It is, of course, difficult to assess the real value of the Protestant and Evangelical victory represented by the defeat of the Revised Prayer Book of 1927/28. Many would assert that it was a major triumph for the maintenance of the Reformed Faith of the Church of England, as by law established, and also for the Book of Common Prayer with its Thirty-nine Articles. Unquestionably, those two White Knights of the political scene, Sir William Joynson-Hicks and Sir Thomas Inskip leave, for all time, an example of what can be done in Parliament by men of commitment prepared to stand up and be counted. The detractors of Evangelicalism, numerous as ever, were quick to write off the victors as ‘Low-Church controversialists’, whilst those determined to follow the Rome-ward path within the Anglican fold were undeterred and even glad about the defeat of the new Prayer Book. All in all and reviewing the years which followed, it must be conceded that the triumph was rather hollow and produced something of a stalemate for Evangelicals. Did it give a dull character to a long period of pietism, a turning inwards in a defensive exercise? Sadly, it is true that, after Bishop Handley Moule of Durham, Bishop Chavasse of Liverpool and Bishop Knox of Manchester, Evangelicals lacked this kind of leadership and their influence overall in the Church was on the wane. They had few intellectual or scholarly minds to their credit, little social concern and a paucity of literature.