Why should they?
What are schools for?
but to form the virtuous character--the being who can command self control--the orderly character, the good citizen, and, the being who fears and loves God.

Ends less than these, cannot be worthy of the efforts of the philanthropist and the truly religious man.
There is another idea which has long been in my mind, and which I hope some day to see carried into practice, viz., a Religious Service adapted for children, in our various places of worship.

No accurate observer of the young in churches during divine service, can have failed to witness the inattention of the numbers of children who are assembled on such occasions.

The service is too long and inappropriate for them, as is also the sermon.

It is addressed to adults, and sometimes the terms used by the preacher, is Greek to half the adults, in agricultural districts.