“He was still not at all certain that he was doing any good, aside from providing the drug of religious hope to timorous folk frightened of hell-fire and afraid to walk alone.”

— Sinclair Lewis , book Elmer Gantry

Elmer Gantry (1927)

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American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright 1885–1951

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