the Lord in the air in the ‘rapture’ before the great tribulation, which in turn would end with the second advent which would initiate the millennium. Darby was more successful in propagating his views in the USA. Dispensationalism became widely known through the annual Niagara Bible Conferences from 1883 to 1900 and was taught in the notes of the widely influential Scofield Bible (1909). Postmillennialism continued to influence the wider evangelical movement, although the watchword of the Student