CHAPTER V.
RELIGIOUS INFLUENCE.
The American mechanic at Paris .-- A Congregational teacher among Quakers .-- Parents have the ultimate right to decide how their children shall be educated.
Agreement in religious opinion in this country .-- Principle which is to guide the teacher on this subject .-- Limits and restrictions to religious influence in school .-- Religious truths which are generally admitted in this country .-- The existence of God .-- Human responsibility .-- Immortality of the soul .-- A revelation .-- Nature of piety .-- Salvation by Christ .-- Teacher to do nothing on this subject but what he may do by the common consent of his employers .-- Reasons for explaining distinctly these limits.
Particular measures proposed .-- Opening exercises .-- Prayer .-- Singing.
-- Direct instruction .-- Mode of giving it .-- Example; arrangement of the Epistles in the New Testament .-- Dialogue .-- Another example; scene in the woods .-- Cautions .-- Affected simplicity of language .-- Evils of it .-- Minute details .-- Example; motives to study .-- Dialogue .-- Mingling religious influence with the direct discipline of the school .-- Fallacious indications of piety .-- Sincerity of the teacher..