The Age of Reason by Harold Nicolson

"Although himself a scholar he [John Wesley] so realised that his message was addressed, not to the sophisticated, but to the simple mind.  'Let me think', he said, 'as a little child!  Let my religion be plain, artless, simple!'" [p.384?]

"Methodism for the working classes, proved a welcome emotional sedative, while it gave to the rich a sense of responsibility and a philanthropic conscience." [p.368]