Ontario Public School History of England : Authorized by the Minister of Education for Ontario for Use in Forms IV and V of the Public Schools . ttention by their meetings for prayerand religious exercises. Soenthusiastic and so methodicalwere they in their habits ofdevotion that they were giventhe nickname of Method-ists. From this earnestband of students spread agreat religious revival whichwas to have a powerful effecton the spiritual and sociallife of the whole two great leaders of themovement were John Wesleyand George Whitfield. Thesemen threw themselves with whole-hearted
Ontario Public School History of England : Authorized by the Minister of Education for Ontario for Use in Forms IV and V of the Public Schools . ttention by their meetings for prayerand religious exercises. Soenthusiastic and so methodicalwere they in their habits ofdevotion that they were giventhe nickname of Method-ists. From this earnestband of students spread agreat religious revival whichwas to have a powerful effecton the spiritual and sociallife of the whole two great leaders of themovement were John Wesleyand George Whitfield. Thesemen threw themselves with whole-hearted devotion into thework of preaching the Gospel to the poor and the outcastof England. They travelled up and down the country,preaching in barns and houses and in the open air,and teaching the truths of the Bible to all who came tolisten. As the bishops opposed this irregular work, theMethodists formed a society of their own, and acceptedthe name given at first in derision. Before the death ofJohn Wesley in 1791, they counted their membership atmore than one hundred thousand. Many of the greathumanitarian movements of the latter part of the. John WEhLEY 1756] THE HOUSE OF HANOVER 221 eighteenth century may be traced to the influence of theMethodist revival. 223. William Pitt and the Seven Tears War, 1756-63.— In spite of the fact that Britain and France had beenengaged in fighting for some time in America and inIndia, it was not until 1756 that war was formallydeclared in Europe. On the one side were arrayed Austria,France, and Russia, and on the other Prussia, GreatBritain, and some of the smaller German states. GreatBritain did not take an active part in the continentalwar, but assisted the Prussians with large sums of money. Great Britain at this time wasbadly prepared for war. Theprime minister, the Duke ofNewcastle, was utterly incompe-tent. He knew and cared moreabout the buying of votes thanabout the management of agreat war. The army was lack-ing in discipline, and unde
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