in resorting to them, the teacher must be
decided and unbending.

The course above recommended, is not trying lax and inefficient
measures, for a long time, in hopes of their being ultimately
successful, and then, when they are found not to be so, changing the
policy. There should be, through the whole, the tone and manner of
_authority_, not of _persuasion_. The teacher must be a _monarch_, and
while he is gentle and forbearing, always looking on the favorable side
of conduct so far as guilt is concerned, he must have an eagle eye, and
an efficient hand, so far as relates to arresting the evil, and stopping
the consequences. He may slowly and cautiously, and even tenderly
approach a delinquent. He may be several days in gathering around him
the circumstances, of which he is ultimately to avail himself, in
bringing him to submission; but, while he proceeds thus slowly, and
tenderly, he must come with the air of authority and power. The fact
that the teacher bases all his plans, on the idea of his ultimate
authority, in every case, may be perfectly evident to all the pupils,
while he proceeds with moderation and gentleness, in all his specific
measures. Let it be seen, then, that the constitution of your school is
a monarchy, absolute and unlimited,--but let it also be seen, that the
one who holds the power, is himself under the control of moral
principle, in all that he does, and that he endeavors to make the same
moral principle which guides him, go as far as it is possible to make it
go, in the government of his subjects.

CHAPTER V.

RELIGIOUS INFLUENCE.

In consequence of the unexampled religious liberty enjoyed in this
country, for which it is happily distinguished above all other countries
on the globe, there necessarily results a vast variety of religious
sentiment and action. We cannot enjoy the blessings without the
inconveniences of freedom. Where every man is allowed to believe as he
pleases, some will undoubtedly believe wrong, and others will be
divided, by embracing views of a subject which are different, though
perhaps equally consistent with truth. Hence, we have among us, every
shade and every variety of religious opinion, and in many cases,
contention and strife, resulting from hopeless efforts to produce
uniformity.

A stranger who should come among us, would suppose from the tone of our
religious journals, and from the general aspect of society on the
subject of religion, that the whol