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is meant by the word c calm ? ' What is meant by saying" , ' He puts a door on the sea ? ' [ Here we may remark in passing , that children come both to understand ana to relish a figurative expression much sooner than we might naturally be led to imagine . ] When the passage is concluded the child may be asked , Who does all these things of which he has been reading ? And what he thinks of one who can do all these things , and is so wise and so good as to do them ? None of the questions , however , are put in any one form , but varied according" to the nature of the answers received . In nothing has the skill of our monitors been more admired by strangers than in this adaptation /' -Pp . ) 78 , 17 . 9 .
" Alter hnishmg the becond Book the children , besides Scripture , ( which , as will afterwards be seen , is in regular use in all the higher classes , ) read the National School Collection / originally compiled , like all the other books of the series , for the use of this seminary . This compilation consists of Relig ious and Moral Instruction , a selection of Fables , descriptions of Animals , Places , Manners , &c ., Historical Passages , and other useful and interesting information for youth . As the pupils advance in this book , each passage , besides being fully explained in all its bearings upon the subject in question , is subjected to a still more minute analysis than had been practised in the former stages , with the view formerly explained of giving them the full command of their own language , and such general information as the passage may suggest . "—Pp . 191 , 192 .
The reading of the Bible enters into the daily business of the school : " It is not there , as in many other schools , dropt when the children advance a certain length ; neither can they ever boast that they are ' now out of the Bible / In the very highest class of the school , which is most occupied with other studies , the Bible also is by a proper husbandry of time most read . In that class , as well as the one immediately below it , a systematic reading of Scripture has been adopted , which has been found highly beneficial in makiii p- its different parts bear upon and illustrate one another . "—P . 209 . P F
The following conversation will prove that the Bible is here read to some purpose : " As an additional proof of the impression left on the minds of the children from what they have previously read , and their readiness in making its application , we may be pardoned for recording a conversation which occurred in the school since this work was sent to the press . A stranger , ( who seemed
strongly impressed with the opinion that , in order to exalt Revelation , it is necessary to maintain that there is no such thing at all as Natural Religion , ) on occasion of some mention of the ancient philosophers in a passage which our pupils were then reading , asked one of them , a blind boy of ten years of age , * What did their philosophy do for them ? ' The boy returned no answer . ' Did it , ' resumed the examiner , ' lead them to any knowledge of reli g ion ? ' * They had no right knowledge of God . ' 'But could they be said / rejoined the visitor , in a marked tone of disapprobation , * to have any knowledge of God at all ? ' After a moment ' s thought , the child answered ' Yes . ' ' That , ' observed the gentleman to ourselves , * is by no means a right answer . ' Upon which we asked our young pupil whether he had any reason for making this answer , to which he replied * Yes' ' What is it ? ' 'The
Apostle Paul , in the first of the Romans , says , that when they knew God , ' laying an emphasis on these words , * they glorified him not as God . ' This passed in presence of a large company of visitors . Had the gentleman thought proper to press the conversation farther , as we in consequence thought it necessary to do on the following Sunday , he would have been quite satisfied , on the other hand , that our pupils were by no means impressed with any
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Edinburgh Sessional School . 383
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1829, page 383, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2573/page/15/
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