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The Teacher

CHAPTER V
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Of course the teacher, in such cases, will be at much greater liberty.

If a Roman Catholic community establish a school, and appoint a Roman Catholic teacher, he may properly, in his intercourse with his scholars, allude, with commendation, to the opinions and practices of that church.
If a college is established by the Methodist denomination, the teacher of that institution may, of course, explain and enforce there the views of that society.

Each teacher is confined only to _those views which are common to the founders and supporters of the particular institution to which he is attached._ I trust the principle which I have been attempting to enforce is fully before the reader's mind, namely, that moral and religious instruction in a school being in a great degree extra-official in its nature, must be carried no farther than the teacher can go with the common consent, either expressed or implied, of those who have founded, and who support his school.

Of course, if those founders forbid it altogether, they have a right to do so, and the teacher must submit.

The only question that can justly arise is whether he will remain in such a situation, or go and seek employment where a door of usefulness, here closed against him, will be opened.


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