"No one publicly advocated the demise of discipline. No Baptist leader arose to call for an end to congregational censures. No theologians argued that discipline was unsound in principle or practice. No "freedom party" arose to quash the the tyranny of the redeemed. It simply faded away, as if Baptists had grown weary of holding one another accountable."

- Greg Wills, in Democratic Religion, on the disappearance of church discipline in the late 19th Century