While he remains, he must honestly and fully submit to the wishes of those in whose hands Providence has placed the ultimate responsibility of training up the children of his school.

It is only for a partial and specific purpose that they are placed under his care.
The religious reader may inquire why I am so anxious to restrain, rather than to urge on, the exercise of religious influence in schools.

"There is far too little," some one will say, "instead of too much, and teachers need to be encouraged and led on in this duty, not to be restrained from it." There is, indeed, far too little religious influence exerted in common schools.

What I have said has been intended to prepare the way for an increase of it.

My view of it is this: If teachers do universally confine themselves to the limits which I have been attempting to define, they may accomplish within these limits a vast amount of good.