1860 chapel openings and more

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In the 1860 volume of the Primitive Methodist magazine there are exactly 100 reports of  openings, re-openings and foundation stone layings. This total included 43 openings, 43 foundation stone layings and 19 chapel re-openings. It adds up to more than 100 as several chapels appear more than once.

At Scholes in the Huddersfield circuit, each of the two people who laid the foundation stone baptised a child at the same time.

At the opening of Garway Hill chapel in the Hereford circuit, a sermon was preached by Mr.T. Hughes, of Hereford, at Pontrilas railway station, about four miles from the chapel (kindly offered by the station-master, who was present at the celebration tea-meeting).

At Scarborough, the foundation stone ceremony was very short as there were “torrents” of rain.

At Manton near Marlborough, before the chapel was built, Samuel Reeves and Joseph Phelps had been tried for holding a service on the village green.

At Prior’s Hardwick, in working to build the chapel, John Wright “was bruised, torn, and gored by an infuriated cow, and was saved from an untimely and melancholy death by a most striking interposition of Divine Providence. “   There is no end to divine providence.