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Updated: June 8, 2025

In the churches of England or of Rome, though he sometimes looked wistfully towards the latter, Theophilus Londonderry, with his disabilities of worldly condition, would have found no place to be himself in. His was an organism that could not long have breathed in any rigid organisation. It was the non-establishment, the comparative free-field, of Nonconformity that gave him his chance.

Richard Le Gallienne - The Romance of Zion Chapel [3d ed.]