That description summarizes the hesitations many Baptists still had about the methods gradually enveloping the churches. The anxious seat gave way to the invitation formula. Evangelists began to call people to come immediately to the front of the congregation and stand with the preacher as an indication of their intention to be saved. Both the deportment of the evangelist and the approvedness of his fruit puzzled, bewildered, frustrated, and sometimes alarmed thoughtful ministers. W. E. Hatcher (1834–1912)