In this the combination of the conservative and at the same time thoroughly popular spirit of the movement manifested itself.

In divine service the vernacular was substituted for Latin.

New emphasis was placed upon preaching, Bible-reading and hymn-singing.

Mass was no longer incomprehensible, but was an act of worship in which all could intelligently participate; bread and wine were both given to the laity, and those words of the canon implying transubstantiation and sacrifice were omitted.

Marriage was relegated from the rank of a sacrament to that of a civil contract.
Baptism was kept in the old form, even to the detail of exorcizing the evil spirit.