Seth P. Langton's experience with a Methodist minister

“We preached in a strange neighborhood where they had never before seen or heard a Mormon. We made our first appointment at a free church, but a Methodist minister who had an appointment about six miles from there, neglected his own meeting to come and prevent us from preaching. He said he would keep us out by the help of the Lord and if he could’nt do it, the neighborhood would help him. Accordingly he preached and we listened to him. He warned the people to be careful who they went to hear, as they might be led away by some delusion, if they were not very careful. After he closed, I arose on the steps outside, and asked if there was any objection to our speaking there and then, to which the preacher replied, this is a Christian church, and this is a Christian people, and I expect to hold the church by law, for we don’t want any but Christians to preach in it. I thanked him, and then asked all who would stop and hear us preach from a log-pile that stood near, to raise their right hands. Nearly every hand was raised, and the clerical gentleman went off perfectly shocked, at seeing those who he had boasted would back him in his violent measures, befriend the objects of his pious wrath.”

— Seth P. Langton, as quoted in The Latter-day Saints' Millennial Star