Word: orthodox
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Tablet is strictly orthodox. By way of poetry it publishes a commonplace translation of Stabat Mater, to which it gives the following preface: "It is scarcely necessary to state that this beautiful hymn of Benedictus is here translated in deference to its poetical merits and not to its doctrines...
...they be only distant cousins on the mother's side, - played a part almost manual in laying the foundation of the great country in which we live; but those days are past. The state has successively passed through the ordeals of creation and salvation, in the true old orthodox way; fortunes have accumulated; and there are hundreds of men among us now, who, fully impressed with the sense of their social importance and financial security, are determined to uphold their position in a manner that would be acknowledged by the most exacting to be truly gentlemanly...
Vassar immediately took the lead, closely pushed by Ah Sin; at the end of the first mile Harvard was 498th, having passed Wesleyan, - a circumstance which gave rise to much profanity among the members of this usually orthodox University...
...which the Puritanical inhabitants of this little town build their hopes of prosperity in this world and salvation in that which is to come. I shall spare you all this, and merely sketch the experiences of a small party of the unpredestinated, who invaded the hallowed precincts of orthodox doctrine for purposes other than those of historical research or religious study...
People require to be roused spiritually and intellectually by new methods. The old style of preaching which our Puritan forefathers introduced with stiff orthodox sentences and much Latinity would not be received at the present day. It is necessary, as President Jefferson once said, "to cherish the spirit of our people and keep alive their attention." Our teachers must catch this spirit, to be able to infuse new life into their public instruction. They must not talk down to the people; they must elevate the masses by clear logical earnestness; must sustain life by imparting life, and this not with...