...with the remarkable ability of the Methodist preachers to talk convincingly to lower-class audiences "in a plain and familiar manner, which is the only way to do good to the common people."34 Plain-talking public discourse that avoided the airs and graces of the High Church and instead...

...called Methodists hare obtained. Johnson answered, "Sir, it is owing to their expressing thnnst'lvcs in a plain and familiar manner, which is the only...of duty, when it is suited to their congregations — for \vliicli they will lie praised by men of sense. To insist against drunkenness as debasing reason,...

...himself in a dignified manner a Methodist," speaking of their success, said: " Sir, it is owing to their expressing themselves in a plain and familiar...the only way to do good to the common people." And "polished periods and glittering sentences " fly over their heads, " without any impression on their...

...the great success which those called Methodists have obtained. Johnson answered, "Sir, it is owing to their expressing themselves in a plain and familiar manner, which is the only way to do good to the commou people, and which clergymen of gorjius and k-armug ought to do from a principle of duty, when...

...expressing themselves in a plain, familiar manner, which is the way to do good to the common people, a practice for which they will be praised by men of sense." Whether this compliment, deservedly bestowed upon the early Methodist clergy, belongs to the present...

...expressing themselves in a plain, familiar manner, which is the way to do good to the common people, a practice for which they will be praised by men of sense." Whether this compliment, deservedly bestowed upon the early Methodist clergy, belongs to the present...