Vol 2, pages 1-100 - My Primitive Methodist Ancestors

28 PRIMITIVE METHODIST CHURCH.
pillar once stood, right on until the days of the Chartist agitation, when the authorities
put their veto on al fresco meetings political or religious at that favourite stand.
The magisterial mind of that epoch could not make subtle distinctions.
It was by lingering at one of these New Cross services when returning from Oldham
REV. T. HINULEY. KACHEL WHITEHEAIJ. MR. NATHANIEL XAYLOK.
Street Wesleyan Chapel, which they attended, that Nathaniel Naylor and his wife fell
in love with the Primitives. They thought it right to join the denomination, and
became active workers and liberal supporters of the Jersey Street and New Islington
societies. The youngest daughter of the house became the wife of Thomas Hindley, so
widely known and respected as a minister in the Manchester District. There are other
names of early workers, that ought to be more than names to us, but space forbids little
more than the mention of them. There were : John Turner, for many years the
courteous, prudent, efficient choir-master ;
Thomas Sharrock, an early Sunday School
superintendent, much beloved, though he had an awe-inspiring presence and the reputation
of knowing more than most ;
W. Williams, Thomas Sugden's successor in the
confectionery business, circuit secretary and afterwards steward, a thoughtful, acceptable
preacher, and a good District and Connexional man, at whose house, in Ancoat's Lane,
ministers and friends from a distance would drop in for rest and talk ;
Samuel Johnson,
a local preacher for many years, a man of wide reading and large outlook, whose
discourses were listened to with interest and profit by many Lancashire congregations
;
Barnabas Parker, Charles Malpas also,
and Job Williams, and Eachel Whitehead,
and John Crompton, and Charles Taylor, who,
in their several spheres, lived the Christian
life and served the interests of Jersey Street
Society.
This brief chronicle of departed worth may
pleasantly end with a reference to good but
eccentric David Bailey, of whose devotion
and oddities tradition still loves to speak.
He would " shut to the door " even of his
MR. 8. JOHNSON.
MR. C. TAYLOR.
shop while he retired for prayer, and so
immersed himself in evangelistic work that his brethren feared his business would
suffer; he was a dealer in earthenware near Shudehill Market, and his superin-