Excerpt from Hartford Seminary Record, Vol. 19: Issued Under the Aushices of the Faculty At the next Annual Commencement Hartford Seminary is to celebrate the seventy-fifth anniversary of its founding. For this event careful preparations are being made to render the occasion a worthy one. As a first small contribution to this end the record publishes an Address List of living alumni so far as known. The attention of Alumni is called to this, and they are requested to fill gaps and make corrections so far as possible. It is a difficult matter to keep such a list correct and up to date, especially in view of the present tendency toward short pastorates. One of the frequent complaints respecting so - called conserva tive views in theology is that they are not interesting. We know the positions already, and it is the new that attracts. Professor James is probably not far from right when, in his Pragmatism, he declares that in the sphere of Philosophy of Religion men want something radical, and he squeezes the upholders of a theistic position closely between two antithetic radical views, and then tries to construct a system which shall have the charm of novelty without identifying itself with the radicalness of either of these positions. Whatever else Mr. Chesterton has done in his book entitled Orthodoxy he has succeeded in making orthodoxy interesting by means of his brilliant, and one must confess at times surfeiting, paradoxes. He has contrived to impart to the upholding of orthodox conceptions a most stimu lating quality of real excitement. There is in this a suggestion for thoughtful consideration. The words eclectic, mediating, apologetic are not popular adjectives to hear applied to one. A free rein, a straight course, a logical principle, a guiding star by means of which one arrives in glowing triumph at the goal - these are the things that attract. And yet is there not more excitement in watching Odysseus slip by between Scylla and Charybdis than there would be in seeing him rush head on into the whirlpool. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.