ABSTRACT

Reading the Scriptures in the schools, besides the cultivation of religious know ledge, is attended with another obvious advantage, inaslIlllch as it gives the learners more correct ideas of good reading, in respect to pronUllciation, and laying the stress of the voice on those words that require it, ill order to impress the hearers with a clear sense of what the several sentences imply, as well as the solemn manner in which the Scriptures should always be read. With this view, it will be requisite to select the best readers from amongst the teachers, provided the conductors themselves are not the best, which may sometimes be the case.