of faith, as having been achieved by his atoning death on the cross. And there is an explicit avowal of the responsibility of the believer to take the gospel to the hitherto unconverted. Evangelicalism typically chose to give prominence to conversion, the Bible, the cross and missionary activity. Nor did these features disappear during the second half of the nineteenth century. Although (as we shall see) some of them faded in certain quarters and all of them underwent unconscious change and deliberate