 He, a self-styled "scientific Calvinist," emerged in November 1869 to chair the Society, which was a broad coalition offering weekly uplift to London's working classes in St. George's Hall, Langham Place, London.However then within months a Christian Evidence Society was formed under the chairmanship of the second Earl of Harrowby.The society swiftly mobilized a phalanx of prelates to give apologetic lectures at the same venue, beginning with a deliverance by the Lord Archbishop of York on "design in nature."