Abstract
THE RISE of the evangelical churches in the United States during the first half of the nineteenth century was the religious phase of the social upheaval whose political manifestation was democracy. That the popular political organizations and the popular churches arose from the same source is easy to see. In their respective appeals to constituencies and congregations they even adopted some of the same exhortative techniques: the similarities between the political rally and the camp meeting, for example, are obvious. But what is not so readily appreciated is that if democracy and evangelism in America arose hand in hand, the hands were opposites. For the objective of democracy was mass political emancipation, and an objective of nineteenth century evangelism was mass social submission.
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