 To this end they addressed the Lutheran Church of Sweden (1874) and the Anglican Church Missionary Society (1879), but both refused to take care of the schismatics.In 1878 Hardegg and most of the schismatics founded the "Temple Association" (Tempelverein), but after Hardegg's death in the following year the cohesion of its adherents faded.Then envoys of the Evangelical State Church of Prussia's older Provinces successfully proselytised among the schismatics, gaining most of them.