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Page 11 - You shall take especial care, that God Almighty be devoutly and duly served throughout your government, the book of common prayer as by law established, read each sunday, and holy-day, and the blessed sacrament administered according to the rites of the church of England.
Page 80 - Scriptures, without note or comment, or any selections therefrom, from any of the schools provided for by this chapter ; but it shall not be competent for the said board of education to decide what version, if any, of the Holy Scriptures, without note or comment...
Page 21 - Neglect of the Education of Youth, is among the Evils consequent on War. Perhaps there is scarce any Thing more worthy your Attention, than the Revival and Encouragement of Seminaries of Learning...
Page 5 - Whereas, we have deemed it necessary to promote religious worship, and to read to the inhabitants the word of God, to exhort them, to lead them in the ways of the Lord, and console the sick, that an expert person was sent to New Netherland...
Page 66 - No works written professedly to uphold or attack any sect or creed in our country, claiming to be a religious one, shall be tolerated in the school libraries. "2. Standard works on other topics shall not be excluded because they incidentally and indirectly betray the religious opinions of their authors. "3. Works avowedly on other topics, which abound in direct...
Page 97 - ... inequality in the civil and political rights of citizens, which shall have for its basis only their differences of religious belief. The American people came to the work of framing their fundamental laws after centuries of religious oppression and persecution, sometimes by one party or sect and sometimes by another, had taught them the utter futility of all attempts to propagate religious opinions by the rewards, penalties, or terrors of human laws.
Page 11 - God's blessing, be improved; and that, besides, a competent maintenance to be assigned to the minister of each OIthoclox church, a convenient house be built at the common charge for each minister, and a competent proportion of land assigned to him for a glebe and exercise of his industry.
Page 23 - that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a nation with its virtue.' The experiment, at least, is recommended by every sentiment which ennobles human nature. " And the commissioners cannot but hope that that Being who rules the universe in justice and in mercy, who rewards virtue and punishes vice, will most graciously deign to smile benignly on the humble efforts of a people, in a cause purely his own, and that he will manifest this pleasure in the lasting prosperity of our country.
Page 1 - Schools, in which the young shall be properly instructed in the principles of Christian doctrine, shall be instituted, not only in cities but also in towns and country places where heretofore none have existed.
Page 33 - Q. Why is farming the best business ? A. Because it is the most necessary, the most healthy, the most innocent, and most agreeable employment of men. Q. Why is farming the most innocent employment ? A. Because farmers have fewer temptations to be wicked than other men. . . . They have but little dealings with others, so that they have fewer opportunities to cheat than other men. Q. What is the great art of cultivating land to advantage ? A. It consists in raising the greatest quantity of produce...