The evangelical note is formally sounded by the entirety of organized

Protestantism. That is to say, all the great Protestant bodies, in their formal official
confessions, agree in confessing the utter dependence of sinful man upon the grace of God
alone for salvation, and in conceiving this dependence as immediate and direct upon the Holy
Spirit, acting as a person and operating directly on the heart of the sinner. It is the evangelical
note which determines the peculiarity of the piety of the Protestant Churches. The
characteristic feature of this piety is a profound consciousness of intimate personal
communion with God the Saviour, on whom the soul rests with immediate love and trust.
Obviously this piety is individualistic to the core, and depends for its support on an intense
conviction that God the Lord deals with each sinful soul directly and for itself