The fault lay in the fact that they were innovations, so far as the practice of that parish was concerned.
"Hodge and His Masters"
Richard Jefferies
No Churchman questions the wisdom of their innovations now.
"A Short History of the Book of Common Prayer"
William Reed Huntington
A love of change is said to be inherent in human nature; but attacks upon custom-indeed, innovations of all kinds-are usually futile unless very special conditions attend the attempts.
"John Leech, His Life and Work. Vol. 1"
William Powell Frith