CHAPTER 4.

'PRESERVED BY POWER DIVINE'

There is an interesting note in the Minutes of a Circuit Quarterly Meeting held in Sproxton in June, 1897:- "Mr. John Coy drew the attention of the meeting to the lack of helpers in the South-west side of the Circuit, and generously promised to provide a room for a lay evangelist, and also to subscribe £5 a quarter, or even more, towards his support if the members of the Quarterly Meeting will move in the matter". The outcome was the appointment of a young man from Me1ton whose name was John Gilson Gill. He laboured in the circuit with great acceptance until the Call came for him to enter the Wesleyan Ministry which he adorned with distinction, until he went over to the Anglican Priesthood. Since 1881 The Chapel Trust has been  renewed many times and quite a number of men and women whose names are remembered to this present day are to re found amongst the records: - Thomas C. B. Stockwell, William Stannage, Newton Wyer, Thomas Holmes. C. H. Bartram, A. E. Sawday, Richard Bowes, Louis F. Morley, Francis Goodland, Thomas A. Christian, George T. Wakefield, Thomas Parkes, Walter Strawson, George Brownlow, Robert Arthur Christian, Mary Elizabeth Wakefield, William George Wakefield, John George Braithwaite. AU these played a worthy part in the work and activity of this Church and have now passed to the higher service. From 1923 the Society was under the Leadership of Mr. G. T. Wakefield. He was succeeded in 1954 by Mrs. J. Sentance who also looks after the Sunday School and is Organist every Sunday. Her husband is Trust Treasurer and the Society Steward is Mr. H. W. Stockwell. Electric light was installed in 1950 at the cost of £66. More recently the Church received a legacy of £50 from the will of the late Mr. John W. Wyer.