Let piety control and regulate it.

Show your pupils that it makes you amiable, patient, forbearing, benevolent in little things as well as in great things, and your example will co-operate with your instructions, and allure your pupils to walk in the paths which you tread.

But no clearness and faithfulness in religious teaching will atone for the injury which a bad example will effect.

Conduct speaks louder than words, and no persons are more shrewd than the young to discover the hollowness of empty professions, and the heartlessness of mere pretended interest in their good.
I am aware that this book may fall into the hands of some who may take little interest in the subject of this chapter.

To such I may perhaps owe an apology for having thus fully discussed a topic in which only a part of my readers can be supposed to be interested.