Debating societies [ Clubs & Societies / Associational culture ]
… or freethinking and orthodox Anglicans, debating societies also accommodated the views of Catholics and Methodists. Both churches tried to use the societies to proselytize, with more success in the case of Methodists. This state of affairs …
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