. Mediæval and modern history . ue Christian living. From their strict and methodical manner of life they were derisivelynicknamed Methodists. This Oxford movementwas the starting point ofa remarkable religious re-vival. John Wesley was theorganizer, Whitefield theorator, and Charles Wesleythe poet of the movement.^They and their helpersreached the neglectedmasses through open-airmeetings. They preachedin the fields, at the streetcorners, beneath the trees,at the great mining effects of their fervidexhortations were often asstartling as were those ofthe appeals of the preachersof the
. Mediæval and modern history . ue Christian living. From their strict and methodical manner of life they were derisivelynicknamed Methodists. This Oxford movementwas the starting point ofa remarkable religious re-vival. John Wesley was theorganizer, Whitefield theorator, and Charles Wesleythe poet of the movement.^They and their helpersreached the neglectedmasses through open-airmeetings. They preachedin the fields, at the streetcorners, beneath the trees,at the great mining effects of their fervidexhortations were often asstartling as were those ofthe appeals of the preachersof the leaders of the revival at first had no thought of estab-lishing a church distinct from the Anglican, but simply aimedat forming within the Established Church a society of earnest,devout workers, somewhat like that of the Christian Endeavorsocieties in our present churches. Their enthusiasm and theiroften extravagant manners, however, offended the staid, coldconservatism of the regular clergy, and they were finally. Fig, 82. John Wesley. (After apainting by G. Roiiiiuy) 1 Charles Wesley wrote over six thousand hymns, many of which are still favoritesin the hymnals of to-day. §483] THE SEVEN YEARS WAR 425 constrained by petty persecution to go out from the establishedorganization and form a church of their own. The revival, like the Puritan movement of the seventeenth cen-tury, left a deep impress upon the life of England. It is duelargely to this movement that in true religious feeling, in socialpurity, in moral earnestness, in humanitarian endeavor theEngland of to-day isseparated by such agulf from the Eng-land of the first twoGeorges. 483. The SevenYears War (nse-1763). Just after themiddle of the centurythere broke out be-tween the French andEnglish colonists inAmerica the so-calledFrench and IndianWar. This strugglebecame blended withwhat is known inEuropean history asthe Seven Years War(sect. 474), and conse-quently it is from theviewpoint both of Europe an
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