will take kindly, I trust, such advices as a fellow labourer can offer you. They are the rules by which I try to guide myself.

First, I would say, be punctual. When St. Augustin was once asked, What was the chief Christian grace? he answered "humility." What the second? he replied again "humility." And what the third? still "humility." It was the first and the last ingredient of Christian piety. Now I will alter his words and say to a Sunday school teacher; "be punctual; be punctual; be punctual." It is a most important thing. It is due to the clergyman of the school. He depends upon you when once you have undertaken a class, and is put to inconvenience by having to supply your place. Besides, this punctuality carries every thing else with it. If you take care to be at your post a minute or two before prayers, your scholars will be sure to be in their places too; they will have their lesson ready learnt and not depend upon having time to con it over "before teacher comes.' And you will have time before you, and not be tempted to hurry over the lessons, in order to get through them within the hour. And you will so always secure yourself leisure for that grave and quiet religious instruction, which it

is the especial province of Sunday schools to give.

Let your first rule then, be punctuality. If you have any other duties, any claims upon you at home which prevent you attending regularly and punctually, then do not become a Sunday

school teacher.

Secondly, be painstaking. Such religious instruction as you undertake to give is not a thing to be gone through off-hand. It requires preparation beforehand and diligence at the time. Some clergymen assemble their Sunday school teachers once a week, in a catechetical class, in order to go over the Sunday lessons with them, and fit them better for their duties in school. And when you have this advantage, you will of course gladly avail yourself of it, if you possibly can. But at any rate, a Sunday school teacher will make it a practice some evening during the week, to read over the lessons for the ensuing Sunday, and consider what there is in them which he will have to explain to his scholars, and how it is to be explained, and what is the best way of explaining it. And you will naturally ask your clergyman what books he would recommend to you to assist you in such studies. But to sit down to your class without having

considered the lesson beforehand, perhaps not knowing what lesson it is, is a very poor way of teaching children indeed. You are not likely on the moment to hit on the very best explanation that might be given, or you may come upon a passage or an expression which you have never thought about, and feel yourself perhaps quite unable to explain. Or you may not be able to find a reference that would clear up the matter just when you want it. One of the best Sunday school teachers I know, comes into school always with a memorandum of what passages he intends to refer to, and I observe that his scholars notice it and respect him for taking so much pains for them.

But further, you must strive and be as painstaking at your school labours, as you are in preparation for them. You must take pains to make sure whether the children understand what they are learning. Their look, their tone of voice, will generally tell you whether they have got the meaning of it. ingenuity to work, and and that till they do.

And you must set your turn the matter this way

If the point proves hard

of comprehension, or you find their attention flagging, try some illustration, or appropriate anecdote that you can recollect. You will almost

always recover their attention that way. Or another very useful plan is to set them comparing one verse of Scripture with another; St. Luke ii. 52, for instance, with 1 Sam. ii. 26. This occupies the children, and keeps up their interest in their lesson. Or if your class is composed of elder children, it will exercise their minds if you refer them generally to such and such passages of Scripture, and desire them to fix upon the precise expression or verse in it which will explain the matter in hand. Again, it requires pains to put your questions in the best and simplest way, and to graft one question upon another in a natural order. A great deal lies in the tact of the questioner. And this tact comes by practice. If you give yourself to it, you will soon get a facility in questioning, and a power of keeping up the attention of your class by means of it, and it will be quite a pleasure to you to teach, and to look round the little circle of eager faces about you. But this is not a thing that I can give any set of rules for. It would take me beyond the limits of a little paper like the present. I must refer to a small volume by the late Archdeacon Bather, entitled "Hints on the Art of Catechising," which ought to be in every Sunday school teacher's library, and is well worth

seem to be smooth; every one in such a case is for himself; the master rules selfishly, thinking only of his selfish enjoyment; the servant serves selfishly, thinking only of his own interest; there is no oneness under the one roof; the rope is of sand; and the parts of the house, the down-stairs life and the up-stairs life, are as distinct from each other as if they existed in different worlds.

If indeed a household is to be really one, really living as under one roof, really worthy of the name of a family, the master must fill his part as a Christian, and in a Christian spirit must perform his important part. Good masters make good servants. A Christian master infuses his spirit throughout the house; and as he will have to answer on the awful day of Judgment, he is bound for his household's sake to mind heavenly things, and to order his own life according to his Saviour's will. In short, the first step towards a well-ordered house is for the head of the house to be godly himself. Perhaps it may not have struck some masters that they are bound to be religious for their servants' sake; but so it is, if they would give a good account at Christ's coming. All else is of little use, unless there is real godliness seen