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Old Orthodox, Hallelujah Cox, and Crisis Hopkins

The names of these three belong together, not only because they drank at the same bar (Martin and Horton), but because they interacted so frequently with one another. Old Orthodox and Hallelujah Cox were street preachers. Crisis Hopkins, who wore a high clerical collar, was their nemesis. No sooner than the two missionaries finished their fire and brimstone, Hopkins would mount his own soap-box and preach free-thinking. No one knows if either the preacher or the man of reason made much of an impression on Barbary Coast denizens.

The hell-fire and damnation preachers are gone, friends;
now listen to reason.
Crisis Hopkins