All Kinds of Christians 2

John Wesley (the founder of Methodism in the mid-18th century) was an indefatigable travelling missionary: according to reasonably reliable statistics, which of these would most accurately represent his average workload over half a century of ministry?

Chapter 20 of the Acts of the Apostles reports a rather unusual case in which St Paul, during his final night at Troas, brings back to life a young man called Eutychus who has unexpectedly died.
How had his death come about?

The composer Handel had already set a famous version of the story of Saul (the Old Testament king; from a libretto by Charles Jennens, who later proposed Messiah); but St Paul, as in our immediately previous Question, had his life story set to music by a later Anglo-German composer with British royal patronage. St Paul had begun his life as a Jew (Saul of Tarsus) and became, of course, one of the most famous early (or ever) Christian converts; the father of the composer in question had actively renounced Judaism in favour of Christianity. Who was he?

Also in the Acts of the Apostles is the story of St Peter's vision at Caesarea, in which he believed God was telling him that The Way (Christianity as we now know it; he wouldn't yet have recognised that term) should be open to all people, whether or not they happened already to be Jewish first. In what form did this vision appear to Peter?

The Letter of James (in the New Testament) warns believers about, and against, potential lack of self-control with respect to one particular part of the body. He writes:
'A bit in the mouth of a horse can turn the whole animal; a small rudder can turn a ship wherever the pilot wants it to go ... All kinds of animals have been tamed by humankind, yet none of us can ever tame the ( - ) : it is a restless evil, full of deadly poison.'
To which part of the body is he referring?

In the early 15th century, this French girl saw blessed visions and was emboldened to fight (cross-dressed) as a soldier in the wars against English rule, in which she was notably successful on a number of occasions. Eventually, though, she was captured, put through a captors' trial and sentenced to be burned at the stake ~ and all, we believe, before she had probably turned 20 years of age. She is now venerated as a national saint. Who was she?

Revd William Archibald Spooner was a most unusual man. Consider the following details:

He was Warden of New College, Oxford, for over 20 years (1903-24), and as such, the portrait of this little albino man hangs to this day in the college dining hall.

He was the first famous person to suffer from the habit of 'spoonerism' (duly named after him) in his speech: typically an articulatory bungle in which two sounds are pronounced in each other's place, usually with a humorous result, e.g. 'You have hissed all my mystery lectures' (instead of 'missed / history').

These slips, even in an eminent brain, were not confined to pronunciation. There is a story of Spooner seeing his old mother off on a train from Oxford station, where he absent-mindedly kissed the porter goodbye and gave his mother a shilling for having carried the luggage; on another occasion, just after the Great War, he allegedly spotted a familiar face among the people on an Oxford street and said, 'Ah, yes, now, Carruthers: remind me, was it you or your brother that died in the trenches?'.

On the other hand, Spooner was firmly convinced that all members of the College who fought and fell should be commemorated on the wall of the Chapel. A separate memorial was installed for three German New College men who 'having entered into our heritage, returned to fight for their own country'; and letters of strong objection were sent to The Times by critics of such a gesture.

In an age when British children were automatically expected to go at least weekly to church (at greater length and discomfort than today), much store was set on putting the Christian stories and values into readily memorable verse for their use, usually in the form of 'children's hymns' ~ which (though of their period) are, in the best cases, clearly-expressed and enduring models of doctrine. Many a young Christian then and since has grown up with such items as the following, well in the foreground of their formative aural influences. One of these is attributed to the wrong author: which one?

Harry Webb was born in India in 1940 and came in on the emerging British rock scene between Elvis Presley (to whom he was compared) and the Beatles (by whose John Lennon he was hailed as the first worthwhile British [pop/rock] musician). Over more than 60 years in the public eye and ear, he has trodden a careful Christian path through a field all too easily associated with 'sins of worldly excess'.
By what performing name is he better known?

Even well-intentioned, fallible Christians occasionally make mistakes ... 'to err is human; to forgive, divine'. There is a rather lovely consolatory saying from an old bishop, for circumstances where someone has made an unhelpful and probably innocent error of judgement:
'The Kingdom of Heaven won't get built without ... ' (?)