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Acts of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland
… success, so that they have at present the number of 105 schools, at which there are about 4146 scholars, besides that … ministers and other correspondents who have visited these schools, it appears that many are not only taught reading … But the Society having so much to do at home, by the many schools they maintain, which is not by far the half of what …
Acts of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland
… to all Presbyteries to take a watchful inspection of schools within their bounds, and of the character and … Presbyteries to hold Visitations for settling Parochial Schools There was brought into the General Assembly of the … in carrying on the ends of their erection, by settling schools, and employing schoolmasters in the large parishes of …
Acts of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland
… country, religion, and government, to have as many good schools as may be in that part of the kingdom, so as the …
Acts of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland
… opinions. VI. Sess. 9, June 3, 1758.Act anent Parochial Schools. There was transmitted to the General Assembly, from … within the bounds of 39 Presbyteries, where the Society's schools are erected, parochial schools are not yet erected, and of these parishes the …
Acts of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland
… neglected in many parochial and other English and Latin schools, particularly in the cities and towns of this … that all parochial schoolmasters, and other teachers of schools within this Church, shall cause the Holy Bible to be read, as a regular exercise in their several schools, by the children under their care. The General …
Acts of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland
… without any call; erecting in several places Sunday schools, without any countenance from the Presbytery of the … minister or heritors of the parish; committing in those schools the religious instruction of youth to ignorant … civil constitution of the country; and connecting those schools with certain secret meetings, in which, as we are …
Acts of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland
… the Report of the Committee on Vagrant Teachers and Sunday Schools; and the same was given in and read. The General … concerning schoolmasters, whether of parochial schools, or schools of any other description; and it appearing that not a …