One of the resources we have in Methodism is the circuit preaching plan, and the now defunct society of Cirplanologists devoted itself to the study of such plans. The late William Leary claimed to have a unique (a word used carefully) Primitive Methodist plan. He featured this plan in the 1996 Cirplanology journal . The present location of the plan is not known,
It is an 1839 April to July plan, the same, in all but one aspect, as other preachers’ plan of the time. The plan itself makes no reference to temperance meetings but is unique in the use of the title ‘TEE-TOTAL.’ No other such plan was known by him.
The background to the Louth circuit was that prior to Rev Adolphus Beckerlegge’s arrival in 1838, the circuit had experienced the radical teetotaller John Stamp who was to be subsequently excluded from ministry partly because of his then unpopular teetotal views.
Leary concludes that Beckerlegge was championing the cause for which Stamp was subsequently expelled.
The plan also features a central silhouette of a person who it is assumed is Rev. Beckerlegge.
David Leese