most likely to “profess religion” at a sacramental meeting. Stone reported that the “friends of the Confession” responded to the success of the Baptists and Methodists in “drawing away disciples” by boldly preaching the doctrines of the Confession of Faith and using “their most potent arguments in their defence.” In response, the Methodist and Baptist preachers began to preach their distinctive doctrines. Stone claimed that, in the ensuing confessional strife, the “friends of the Confession” were