I sometimes think of how difficult it must have been for poor Howell Harris, trying to set himself up as a proto-Methodist holy man, but still living with his mother and working out of her house in Trefecca, near Hay-on-Wye on the Welsh border.
It reminds me of the Life of Brian, the mythical Jewish lad born in the stable next to Jesus, whose life was a comic parallel to that of the Messiah, as portrayed in the classic Monty Python film from 1979. I suppose this is what it was like for Howell Harris too:
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