EVANGELICAL ALLIANCE, an association of individual Christians of different denominations formed in London in Aug. 1846, at a conference of over goo clergymen and laymen from all parts of the world, and which has steadily spread throughout Prot estant Christendom. The idea originated in Scotland in the preced ing year, and was intended "to associate and concentrate the strength of an enlightened Protestantism against the encroach ments of popery and Puseyism, and to promote the interests of a scriptural Christianity," as well as to combat religious indifference. The object of the alliance, according to a resolution of the first conference, is "to enable Christians to realize in themselves and to exhibit to others that a living and everlasting union binds all true believers together in the fellowship of the Church." At the same conference the following nine points were adopted as the basis of the alliance : "Evangelical views in regard to the divine inspiration, authority and sufficiency of the Holy Scriptures; the right and duty of private judgment in the interpretation of the Holy Scrip tures ; the unity of the Godhead and the Trinity of persons therein; the utter depravity of human nature in consequence of the Fall; the incarnation of the Son of God, His work of atonement for sinners of mankind, and His mediatorial intercession and reign; the justification of the sinner by faith alone ; the work of the Holy Spirit in the conversion and sanctification of the sinner; the immortality of the soul, the resurrection of the body, the judgment of the world by our Lord Jesus Christ, with the eternal blessedness of the righteous and the eternal punishment of the wicked ; the divine institution of the Christian ministry, and the obligations and perpetuity of the ordinances of Baptism and the Lord's Supper," it being understood, however, (1) that such a summary "is not to be regarded in any formal or ecclesiastical sense as a creed or confession," and (2) that "the selection of certain tenets, with the omission of others, is not to be held as implying that the former constitute the whole body of important truth, or that the latter are unimportant." The general conferences have been occupied with the discussion of the "best methods of counteracting infidelity, Romanism and ritualism, and the dese cration of the Lord's Day," and of furthering the positive objects of the alliance. The latter are sometimes stated as follows : (a) "the world girdled by prayer," a world-wide week of prayer being advocated; (b) "the maintenance of religious liberty throughout the world"; (c) "the relief of persecuted Christians in all parts"; (d) "the manifestation of the unity of all believers and the up holding of the evangelical faith." See D. S. Schaff, article "Evangelical Alliance" in Hastings, Encyclo paedia of Religion and Ethics; A. J. Arnold, History of the Evangelical Alliance (1897) ; the Annual Reports of the British and American branches; the Proceedings of the various General Conferences, espe cially the jubilee in London (1896) ; and the monthly journal Evangelical Christendom.