had spoken with clarity and conviction.54 Whatever the occasion this note was there: ‘This message is from God’, he would say,55 and he was full of such phrases as ‘I am absolutely certain’, ‘I make no apology for saying’, ‘this is the only answer’, ‘I do not hesitate to say’, and ‘there is no other hope in the world tonight’.56 Even more effective was the way he scolded his listeners as if to arouse their sense of guilt and foolishness, something picked up by Mati Wyn in The Welshman: ‘The Doctor hurled