 This desire included imitating the faith and ascetic practices of early Christians as well as regularly partaking of Holy Communion.High Churchmen were also enthusiastic organizers of voluntary religious societies.Two of the most prominent were the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (founded in London in 1698), which distributed Bibles and other literature and built schools, and the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, which was founded in England in 1701 to facilitate missionary work in British colonies (especially among colonists in North America).