The Oxford Methodists : $b Memoirs of the Rev. Messrs. Clayton, Ingham, Gambold, Hervey, and Broughton, with biographical notices of othersTyerman, L. (Luke)
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The Oxford Methodists : $b Memoirs of the Rev. Messrs. Clayton, Ingham, Gambold, Hervey, and Broughton, with biographical notices of others
“_1780. April 17._—I walked to Fulneck, the German settlement.
Mr. Moore showed us the house, chapel, hall, lodging-rooms, the
apartments of the widows, the single men, and single women.
He showed us likewise the workshops of various kinds, with
the shops for grocery, drapery, mercery, hardware, etc., with
which, as well as with bread from their bakehouse, they furnish
the adjacent country. I see not what but the mighty power of
God can hinder them from acquiring millions; as they, 1. Buy
all materials with ready money at the best hand; 2. Have above
a hundred young men, above fifty young women, many widows, and
above a hundred married persons; all of whom are employed from
morning to night, without any intermission, in various kinds of
manufactures, not for journeymen’s wages, but for no wages at
all, save a little very plain food and raiment; as they have,
3. A quick sale for all their goods, and sell them all for
ready money. But can they lay up treasure on earth, and, at the
same time, lay up treasure in heaven?”
This is not the place to write a history of Fulneck; but merely to show
Ingham’s connection with it.
It was about this period (1746), that Ingham and Grimshaw, of Haworth,
became acquainted; and once, and sometimes twice, a year, Grimshaw
preached throughout Ingham’s circuit. The Societies increased rapidly,
and spread, not only in Yorkshire, but also in Westmoreland, Cumberland,
Lancashire, Lincolnshire, Derbyshire, and Cheshire. General meetings of
the preachers and exhorters were held with frequency, several of which
were attended by the Countess of Huntingdon and Lady Margaret Ingham.
Grimshaw invariably attended these meetings, and always preached, never
troubling himself to ask the consent of the minister, or caring whether
he liked it or not. Sometimes the two itinerant clergymen met with
treatment far from pleasant.
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