangeitho against the great monthly gathering, where there would be an abundance of preachers and exhorters, in order to invite some of them to take a tour through portions of the north. This was the custom at Berthengron in Flintshire. The subscription usually amounted to about twenty shillings, and Catherine Owen, the wife of John Owen, who was himself a humble exhorter, was generally the chosen messenger of the Church. With that small sum in her pocket this woman would start on her pilgrimage of upwards of a hundred miles of rough roads and bleak mountains. She made that journey seven times, and on several occasions returned jubilant, having not only heard Rowlands, and enjoyed the delightful feasts of Llangeitho, but having likewise secured promises of visits to the north from as man...