The Writer's Desk Book. William Dana Orcutt
Church universal, or when part of a name: e.g., the Church, the First Congregational Church, the Church of Rome; but use lower case when referring to church history.
6. The word Gospel when it refers to a book of the Bible, as the Gospel of John, or {21} the Gospels; but use lower case when referring to the gospel message.
7. Pronouns referring to God or Christ when used in direct address, or whenever the reference might otherwise be mistaken.
8. General biblical terms: e.g., Priestly Code, Apostles’ Creed, Lord’s Prayer, Lord’s Supper, The Prophets, and Major and Minor Prophets, when the collection of prophetical books is intended; but use lower case for the adjectives biblical and scriptural.
9. Names applied to the Evil One, except when used as an expletive, or as a general name for any demon: e.g.,
“When the Devil was sick, the Devil a monk would be;
When the Devil was well, the devil a monk was he.”
10. The word Holy in the Holy place and the Holy of holies.
11. The title of a psalm: e.g., the Twenty-fourth Psalm.
12. Capitalize the following:
Almighty
Authorized Version
Common Version
Creator
Deity
Father
God
Holy Bible
Holy Spirit
Holy Writ
Jehovah
Jesus Christ
King
Logos
Lord
Messiahship
Messiah
Messianic
Passover
Pentecost
Redeemer
Revised Version
Sabbath
Saviour
Scriptures
Son of Man
Son
Spirit
The Trinity
The Virgin Mary
Word
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Do not capitalize:
1. Words like epistle, book (as the book of Ruth), psalm, or psalms when not used distinctively, or psalmist when the author of a single psalm is intended.
2. Words like heaven, heavenly, hell.
3. The words fatherhood and sonship, god when a pagan deity is referred to, temple.
PROPER NAMES
Capitalize:
1. Epithets employed as substitutes for or affixes to proper names: e.g., Peter the Great, the Pretender, etc.
2. The words Pilgrim Fathers and Early Fathers (referring to the Early Church), etc.
3. The word Revolutionary when referring to the Revolution of 1776: e.g., a Revolutionary soldier.
4. The words river, creek, brook, mountain, mine, district, county, channel, when used as a part of a title: e.g., Hudson River, Clear Brook, Rocky Mountains; but use lower case when preceded by the: e.g., the Hudson river, etc.
5. Nouns designating definite geographical portions of the country or divisions of the world: e.g., the North, the South, the West, the Old World; and in the division of the Jewish Commonwealth, the Northern Kingdom, the Southern Kingdom. Also capitalize the adjectival nouns derived from them: e.g., Northerner, Southerner, Oriental, {23} Occidental. Use lower case for adjectives: e.g., He is now in southern California, etc.
6. Abstract ideas or terms when personified; e.g., Pride flaunts herself; Nature gives willingly of her abundance.
7. Names of streets, squares, parks, buildings, etc.: e.g., Beacon Street, Copley Square, Franklin Park, Tremont Building, etc.
8. Abbreviations of names of corporations and firms: e.g., N.Y.C. & H.R.R.R.
9. The abbreviation Co. (Company) in firm or corporation names.
10. The scientific names of divisions, orders, families, and genera in all botanical, geological, or zoölogical copy: e.g., Ichneumon Fly (Thalessa lunator), Reptilia, Vertebrata, etc.
11. The days of the week and the months of the year, but use lower case for the seasons, unless personified or referred to specifically: e.g., It was a bright spring day; but, Spring, beautiful Spring; the Spring of 1911, etc.
12. The popular names of the bodies of the solar system (except sun, moon, stars, earth): e.g., the Dipper, the Milky Way, Venus, etc.
13. In botanical and zoölogical copy, the names of species if derived from proper names or from generic names, but in geological and medical matter use lower case for the names of species, even though derived from proper names: e.g., Clover-root Borer, Hylesinus trifolii, Pterygomatopus schmidti. {24}
14. Capitalize the following:
Articles of Confederation
Bill of Rights
Commonwealth (Cromwell’s)
Commune
Constitution
Crusades
Hundred Years’ War
Inquisition
Magna Charta
Middle Ages
Reformation
Renaissance
Restoration
Revolution of July
Seven Years’ War
Stone Age
Do not capitalize:
1. Words derived from proper names and their derivatives when such words are so familiarly used as to lose the significance and personality of their origin: e.g., fletcherize, macadamize, quixotic, italicize, etc.
2. Nouns and adjectives when they merely fix a point of the compass: e.g., He came from the north, western New York, upper Canada, etc.
3. The words father, mother, mamma, and all other family appellations, except when