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