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From: Thomas Hamm <>
Subject: Re: New Religions
Date: Tue, 1 Jun 1999 11:09:01 -0500 (EST)


>So, many disowned Friends became Methodists. Does anyone have any idea
>why the Methodist church appealed to them?
>Maureen Foster
>Don Cordell wrote:
>>
In nineteenth-century America, the Methodists were the most agressive and
fastest-growing Protestant denomination in the country. They attracted
ex-Quakers just as they attracted many other people.

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