concern to keep everything decent and in order, these learned men were missing the point precisely by missing the heart. Wesley’s contribution, said one writer, “may be compressed into a single sentence. He restored Christianity to its place as a living force in the personal creed of men and in the life of the nation.” Not content with that “single sentence,” the author goes on to note that this was “a change profound and wonderful, carrying in itself the pledge and the secret of a thousand other