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A fixed period for leaving the school (giving fulf permission to remain after that time) operates as a restraint and encouragement upon the better children, and secures a decent dismissal to those who would shortly, by breaking the yoke, separate themselves wholly from all kindly communication with us. The friends of education at Glasgow a few years ago formed an association called—‘The Glasgow young men’s society for religious improvement’—the grand object of which was, by meeting at stated seasons, to keep up the remembrance of their Sabbath-school instruction.