There aren't many religious movements capable of claiming social impact like the Methodists. Methodism was an evangelical regeneration movement within the Church of England in the early 18th century that spread to the American colonies in the 1760s. In both Britain and America, the original members mostly came from of the poorest and most marginalized social classes. By 1830, the Methodist Episcopal Church had become the largest religious denomination in the United States, despite Methodism dividing into various denominational forms over the years. The most direct successor to the Methodist Episcopal Church, the United Methodist Church, is currently the second largest Protestant church in the country. the United States. Overall, the Methodist family of faiths remains a powerful influence on the country's religious culture. The success and popularity of Methodism comes from two mutually reinforcing factors. First, Methodists learned to foster a range of powerful religious experiences that they placed at the center of their worship. Second, they learned to channel the religious enthusiasm born from these experiences into a tightly structured organization. This combination proved particularly well suited to reaching the new rising class of British industrial workers, who had been largely ignored by the established Church. It also proved effective in evangelizing America's growing frontier population and attracting many people from churches established in the Atlantic coast colonies. John Wesley was born in 1703. He was educated in London and Oxford. Wesley was ordained a deacon in the Church of England in 1725, and then a priest in 1728. Wesley returned to Oxford in 1729 while in the midst of a paper to encourage the Church to re-examine a comfortable position in society and carry knowledge of the Gospel beyond the upper and middle classes to evangelize among the poor. However, rather than assuming that the Church of England would bring evangelical religion to the people, he believed that the people could perhaps evangelize themselves and ultimately transform the establishments of the Church. Wesley wanted to “reform the nation and spread scriptural holiness over the land” (Church, 2014). John Wesley's great ally in this work was his brother Charles, whose influence on Methodism lay mainly in the hymns he wrote for the new movement. Among populations with low literacy skills and at a time when books were scarce, Charles Wesley's hymns became crucial instruments for communicating religious ideas as well as a source of inspiration and community solidarity..