He insisted the church would carry on and added that John Wesley, the 18th century founder of Methodism, which sponsors the site, faced similar abuse.

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His middle name testifies to the extreme Methodism of his mother, which he rebelled against in his 1915 depiction of the evangelist Billy Sunday as a fanatic.

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