Teach. Good morning, my boys; how do you do, this fine morning?

Eld.  B. Good morning, sir; we are well, I thank you.

Teach. You are in good season this morning, and I am glad to see that you are.  It is so much better to be before our time, than to be a little late.  We get along so much better with the business of the school, and have time to converse together.  Besides, to be in school at the opening of the exercises, shows that you value and wish to improve its privileges.

Eld.  B. We were talking about the school, and why we go there.  I told my brother that I went because I like to go.  Will you please to tell us the advantages of attendance on the Sabbath school?

Teach. I will, my dear boys, so far as I can.  It is well to know what we are doing, how we are accomplishing our work, and what is to be the result of our labors.

Eld.  B. I am very often asked what I learn at the Sabbath school, and I sometimes answer that I learn what there is in the Bible, and that my lessons are subjects derived principally from that book.

Teach. You answer rightly so far.  You might add, also, that you learn by the example of others.  Do you see punctuality?  You will learn to be punctual.  Do you see system in the arrangement of the school, in the method of instruction, in the library department, and in the general discipline of the school?  You will be orderly and correct in your deportment.

Eld.  B. As I am almost old enough to be a teacher, and desire to take a class as soon as I am wanted, I should like to know the best way to make my scholars interested in their studies, so that they will attend and be correct with their lessons.

Teach. It is often the case that children feel no interest or pleasure in the school, because they do not understand its object.  They may recite well, so far as to repeat the words of the lesson, yet if it be above their capacity, they will not be benefited.

Eld.  B. This has been the case with me sometimes.  After I had recited my lesson correctly by the book, I have felt that I did not know much about it, and did not understand what I had learned to repeat.

Teach.  It is of great importance in teaching that the subject should be presented to the pupil in the simplest form possible, that he may be profited by his instructions.  I read an anecdote the other day which illustrates this matter, and I will repeat it to you.  “It is related of Dr. Green, of Philadelphia, that in early life he was one day returning from the services of the sanctuary, and was accosted by a woman in the humble walks of life.  She found difficulty in understanding him, and took the liberty of giving her youthful pastor a hint.  ’Mr. Green,’ says she ‘what do you think is the great duty of the shepherd?’ ‘No doubt, to feed the flock, madam,’ was the reply.